Melkite Patriarch Youseff (Joseph) Absi will be coming to New England from Lebanon to visit Melkite parishes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island from July 10-15. He will be in Worcester at Our Lady of Perpetual Help July 14.

Father Alan J. Martineau, ordained June 23 in St. Paul Cathedral, said that he first thought of the priesthood as being interesting when he watched his pastor, Father James F. Hoey, read notes before Mass, then deliver a homily from memory.