August 19, 2025 Blessing of the Little Angels Shrine Saturday, September 6 at 11:00 am Bishop Frank Caggiano will bless our new shrine located at Resurrection Cemetery208 South Main Street | Newtown, Connecticut This sacred space will be available to bury the remains...
August 18, 2025 Patty D. was present when her grandson Jack was born on July 18, 2019. Her son John was ecstatic because a third John Dillon had been born. It was an enormous joy for a family whose joy was overshadowed by John’s diagnosis of incurable brain cancer....
August 17, 2025 The following is an excerpt from Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life.” A Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, Nhất Hạnh was a peace activist, teacher, and poet whose writings are read worldwide, and in 1967, Martin Luther...
August 16, 2025 “I found you in my heart…” You could hear the leaves rustling that Saturday afternoon when they gathered at Orange Cemetery as cumulus clouds hung on the horizon beneath a sky of blue. You could feel the end of summer in the air. It was two decades ago...
August 15, 2025 When Nancy Mecca’s husband Nick, of more than 30 years, died, she was so overwhelmed with grief, she didn’t think she could go on. Her world was turned upside down, and nothing seemed to make sense. “I signed up for the New Day Bereavement Program and...
August 14, 2025 “Take gentle care of your beautiful self.”— Sister Pauline Semkow, RSM A caregiver’s grief is uniquely different. After the funeral of a loved one, family members and friends return to their daily routine, but the caregiver’s daily routine no...
