Deacon Maurice Sunde Afor gets a kick out of combining his recreational passion with his ministry.

Deacon James Bors decided to devote the rest of his life to serving God and the church. He will be ordained to the priesthood June 18 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.

Deacon Peter Kiamo-oh was attracted to the Catholic faith through the example of teachers and others at his school in Cameroon.

Deacon David C.F. Ray, who will be ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 18, does not have a “road to Damascus story” to describe his vocation to the priesthood.

This week on Catholic Review Radio, Christopher Gunty talks with Bishop Andrew Cozzens, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and about the plans a National Eucharistic Congress planned for 2024.

A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Margaret Mary Glick was offered May 25 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Margaret died April 20. She was 93.

Marian House offers outreach and support services for unhoused and formerly incarcerated women and their children.

Jose Feliz, a seventh grader at St. John Regional Catholic School, Frederick, held a wooden rosary given to him by his grandmother for his birthday as he and some 250 fifth- through eighth-grade students sat on the grass and prayed in the school’s Mary Garden May 23.

History came alive an annual fifth-grade class project at St. Mary Catholic School in Hagerstown, known as the “Wax Museum.” After several weeks of research and preparation, students dressed up as their given historical figure, stationed themselves around the school’s gym on May 24 and prepared to educate the museum’s guests.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will conclude its Year of Eucharist with a fitting celebration on the Feast of Corpus Christi June 19 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. On the same day, the U.S. bishops will launch a three-year National Eucharistic Revival.