Around The Diocese - Week Of Jan. 11
Tours
"We had a remarkable first year that concluded at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Petersburg,” writes Jim Schroeder.
He is talking about a tour of parishes in the Diocese of Evansville that he, his family and friends went on last year. The group included 18 families with a total of 33 kids.
Every month, they visited a different parish.
Their historical tour of churches in the diocese will continue in 2013, he says.
This year’s visits will include
• St. Philip Church, Posey County;
• St. Vincent de Paul Church, Vincennes;
• Holy Trinity Church, Evansville;
• St. Bernard Church, Rockport;
• St. Joseph Church, Bramble;
• Mary, Help of Christians Church, Mariah Hill;
• St. Matthew Church, Mount Vernon;
• St. John Church, Loogootee;
• St. Mary Church, Huntingburg;
• St. Henry Church, St. Henry;
• St. John Chrysostom Church, New Boston;
• St. Anthony Church, St. Anthony.
Happy Birthday!
Father Tony Ernst, director of newly ordained priests and pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Haubstadt, Holy Cross Church, Fort Branch, and St. Bernard Church, Snake Run, celebrates his birthday Jan. 15.
Deacon anniversary
Deacon Robert Hayden, Holy Redeemer Church, Evansville, was ordained Jan. 19, 1991.
Student teacher
Good Shepherd School will welcome a student teacher during the second semester. Thomas Fithian will be teaching in the fifth grade; he is a student at the University of Southern Indiana.
First place
Mater Dei junior Bailey Schnur has been awarded first place in the 13-18-year-old division in Going Over the Hurdles, a writing contest sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana in partnership with Indiana Humanities.
She and her parents were treated to lunch in Indianapolis where she read her winning essay "Something to Fight For," the story of Larry Bird.
Giving Tree
Each year, the pre-school students at St. Philip School in Posey County decorate a Giving Tree in their classroom, according to their teachers Kellie Montgomery-Keitel and Connie Wilzbacher.
They fill the tree with hats, mittens and gloves. This year’s items will be donated to the Albion Fellows Bacon Center. “The children donated 168 items to children that may not have sock hats or gloves to keep warm this winter. We believe here at St. Philip Preschool that it is important to teach the children that the holiday season is for giving and not just receiving.”
Retirement
“We would like to thank Bernice Reuber for her 14 years of dedicated service as St. Raphael parish secretary as she plans to retire,” writes Father Eugene Schmitt, pastor at St. Raphael and St. Peter Celestine Church in Celestine.
