Gulf Pine Catholic
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February 27, 2015
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Our Lady Academy
Principal Position
222 Beach Blvd.
Bay Saint Louis, MS
Qualifications:
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Be a practicing Catholic committed to teachings of the Church;
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Hold a current Administrator’s License in MS;
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Possess excellent collaborative skills and the ability to lead
with wisdom and insight.
Salary based on experience and qualifications.
Application deadline is March 16, 2015
Forms are available at
(228) 702-2130
OLA, the only all girls junior/senior high school in MS, seeks the
right person to help guide us in “fitting our young women for
Earth without unfitting them for Heaven.”
MERCY - STRENGTH - SERVICE - GRACE
Annunciation Parish in Kiln from
1965-1966. From 1966 to 1972, he
served as his community’s voca-
tions director. From 1972-1979, he
served as pastor of St. Stephen
Parish in Delisle and from 1984 to
1990 as pastor of Holy Child Jesus
Parish in Canton, Mississippi. After
six years as retreat director at the
Shrine of St. Joseph in Stirling, NY,
he returned to Mississippi where he
served as pastor of Holy Rosary Indian Mission in
Tucker, which is located near Philadelphia, where he
ministered to the Choctaw Indians.
Currently, he works with Native Americans in
Tuscon, Arizona, especially the Yaqui and Tohono
O’Odham Tribes.
Father Abram Dono, S.T., co-founder of the
Cursillo Movement of South Mississippi, to lead
Sacred Heart Parish Lenten mission
DEDEAUX -- Father Abram Dono, S.T., will con-
duct a Lenten mission at Sacred Heart Parish in
Dedeaux, 14595 Vidalia Rd, March 23-26.
He was ordained a priest on May 28, 1964, for the
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. This reli-
gious community was founded by Father Thomas
Augustine Judge, C.M. (1868-1933), a pioneer in devel-
oping the American Lay Apostolate. The followers of
Father Judge make up the “Cenacle Family” of religious
sisters, priests, brothers and laity. This community
works preservations of the faith in the United States,
Puerto Rico and Mexico, Central and South America.
They staff over 126 mission churches.
The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dono, he
was baptized “John” in St. Ambrose Church, Brooklyn,
NY in 1936.
Among his assignments, Father Abram served at
Father Dono
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Father Abram, is known to many in the Diocese of
Biloxi through his involvement with the Cursillo
Movement of South Mississippi.
In 1972, Father Abram and the late Father Bill
Vollor, along with local laymen made, a Cursillo in
Louisiana. In 1973, Dr. Milton Reich, a Jesuit retreat
master, was loaned to the Church in Mississippi to con-
duct weekends. The first few weekends were conducted
by teams from the New Orleans area, and eventually
teams from Mississippi were trained by Father Abram
and Father Vollor.
Father Abram is sometimes called “The Singing
Priest” because he often sings in his retreat conferenc-
es, a style which he learned from his Southern Baptist
preacher friends.
“We call on all citizens and our children” to work
together and with Pope Francis “to not let the flame of
hope be extinguished in your hearts.”
The Syrian-born prelate pointed out that Lebanon
has accepted waves of displaced people and refugees:
from Palestine since 1949, from Syria since 2011 and,
currently and in stages, from Iraq.
Lebanon is now hosting more than 1.5 million refu-
gees -- mostly Syrians and an increasing flow of Iraqi
Christians -- putting a strain on the country’s infra-
structure and resources for its existing population of
around 4 million people.
“How many have heard about all the stories of suf-
fering,” he said. He noted that although the church en-
courages the faithful in the region to remain and hold
on “with ropes of hope and faith and surrender to the
will of God,” at the same time, the decision whether to
stay or to leave one’s country “is a personal decision and
responsibility of every individual and every family.”
“But we as pastors, we will remain with all who re-
main, and serve them ... with all our strength,” Patriarch
Laham added.
He thanked Muslims who urged Christians to re-
main in the Middle East. They have included leaders of
Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s leading institution
of higher learning, and Egyptian President Abdel Fat-
tah al-Sisi.
In a separate Lenten message, Cardinal Bechara Rai,
Maronite Catholic patriarch, called for greater efforts to
preserve the Christian presence in the Middle East.
“You know, my brothers and sisters, loved ones, how
the needs of our people in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt
and the Holy Land are growing, because of the wars and
destruction and displacement, as well as displacement
and impoverishment due to the economic crisis and ris-
ing costs of living, unemployment and limited job op-
portunities,” the Lebanese cardinal said.
He urged people to participate in Caritas Lebanon’s
annual fundraising campaign “geared to meet these
needs,” which he said must be addressed in charity and
love. He also assured people that “Christ is capable of
renewing everything around us.”
The patriarchs called for fasting and prayer for
peace. They also thanked Pope Francis for his appeals
for Christians in the Middle East.
In the Eastern Catholic churches, Lent begins two
days earlier than in the Latin rite. Ashes were distrib-
uted Feb. 16 this year in Eastern churches.
Sábado/Saturday
Pascagoula: Sacred Heart Parish, 6 pm
Domingo/Sunday
Gulfport: St. John the Evangelist Parish,
7:30 pm
Hattiesburg: Sacred Heart Parish, 1:30 pm
Laurel: Immaculate Conception Parish, 4 pm
Ocean Springs: St. Alphonsus Parish, 2 pm
Picayune: St. Charles Borromeo Parish, 1 pm
(2nd & 4th Sundays)
Lunes/Monday
Biloxi: Our Lady of Fatima Parish, 6 pm
Las Misas Celebradas en Español/Masse Celebrated in Spanish
