St. Helen Parish’s Respect Life ministry sponsors a butterfly release every year in remembrance of unborn babies. Just as a caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly, their hope is that the symbolic release will transform grief into hope and healing of the loss of an unborn baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion.

The month of November begins this year with our moving the clocks back an hour on its first Sunday, Nov. 2. As we do so, we are reminded, as we gain an extra hour, that time is always moving forward.

Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito recently blessed the new athletic field at Saint John Paul II Academy, capping the first phase of capital improvements to sports facilities on the Boca Raton campus.