There are three things I remember most from the Pilgrimage for Life: spiritual growth, hospitality and extremely cold toes. The cold toes part seems to be the usual during the Pilgrimage for Life, and it would be silly to expect anything less from an overnight bus trip to and from Washington, D.C.,...
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On November 4, 2013, I left my safe haven in the United States to help my son, Logan, fulfill a dream of distributing 830 pair of shoes to a Third World country. He had decided over one year ago that he would like to collect shoes for the children in Haiti as his Eagle Scout project. His uncle [my...
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Members of the Washington Catholic High School choir performed at Epcot Center in Florida under the direction of Katherine Ulrich. “They were selected to sing during two performances at Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida on Dec. 8 for the Candlelight Procession at Epcot Center,” said K...
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Pilgrimage “I recently went on a trip to Italy, and I first viewed this trip as a vacation,” writes Father Eugene Schmitt, pastor at St. Raphael Parish in Dubois and St. Peter Celestine Parish in Celestine. “However, after a day or two of traveling through Italy, I could see this...
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General Interest Catholics Returning Home, 7 p.m., Tuesdays, Jan. 7-Feb. 11, St. Joan of Arc’s Brenner Hall, Jasonville; open to Catholics who have been away from their church and are seeking a way to return; sponsored by St. Mary, Sullivan and St. Joan of Arc, Jasonville; for more informatio...
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The Resurrection Catholic School Student Council sold candy grams the week of Dec. 16, with proceed going to the Vanderburgh County Humane Society.“I came out of my office one morning and saw a student walking down the hall crying,” Resurrection Principal Theresa Berendes told The Messa...
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  Preparing the way The Spirit of Christmas was alive and well in the Diocese of Evansville as students in religious education programs and schools performed in pageants, collected food for the needy, and decorated their halls and classrooms. St. Wendel School art teacher Amber Martin and eig...
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  Students at Evansville’s Resurrection Catholic School honored Principal Theresa Berendes Dec. 11 with a luncheon that included Diocesan Superintendent of Schools Daryl Hagan and Resurrection Pastor Father Phil Kreilein.   Student Council members organized the event, and students a...
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  The Catechism guides us In his fourth and final column in the bulletin at St. Theresa Parish in Evansville on the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” Deacon Dave Seibert notes a quote “from our very own patroness.”  “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; i...
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Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ: In the words of Tiny Tim, of Christmas Story fame, “May God bless us, each and every one!”  Of all the gifts that we might give or receive, there is no greater gift than the grace of divine presence and grace in our lives.  Shortly after...
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