Preparing for the college years:
Ecclesiastes tells us “there is a time for everything under the sun.” As parents, acceptance of “letting go” is essential to development in our families. Growing comfortable with the idea of transition, there is a frequent action of passing the torch from our hands to the ha...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Standing up to 'weisure'
An essay in The New Yorker on workload today referenced renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, who, in the 1930s, projected the forthcoming of a three-hour workday due to the rise in living standards and incomes. In 1964, observing unprecedented conveniences in the office, home and on the road, Li...Read full story »
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Visiting a 'Saintly' relative
When she arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., Delphine LeBrun could hardly contain her excitement. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, is an ancestor of Delphine’s – whose father’s paternal grandmother was the great...Read full story »
Thursday, August 17, 2017
New School Year Brings Emphasis on being 'Called to Serve'
August is an exciting time for families, especially those who have children enrolled in pre-school and kindergarten. For many of these students, this will be their first time in Catholic schools – Welcome! For our seniors, the Class of 2018, this will be your final year in high school, and I...Read full story »
Thursday, August 10, 2017
FOCUS-ing on God's Call
One of the Diocese of Evansville’s young disciples recently accepted God’s call to serve as a missionary. Branson Schroeder, a lifelong member of Resurrection Parish in Evansville and a 2013 graduate of Mater Dei High School, will be a campus missionary at Indiana University this fall w...Read full story »
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Monastery of St. Clare home to many relics
As a final installment in The Message’s special series on relics in the Diocese of Evansville, this article explores the immense collection of relics housed at the Monastery of St. Clare on Evansville’s west side. Founded in 1884, the Monastery of St. Clare is the third mon...Read full story »
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Raffle puts fun in Haitian Fundraiser
When is a road not a road? When it is in Haiti. A road that is more like a gully, while standard for Haitian thoroughfares, is not good for any vehicle. Trucks and SUVs wear out under the strain, as do many Haitians – where life expectancy is less than 64 years. Flooding, la...Read full story »
Thursday, August 03, 2017
Benedictine Father Barnabas Gillespie passes away
Benedictine Father Barnabas Gillespie, 70, a monk and priest of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and former associate pastor of St. Benedict Cathedral Parish in Evansville, died on July 28 at the monastery. He was a jubilarian of profession and priesthood. Father Gillespie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on A...Read full story »
Thursday, August 03, 2017
Opening Days of Classes for Diocese of Evansville Catholic Schools
Aug. 3 Holy Redeemer, Evansville Washington Catholic Elementary Washington Catholic Middle & High School Aug. 8 Annunciation Catholic School, Christ the King Campus, Evansville Annunciation Catholic School, Holy Spirit Campus, Evansville Corpus Christi, Evansville Good Shepherd, Evansville Holy...Read full story »
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Images of Mary? Attend daughter's wedding?
Q. I am wondering how the common representation of Mary in art form came to be. Whether in Nativity scenes, statues or paintings, she is usually shown as being Caucasian (or at least European), with a pale complexion and hair that is almost blond. Shouldn't she be depicted instead as dark-skinned,...Read full story »
Thursday, July 27, 2017
