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Gulf Pine Catholic • December 6, 2024 17 Collection: December 7-8 Our aging religious need your help. Like those pictured, nearly 24,000 senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests have devoted their lives to serving others through prayer and ministry. Today, their religious communities do not have enough retirement savings to care for them. Your support of the Retirement Fund for Religious helps provide care, medicine, and other necessities. Please give back to those who have given a lifetime. Please give at your local parish. Visit retiredreligious.org/2024photos to meet the religious pictured. © 2024 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. • All rights reserved • Photo: Jim Judkis Give generously in your parish collection, or send donation to: Retirement Fund for Religious c/o Diocese of Biloxi 1790 Popps Ferry Rd. Biloxi, MS 39532 A small portion of collection pays for this advertisement. retiredreligious.org Pray for an increase of vocations to the priesthood, to the diaconate, and to the religious life, especially in the Diocese of Biloxi She said that when she’s competing in the Olympics, she carries in her heart all those peo- ple from Stone Ridge and from Little Flower school and parish who have supported her. “They’ve all been so great and have all helped me learn how to have balance in my life,” she said. Asked if she still prays the Hail Mary before her swimming races, Ledecky said, “I still do that. I joke that it’s probably more like a decade of the rosary now. Yes, I’ve always done that.” Ledecky said her Catholic faith remains a source of strength for her. That faith and the support of her Catholic schools and parish help “quiet my head and quiet my heart and help me feel balance and ready and prepared and supported. ... I lean on everything I learned at Little Flower and Stone Ridge,” she said. Mark Zimmermann is editor of the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington. Ledecky High School Alma Mater From page 10 Pope Corsica Schedule From page 7 According to the “Annuario Pontificio,” a Vatican yearbook, about 81% of Corsica’s almost 344,000 inhabitants are Catholic. Here is the detailed schedule of the pope’s trip released by the Vatican Nov. 23. Times listed are local, with Eastern Standard Time in paren- thesis. Sunday, Dec. 15 (Rome, Ajaccio) -- 7:45 a.m. (1:45 a.m.) Departure from Rome’s Fiumicino airport. -- 9 a.m. (3 a.m.) Arrival at Ajaccio International Airport and official welcome. -- 10:15 a.m. (4:15 a.m.) Closing session of “Popular Religiosity in the Mediterranean” con- ference at the Ajaccio Convention and Exhibition Center. Speech by pope. -- 11:20 a.m. (5:20 a.m.) Recitation of the Angelus prayer with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, and seminarians at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Speech by pope. -- 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m.) Mass at Place d’Aus- terlitz. Homily by pope. -- 5:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.) Meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at Ajaccio International Airport. -- 6 p.m. (Noon) Farewell ceremony at Ajaccio International Airport. -- 6:15 p.m. (12:15 p.m.) Departure from Ajaccio International Airport. -- 7:05 p.m. (1:05 p.m.) Arrival at Rome’s Fiumicino airport.