Signs – and side effects – of dwindling participation by high school students in the sacrament of confirmation have become all too real. More Catholic teens are opting out of confirmation instruction, swayed by considerable distractions facing all youth in today’s culture. As a result, the high numbers of young …
Advent penance services scheduled around the diocese
Here are the Advent penance services received as of press time. Note that many parishes are having, instead of penance services, extended or additional times for confession during Advent: Chattanooga Deanery Wednesday, Dec. 3—Holy Spirit, Soddy-Daisy, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4—St. Bridget, Dayton, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4—St. Augustine, Signal Mountain, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9—St. Jude, Chattanooga, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11—St. Mary, Athens, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15—St. Stephen, Chattanooga, 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Cleveland, 7 p.m. Cumberland Mountain Deanery Tuesday, Dec. 16—St. Francis of Assisi, Fairfield Glade, 6 p.m. CST Five Rivers Deanery Tuesday, Dec. 2—St. Michael the Archangel, Erwin, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3—St. Henry, Rogersville, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3—St. Anthony of Padua, Mountain City, 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4—St. Mary, Johnson City, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10—St. Elizabeth, Elizabethton, 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11—Holy Trinity, Jefferson City, 7 p.m. Monday,... Read more →