CatholicAnchor.org On Dec. 8, the Knights of Columbus will host the annual National Knight of Prayer for Life from 8 p.m.-12 a.m., at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral. The four-hour period of prayer and eucharistic adoration will take place in the Guadalupe Chapel following the 7 p.m. Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass. Each hour involves special…
A memorial Mass for Dominican priest Father Paul Scanlon will be held at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage on Saturday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m. The Mass will be bilingual.
Father Scanlon who had a major hand in establishing Dominican friars in Anchorage, died on Nov. 19 of respiratory failure in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 82. Earlier this year he was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease.
Here is a roundup of upcoming Advent and Christmas events from across the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska.
Father Thomas Weise, a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Juneau, remains hospitalized in San Luis Obispo, California following a life-threatening cardiac event that he suffered on Nov. 25 while visiting family. The 46-year-old Father Weise was ordained a priest for the Juneau Diocese in 2002.