June 19, 2009
Worth Mentioning
Five Ferdinand Benedictines to celebrate Golden Jubilees
Five Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their monastic profession on Saturday, July 4, at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand. Bene-dictine Father Anthony Vinson will preside at the 1 p.m. Jubilee Mass in the monastery church. A reception for family and friends will follow in St. Gertrude Hall in the monastery.
The jubilarians, Sisters Mary Austin Blank, Mary Emma Jochum, Mary Cheryl Uebelhor, Rosa Lee Koch (formerly Sister Mary Carl), and Mary Oliver Reising, entered the mon-astery in 1957 and made their first profession of monastic vows in 1959 and their final profession in 1962.
Biographical details will be published next week.
Card Party, Style Show to benefit Goodwill employees
The Evansville Goodwill Industries, Inc. Auxiliary will hold its annual Card Party and Style Show at Cambridge Golf Club, Tuesday, June 23, with doors opening at 10 a.m. The cost is $20 per person, which includes buffet lunch including dessert, beverages and snacks. The style show is presented by The Graceful Lady of Fort Branch.
St. John, Daylight, to hold Steak Night
The Men’s Club of St. John the Evangelist Church in Daylight invites all adults to a Steak Night, Saturday, July 11, starting at 6 p.m.
The cost is $15 per person for a steak dinner with an advance ticket, or $20 per person at the door. Entry without a meal is $5.
Entertainment, with Adult Games of Chance, will continue until 11 p.m.
For information call the parish office at (812) 867-3718.
An invitation for family, faith and fun at Ferdinand
A “Family, Faith, and Fun” program offered at Kordes Center on the monastery grounds in Ferdinand on June 27 will provide an opportunity for families to grow in their faith and to have fun together. This program, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Benedict, will have two tracks: one for parents and one for children.
The session for parents will focus on how to be spiritual leaders for their family. Topics will include praying as a family, scheduling God into hectic lives, and living life to the fullest.
In their sessions, the children will participate in songs, games and other fun activities that will teach them about God and how to pray and keep God in their lives.
Presenters are Colleen and Les Kiesel of Haubstadt and Benedictine Sister Teresa Gun-ter.
The program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT. Check-in time is 9 a.m. Cost is $40 per family.
Families are encouraged to bring a lunch and enjoy a picnic on the monastery grounds after the program. Sack lunches will be available for purchase.
Check www.thedome.org/programs or call (800) 880-2777 or (812) 367-1411 for further information. Registration is due by June 22.
An invitation
Maryann Joyce of Evansville is inviting others to meet “for prayer and reflection on living the gospel values as practiced by the Catholic Worker Movement.”
She said “Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin began this movement 75 years ago during the Great Depression to follow Jesus Christ’s non-violence, voluntary poverty and radical hospitality.
To that end, many Catholic Workers live intentionally in community, resist war, share their resources and offer the corporal and spiritual works of mercy (feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, forgive wrongs, and instruct the ignorant).”
Her invitation is to find out “How can we more fully live the call of the Gospel during these tough economic times and be people of mercy, peace and generosity to those who suffer?”
Contact Maryann Joyce at (812) 867-7507 or e-mail maryannjoyce@sbcglobal.net.
Praying for peace
Need suggestions or guidance in praying for peace? In Pakistan or Korea? Jim McGinnis, program director, Institute for Peace and Jus-tice in St. Louis, has resources available.
See calendars and prayer suggestions at www.ipj-ppj.org/prayingforpeace.htm.