Catholic Social Services hosts its annual World Refugee Day celebration on Saturday, June 11, 4-6 p.m., at Clark Middle School in Anchorage. World Refugee Day is an annual international celebration established by the UN to celebrate the positive contributions of refugees worldwide.
Teens from around Alaska are participating in the annual Alaska Catholic Youth Conference, which runs June 6-9 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral and Lumen Christi High School in Anchorage. This year’s theme is “Boundless Mercy.”
Seminarian Spencer Hodgson participated in the Mass of Candidacy with Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz on June 1 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Anchorage. This was the moment when he formally and publically declared before the archbishop his desire to become a candidate for the sacrament of holy orders.
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The following is a list of news briefs and upcoming events around the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
Below is a list of liturgies and public events which are on Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz’s calendar for the month of June.
Seminarian Spencer Hodgson, who has been in formation since 2014 to become a priest for the Anchorage Archdiocese, will take a pivotal step in his journey tonight, June 1, when he participates in the Mass of Candidacy with Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz at 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Anchorage.
She served in parishes and day homes in California until 1954, when she went to Hawaii. She remained there serving in parishes and missions for 22 years before moving to Alaska where she worked in parishes and missions of Sitka until 1983. She then took time to take a clinical pastoral education program. Returning to Alaska in 1985, Sister Dutra spent the next 20 years in spiritual care in various areas of the Providence Health System in Anchorage.
On May 6 at Holy Family Cathedral Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz ordained David Van Tuyl as a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of Anchorage. Read the full story of his journey in the upcoming June issue of the Catholic Anchor.
A presentation on the alleged relics of Christ will take place Monday, May 16, at Heritage Place in Soldotna. Presented by local historian and former U.S. Senate candidate Bob Bird, who has studied the Shroud of Turin extensively, the talk will examine the scientific and historical evidence for the existence of Christ’s relics.