FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
WEEK 4 OF ORDINARY TIME
Prudence Is Indeed A Virtue
One of the things I’ve discovered about getting older is that I tend to be more cautious in carrying out everyday activities. When unloading groceries from the car to the kitchen, I carry just one bag at a time, instead of two or three. When walking the dog early on a dark, winter’s morn, I’m super cautious about black ice on the driveway. Going up and down the stairs I always hold onto the handrail. And before going to bed at night, I double and triple check to be sure that the doors are locked and the stove is turned off.


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Local charity brings parishes and Salve Regina University together to fight hunger in Rwanda
By DANIEL J. HOLMES, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent
NEWPORT/LITTLE COMPTON — Tradition has bestowed upon the humble tilapia the moniker of “St. Peter’s fish,” a nickname derived from the passage in Matthew’s Gospel where Jesus instructs Simon Peter to pay the Temple tax with a coin miraculously recovered from a fish’s mouth. Although their tilapia may not have mouths full of money, the organizers of the Rwandan Aquaponics Network — a new nonprofit created through a collaboration between local parishes and Salve Regina University — hope that their fish might have something even more valuable to offer in the global battle against food insecurity.
Salve students Anthony Tandy and Erica Manchester check plant growth in the lab as the university strives to take its research to the next level in helping to feed the hungry in Rwanda.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY
Virgin of Altagracia Celebration
Hundreds gathered in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, to attend the Mass in celebration of the Virgin of Altagracia, a devotion of the faithful in the Dominican Republic.
PHOTO: SILVIO CUELLAR
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EDITORIAL: In a former age, an attack on the U.S. Capitol would inspire a united front in response
“January 6” is the new battle-cry of political elites. Vice President Harris brazenly compared the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The victims’ families of those atrocities rightly object to this analogy with repugnance. The left is not alone, however, in hijacking January 6 for political capital.
Survey finds path to U.S. citizenship for migrants has majority support
By: Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service
Though immigration remains a polemic topic in political circles, just 44% of Americans recently surveyed by the Public Religion Research Institute said it was a “critical issue” in the U.S.

A majority favored a path to citizenship for those who are in the country without legal permission.

By and large, Americans had a positive view of immigrants, saying they strengthen the country, with a minority seeing immigrants as a burden to the U.S., the survey found.

Those were among findings released Feb. 3 by PRRI from a survey examining American perspectives on immigration policy.
A mother and daughter from Honduras wait at La Colaborativa in Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 30, 2021, while getting help with free clothes and food as well as advice for their upcoming immigration hearing.
CNS photo/Brian Snyder, Reuters
Annual Celebration of World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life
WASHINGTON — The Catholic Church held its annual celebration of World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on February 2, and parishes will commemorate the event over the weekend of February 5-6. This event is a special time for individual parishes to celebrate the gift of consecrated life and pray for men and women discerning a consecrated vocation with the global Catholic Church.
Pictured in this Rhode Island Catholic file photo, many religious sisters and brothers from across the Diocese of Providence gather at Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, North Providence, on World Day of Consecrated Life, coming together in prayer and fellowship.
FILE PHOTO: LAURA KILGUS
Pope’s February prayer intention: For consecrated women
Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of February, and invites Catholics to pray for religious sisters and consecrated women as they continue in their mission with courage.


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Pope explains praying to saints
During his general audience Feb. 2, Pope Francis explained the communion of saints.

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We celebrated the Feast of St. Blaise February 3 as Fr. Woodhouse came over to the school and blessed our throats!
St. Paul School, PreK-8, Cranston
February 3 ~ The Blessing of the Throats
Feast Day of St. Blaise
Monsignor Anthony Mancini, Rector of the Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul, imparts the traditional blessing of the throats.

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What is the Synod?
Launched by Pope Francis in October 2021, the synod is an opportunity for all people to discuss ways to broaden and strengthen participation and life in the Catholic Church. It is officially called “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission.”
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