July 23, 2010

Worth Mentioning

Youth group parishes listed

A summer youth musical, “IDK, My BFF Jesus,” was presented by the St. Maria Goretti Youth Group on July 16, 17 and 18, at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Haubstadt.

The Message published pictures and a story about the event, July 16.

Members of the St. Maria Goretti Youth Group are from St. James and Sts. Peter and Paul churches in Haubstadt, Holy Cross Church in Fort Branch and St. Bernard Church in Snake Run.

Free organ program at St. Meinrad

Three organists will present a free program in the St. Meinrad Archabbey Church on Sat-urday, July 24, at 3 p.m. Central time.

Michael David, Don Michael Dicie and Ray-mond Henderson are students of Benedictine Father Columba Kelly, a monk of St. Meinrad Archabbey, former choirmaster of the monas-tery and composer of English chant. The three organists are taking part in a two-week chant course offered this summer at St. Meinrad.

The musical program will consist of some works that are based on Gregorian chant melodies and will include works by Dicie, Langlais, Near, Schroeder, Sowerby and Van Hulse, as well as Howells, Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

This hour-long program is free and open to the public.

Used book sale at the Woods

The Sisters of Providence Seventh Annual Used Book Sale kicks off Saturday, July 31, and continues through Sunday, Aug. 8, in the Providence Center conference room at St. Mary-of-the-Woods.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Gift Shop at Providence Center will also observe those hours.

Visitors will be able to choose from an array of nonfiction, fiction, paperbacks, hardback novels, bestsellers and books featuring spirituality, theology, travel, gardening, cooking and more.

Children’s books, CDs, DVDs, VHS and audio tapes, and puzzles are also available. All proceeds benefit ministries of the Sisters of Providence. For more details, phone The Gift Shop at (812) 535-2947 or toll free at (866) 996-2947 or e-mail giftshop@spsmw.org.

Also, Sunday Brunch is available in O’Shaughnessy Dining Room, voted the Best Brunch in the Terre Haute area. Serving time is 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. On Aug. 1, Sunday Brunch Live will be featured by radio host Danny Wayne of The Valley (95.9 FM). Visitors may sign up to win a door prize that day.

Sisters of Providence participating in community project to preserve Civil War-era documents, memorabilia

The Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods are partnering with Wabash Valley Vision and Voices (WV3), to digitize more than 1,000 Civil War era items in an effort to preserve content of original documents and promote renewed local research as the nation prepares for the 150 anniversary of the start of the Civil War.

Also partnering in the project are Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library, the Vigo County Public Library and the Vigo County Historical Society.

Group members plan to digitize field journals, letters, discharge papers, photographs, medals, ribbons, canteens, uniforms and more. After the items are processed, they will be fully accessible for online research at www.visions.indstate.edu. By digitizing material, pres-ervation of the often-fragile documents will be maintained.