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Marlyn Beaudine’s efforts include delivering wheelchair bags, installing access ramps, making rosaries and providing lawn care.

“This story of forbidden love took place long ago on a Mediterranean island — 1870s Sicily, to be exact.”

The Emmaus Institute for Ministry Formation is offering four informational open houses — two in English, two in Spanish — this spring for anyone interested in the program. All open houses will be held virtually via Zoom.

St. Cloud mayor talks family, community and participation.

Eleven women from the St. Stephen quilt group worked on the project.

“Easter gives me hope that we have gained a renewed appreciation during the last year for our families, communities and parishes.”

The Easter liturgies — with the fire, sharing of light from the paschal candle, the renewal of baptismal promises and the proclamation that Jesus has risen — assure people that it is never too late to start again, Pope Francis said.

Young scouts, teens and children with their caretakers carried slender torches aloft, taking turns carrying a wooden cross around the obelisk and to the pope.