July 10, 2009
Around the Diocese
Traveling
In a recent parish bulletin at St. Philip Neri Church, Bicknell, Father Jason Gries, pastor, said that he is traveling to Charlotte, N.C., with local youth. “We are going to a Catholic Heart Work Camp on a mission trip. While there we will have the opportunity to reach out and physically help our brothers and sisters in Christ.
“As much as we will try to give, I’ve always found that I seem to receive so much more in return. Mission trips are opportunities for our young people to experience something apart from their ordinary everyday life and see Christ in some new people and new ways.”
Happy birthday!
Father Joseph Erbacher, pastor at St. John Church, Loogootee, St. Martin Church, Whitfield, St. Mary Church, Shoals, and St. Joseph Church, Bramble, celebrates his birthday July 18.
Deacon Thomas Goebel of Corpus Christi Church, Evansville, celebrates his birthday July 18.
Father David Fleck, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church, and St. Vincent de Paul Church, both in Vincennes, celebrates his birthday July 20.
Happy birthday!
Maggie Phillips, CRE at St. Clement Church, Boonville, celebrates her birthday July 19.
David Memmer, principal at the three Washington Catholic Schools in Washington, celebrates his birthday July 20.
Published poets
Sarah Kelley and Chelsea Martin, students at Mater Dei High School, Evansville, will have their poems published in the Spring 2009 “Celebration of Young Poets”
Anniversaries at St. John
Congratulations to couples at St. John the Baptist Church, Vincennes, celebrating July wed-ding anniversaries: Leland “Jack” and Wilma Marchino, 59 years; Lawrence and Ruth Schmidt, 56 years; Richard “Dick” and Marjorie Kaiser, 53 years; Edmund and Dorothy Thais, 50 years; Larry and Wilma Petty, 44 years.
One year tuition
The St. Vincent de Paul Conference at St. Theresa Church, Evansville, has been selected to receive a special grant to fund one year of tuition at Ivy tech. The recipient will work with the members of the conference to enroll and complete the school year.
55 years
Congratulations to James and Doretha Wahl, parishioners at St. Ferdinand Church, Ferdinand, as they celebrate their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Year of the Priest
A notice in the parish bulletin at St. Peter Church, Montgomery, and All Saints Church, Cannelburg, states, “Pope Benedict XVI has declared June 19, 2009, to June 19, 2010, ‘The Year of the Priest.’ We will order special prayer cards for each parishioner to pray over the next 365 days. At our parishes, we never underestimate the power of prayer.”
Please send information for AROUND THE DIOCESE to Mary Ann Hughes, The Message, P.O. Box 4169, Evansville, IN 47724. The e-mail address is mhughes@evansville-diocese.org.