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CLEVELAND — Olivia Pearce, a fifth grader at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic School, won first place in the LifeWorks of Ohio essay contest for her age group. LifeWorks Ohio is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization devoted to education that affirms the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. The annual contest gives students an opportunity to show their commitment to the social justice principle of life and dignity of the human person. This year’s contest theme was, “Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father” (Mt 5:16). Isabella Ramirez, a reporter for the Horizons’ Kids page, interviewed Pearce on her experience. READ MORE.

CLEVELAND — The Eastern Christian Formation students from the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. Mary Parish and Holy Spirit Parish had a hands-on experience of making prosphora, the bread used for Communion, and an up-close presentation of the rite of preparation. Father Marek Visnovsky, pastor and administrator of the three parishes, brought all the ingredients for the prosphora recipe and a batch of dough that was already rising to a Saturday morning class, held at the cathedral. Students received the prosphora prayers, which they prayed together. He pointed out the correlation between Jesus being referred to as the “Bread of Life” and his birth in Bethlehem, a name that means “house of bread.” READ MORE.

FLUSHING, Mich. — Parishioners of St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church and their pastor, Father James Batcha, made a sick call and birthday visit with their oldest living parishioner, George Dunich, who turned 102 April 10. READ MORE.

PARMA, Ohio — The Eparchy of Parma gained a new priest May 5, with the presbyteral ordination of Father Nathan Daniel Adams at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Bishop Milan Lach, SJ, of Parma ordained Father Adams during the afternoon Divine Liturgy, attended by faithful and priests of the eparchy. Some of Father Adams’ classmates at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh, as well as some seminary faculty and the abbot of Holy Resurrection Monastery in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, where Father Adams and his wife, Ali, were received into the Byzantine Catholic Church in 2013, were also in attendance. READ MORE.

The Theotokos is a great gift from God. The last will of Jesus Christ was to give his mother to all of humanity. He did this, on the cross, when he gave his mother to the Apostle John the Theologian. “Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home” (Jn 19:25-27). READ MORE.