All four Roman Catholic diocesan bishops in Massachusetts are allowing Catholics to eat meat on Friday, March 17 even though it's a Friday during Lent.
So are all the dioceses elsewhere in New England, except for the Diocese of Providence, which covers the entire state of Rhode Island.
NewBostonPost is publishing a regular weekly column by local religious leaders each Friday. This week's article is below.
There has been a lot of web press on recent happenings at Asbury University, a small Christian evangelical school in central Kentucky. It seems the Holy Spirit is being poured out, as on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-11), on the gatherings of students in the chapel of the college. For 16 days last month, students engaged in spontaneous and continuous praise and worship, weeping and rejoicing, offering testimonies of physical and emotional healings, and above all of a palpable sense of the presence of God, visiting and blessing his people.
