POWELL †The only thing the ritual shared with Easter was timing †and a few brightly colored eggs constituting an offering to the “shining ones.” They purified their ceremony by making a banishment offering to the “out-dwellers and tricksters.”
Andres, Marjorie Elizabeth ANDRES, Marjorie Elizabeth. Age ninety-two, of Gables Lodge, Amherst and formerly of Montreal and Halifax, passed away Monday, March 24, 2008 at the Lodge. Born in Amherst November 8, 1915, she was a daughter of the late Blair William and Gertrude Mildred (Smith) Andres. She worked at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal as Director of Dietary Services until her retirement
As a construction crane lowered steel reinforcement rods through the roof of Holy Name Cathedral on Friday afternoon, several hundred people filled rows of squeaky folding seats next door, in the Parish Center auditorium.
WE HAVE all the reasons to thank our modern civilization for the "glory and grandeur" it bestows upon us today. We become witnesses to spectacular phenomenon(s) in both physical and abstract sciences.
Soldiers stripped Jesus as part of the rite of humiliation, a significant part of his torture during his final hours, Minister Cliff Stewart told his Holy Week audience Friday.