by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 8, 2022 | VOICE
August 2022 Parity funding for the Prince William County Public Defender Office is key to a fair and equitable system of restorative justice. Low pay and heavy workloads make it difficult to recruit and retain high quality attorneys for the Public Defender’s Office. ...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 8, 2022 | VOICE
August 2022 Early in 2021, VOICE leaders in Prince William County (PWC) began a campaign, together with key allies, to create a Crisis Receiving Center (CRC) –a facility where police and the wider public can take people suffering from a mental health crisis instead of...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 6, 2022 | Weekly-Email
…that are easy to miss, to tune out, or just not realize how important they are. Like the Readings, these three prayers are different for each Mass. The three prayers are the Collect, the Prayer over the Offerings, and the Prayer after Communion. They’re short prayers...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 3, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The daily readings are never meant to be a Bible Study per se, but unless one has a sense of the book or scroll from which it is taken, I think people unfamiliar with, e.g., the prophet Jeremiah, easily are lost as the reading is proclaimed. It just becomes words,...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 1, 2022 | Friar Reflection
St. Alphonsus is the patron saint of moral theologians. In his day, Alphonsus strove to free the Church from a moral theology that was ever more influenced by something called Jansenism. What is Jansenism? You could spend a whole day tracking its roots from Tertullian...
