Sister of Charity was longtime pastoral associate in Diocese of Knoxville By Dan McWilliams Sister Marian Ruede, SC, formerly a longtime pastoral associate at St. Thérèse of Lisieux Parish in Cleveland, passed away Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, at the age of 88 in the Sisters of Charity Motherhouse at Mother …
Century of ‘giants’: 100 years for Holy Ghost Church
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Dan McWilliams
North Knoxville parish celebrates a vast history on the centennial of its 1926 building By Dan McWilliams The “Cathedral of Happy Holler” experienced one of its happiest weekends ever on April 25-26 as Holy Ghost Church in North Knoxville celebrated the 100th anniversary of its 1926 building. The church of Norman Gothic design, one of the most beautiful in the diocese—or, as Holy Ghost parishioners might say, anywhere—was dedicated on April 25, 1926. Pastor Father John Orr presided at a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin on the exact day of the centennial, saying in his homily that the priests and parishioners today stand “on the shoulders of giants” who came before them in the last century. And on the following morning, Bishop Mark Beckman celebrated the 10 a.m. Mass, marking Good Shepherd Sunday, as the Fourth Sunday of Easter is called. Bishop Beckman, Knoxville’s fourth shepherd, has ties to two... Read more →