August 14, 2009
Around the Diocese
Clothing bank
“Rita and John Kohl are beginning an effort to start a ‘specialized’ clothing bank for the poor,” according to the bulletin at Nativity Church, Evansville.
The clothing will be available for “job interviews, infants and children, and for First Communions and prom and wedding type dresses.”
The item noted that “many boys and girls don’t make their First Communions because they cannot afford the clothing.
“In the Latino community fifteen-year-old girls celebrate Quinceaneras as a rite of passage, they and their attendants wear prom type dresses that only the rich can afford.
“We want every young man and woman to be able to celebrate this rite of passage during their Confirmation year.”
For additional information, call Rita at (812) 455-9058.
Happy Birthday!
Deacon Donald Haag of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Petersburg, celebrates his birthday Aug. 19.
Deacon James Flynn of St. Benedict Cathedral, Evansville, celebrates his birthday Aug. 20.
Deacon Michael Waninger of St. Martin Church, Chrisney, and St. Bernard Church, Rock-port, and temporary pastoral life coordinator at St. John Chrysostom Church, New Bos-ton, celebrates his birthday Aug. 23.
Father James Rogers, a retired priest of the Diocese of Evansville, celebrates his birthday Aug. 25. He resides at St. Paul’s Hermitage, 501 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove, IN 46107.
Anniversaries of ordination
Father John Breidenbach, on health leave, was ordained to the priesthood Aug. 21, 1987.
Father Michael Madden, pastor of Holy Name Church, Bloomfield, and St. Peter Church, Linton, was ordained to the priesthood Aug. 22, 1975.
New DRE
“It is my pleasure to announce to you the new Director of Religious Education,” writes Father Phil Kreilein in the bulletin at Resurrection Church, Evansville.
“It is Karen Muensterman” who has been a part of the religious education and parish program for many years. She is a “mother and a faith-filled Catholic.”
Anniversaries at St. John
Congratulations to couples at St. John the Baptist Church, Vincennes, celebrating August wedding anniversaries: Robert and Marian Kaiser, 56 yeas; Paul and Dixie Bouchie, 53 years; Richard and Dorothy Worland, 48 years; Jerome and Judith Doyle, 46 years; Charles and Karen Owens, 44 years; Steven and Sharon Halter, 43 years; John and Kathryn Brown, 40 years.
Happy Birthday!
Denise Craney, CRE at St. Martin Church, Whitfield, celebrates her birthday Aug. 20.
Mark McDonald, DRE at St. Philip Church, Posey County, celebrates his birthday Aug. 25.
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.