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Gabriel Rosset is Columbia magazine Catholic Man of the Month

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  Gabriel Rosset (b. November 28,1904-d. d. December 30 1974) Columbia Magazine Catholic Man of the Month is a saint for help to the homeless: Gabriel Rosset was born in 1904 in Champier, near La Côte-Saint-André, in Isère. He was born into a modest family of peasant origin. His father was a police officer. When a teacher in Lyon, France, he learned about the alarmingly high number of homeless men dying under the city's bridges after World War II.  He felt called to act.  The apostolate, he co-founded Notree-Dame des Sans Abri (Our Lady of the Homeless) - continues to serve thousands of people in need today. Gabriel Rosset was born in Champier, a commune in southeastern France. An exceptional student, he became a literature teacher at age 24.  Most of the 40-year teaching career was spent at the Lycee Alexandre Lacassagne in Lyon , where he later received the Legion of Honor award for education in 1965. As a young man, Rosset often joined other Catholic teachers and univeresity stu

The Chosen - recommended viewing especially during Lent

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  Deacon John Murphy at All Saints Parish, recommended watching tthis series, especially during Lent: The Chosen 

Ukraine exhibit- painted ammo boxes at the Museum of Russian icons

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 https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/exhibitions/ The Museum of Russian Icons is pleased to showcase three icons painted on the boards of ammunition boxes by Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova, a husband and wife artistic team from Kyiv. Mother of God Gate of Dawn The project, "Buy an Icon-Save a Life" was developed by Atlantova and Klymenko after the 2014, Russian invasion of Ukraine when Klymenko encountered empty wooden ammunition boxes from combat zones and noted their resemblance to icon boards (doski). By repurposing the panels, the project strives to "transform death (symbolized by ammo boxes) into life (traditionally symbolized by icons in Ukrainian culture). The goal, this victory of life over death, happens not only on the figurative and symbolic level but also in reality through these icons created on ammo boxes. Exhibitions of the ammo box icons have been staged throughout Europe and North America to raise awareness of the ongoing war in Ukraine. In addi