Glenmary Father Don Tranel blesses the palms during the vigil Mass for Palm Sunday 2022.
You could hardly think of a better word than resurrection when you consider what’s happening in Smith County, Tennessee, this Easter. That’s the county where Glenmary missioner Father Don Tranel set up shop in January of last year and started letting people know the possibility of bringing together a Catholic church near the county seat of Carthage.
Immediately, Father Don started identifying Catholics—a fair-sized group of them—who had been traveling to various other counties to attend established parishes in bigger places. But he also found people longing to join the Church.
“We have two candidates and one catechumen,” he said, before Easter. He had just been with them at the Cathedral in Nashville for the Rite of Election…. (full article available at glenmary.org)