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Joseph Patton Bailey, Jr.

SALT LAKE CITY — Joseph Patton Bailey, Jr., 91, died Jan. 17 at his home. He was a member of Saint Ambrose Parish.

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Janet Hamilton Pigott

SALT LAKE CITY — Janet Hamilton "Nana" Pigott, 90, died Jan. 26.

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Adults come fully into the Church through RCIA

DRAPER — The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a process of preparing the unbaptized and baptized members of other Christian churches who wish to become Catholics.

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Sister Gloria Olguín retires after 66 years of service

OGDEN — "All I ask is for you to say a prayer for me. The Lord understands," said Franciscan Sister Gloria Olguín at her retirement reception at Ogden Regional Medical Center March 5.

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Consider participating in Utah's caucuses

SALT LAKE CITY — Do you find yourself talking back to the car radio as you listen to the news? Are you tempted to throw things at the television as you see reports of various antics of members of the Utah State Legislature? Dee Rowland, government liaison for the Diocese of Salt Lake City doesn’t want you to wait for the November election to do something about it. Utah’s election cycle begins this month with candidate filing, followed by the party caucuses. These are sometimes referred to as neighborhood mass meetings or voting precinct caucuses.

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Bishop Wester visits St. John the Baptist Elementary School

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Father Henry Piacitelli dies at 89

LAKE CITY — Vincentian Father Henry J. Piacitelli, a native of Sunnyside, Utah, died March 7, 2008, in St. Louis, Mo. He served in the Diocese of Salt Lake City as a hospital chaplain, and as parochial vicar at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. After his retirement in 1995, he served as pastoral administrator at St. Florence Mission, Huntsville. In1997, he returned to the Cathedral of the Madeleine, serving as chaplain for LDS Hospital and celebrating Sunday liturgies for the Carmelites. >>>

Cathedral of the Madeleine rich in Christian symbols

SALT LAKE CITY — It would take a book of considerable length to do a full study of the hundreds of Christian symbols in the Cathedral of the Madeleine – in its Stations of the Cross, its murals, its stained glass windows, its statuary, and its woodwork. At the request of the Intermountain Catholic, retired Salt Lake Tribune photographer Deacon Lynn Johnson took his camera in search of symbols particularly pertaining to Easter and the Eucharist. Some of the elements he found grace this special Easter issue of the Intermountain Catholic, from its front cover with the risen Christ, a detail from a stained glass window, to our Easter section cover, the stained glass image of the risen Christ with a shovel as he came upon Mary Magdalene weeping in the garden. ("She though it was the gardener." Jn: 20)

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?I am the Alpha and the Omega... the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty' Rev. 5: 1-8

SALT LAKE CITY — The Most Reverend John C. Wester, bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, welcomed more than 900 people to the Cathedral of the Madeleine March 13 for the annual Chrism Mass. A deeply symbolic and profound liturgy in which all three oils used in sacraments throughout the diocese for a year are blessed, the Chrism Mass is also the setting in which all priests in service to the diocese, all religious sisters and brothers, and all laity renew their commitments to the diocese in the person of the bishop.

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