The Ordination of Joseph Hastings to the Diaconate will be this Saturday, June 1 @ 10:00 am. The Ordination will be held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. We ask that all parishioners of the Diocese attend.
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ICCS Middle School Project Takes Science to Comics
Creative teaching propelled Periodic Table and social justice studies into a collaborative graphic and writing project for ICCS’s 5th- and 6th-grade students culminating with a published comic book. Fifth-grade teacher Dino Grisanti and 6th-grade teacher John Juniker joined forces to jump start the process. “He introduced the students to the Periodic Table and had them …
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The Sun Sets for Jubilee Schools – A Photo Journal by Karen Pulfer Focht
Jubilee Schools are closing this month. Facing enormous financial shortfalls, the Catholic Diocese of Memphis closed all of the Jubilee Schools after the 2018-19 school year. After a multimillion-dollar donation from an anonymous group of donors, the first Jubilee schools were opened in 1999 in hopes of educating some of the cities poorest children. The …
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St. Paul’s Last Week of School
St. Paul is not a jubilee school and will be one of the Catholic Schools in Memphis that will remain open.
St. Louis Youth Ministry Awards Annual Cole Harrison Smith Scholarships
St. Louis Catholic Church Youth Ministry is proud to announce this year’s winners of the annual Cole Harrison Smith Scholarships. A $3,000 scholarship and a $1,000 scholarship are awarded annually to two graduating seniors who have been active in parish youth ministry at St. Louis Parish and who most exemplify the values of our faith. …
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St. Louis Youth Ministry Celebrates Graduating Class of 2019
The senior high youth ministry at St. Louis Catholic Church recently hosted a farewell dinner and with the Class of 2019 graduates and their parents in the St. John Paul II Youth Ministry Center. Following dinner, seniors, Gerard Tavoleti and Kara Kane, represented the seniors with reflections on their time in youth ministry over the …
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Memphis Italian Festival to Offer Food, Music and More
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21, 2019 – The 30th annual Memphis Italian Festival is scheduled for Thursday, May 30 through Saturday, June 1 at Marquette Park, 4946 Alrose Ave. The family-friendly festival features Italian food, live music and a variety of games. The festival gates open May 30 at 4 pm with the Luigi 5K following …
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Bilingual Healing Mass at St. Mary’s
To celebrate Pentecost Jubilation 2019, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Memphis Diocese (CCRMD) is sponsoring a bilingual Mass for Healing at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Jackson, on Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. The concelebrants will be Fr. Richard Cortese, Msgr. Al Kirk, and Fr. Tojan Abraham. Praise and Worship music begins at 6:45. Prayer teams …
St. Augustine First Holy Communion 2019 – Photos by Karen Pulfer Focht, photojournalist
SFA Honored with First Annual Jeans Day Plaque
May 17, 2019 – For the first time this year, Catholic Charities of West Tennessee invited Catholic schools in our area to engage in a little friendly fundraising competition by hosting a Jeans Day benefitting Catholic Charities and the work they do to help the needy members in our community. The school that raised the …
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