Legion Of Mary Gathering

Members of the Legion of Mary from across the archdiocese gathered yesterday for a meeting and social.

Archbishop Curtiss was on hand for the 

festivities which included a violinist.

It was great to have our parish chapter of the Legion of Mary host this event with help from our American Heritage Girls and others.

Memorial Day 2014

Memorial Day Masses will be held at each of the five archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries on May 26 at 10:00 a.m. The celebrants are listed below. 
        
Calvary Cemetery-Archbishop George Lucas
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery-Rev. John Pietramale
Resurrection Cemetery-Archbishop Elden Francis Curtis
Saint Mary Magdalene Cemetery-Father Joseph Taphorn
Saint Mary Cemetery-Rev. William Safranek

In addition Fr. Steve will celebrate Mass in our church at 9:00 a.m.

Our Bishops Met

This week the US Bishops gathered in Baltimore earlier this week. There they heard from apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò who encouraged them to be witnesses of Christ. He said, "Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers."

Also during the week, our Archbishop George Lucas was elected by his fellow bishops to Chair of the Committee on Education.

There are currently 265 active and 180 retired Bishops in the United States. Archbishop Elden Curtiss was among the retired bishops attending.

Bishop Christopher Coyne (@bishopcoyne) tweeted some picture from the conference including the one above and two below. Above he shows his view at the conference.

Here he shows how much space the bishops had at their seats.

Above is the device bishops would use to cast their votes.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley decribed the conference in his blog:

There was also time spent at the conference on the situation in the Philippines and how the Catholics of the United States might assist them, both through prayer and monetary contributions, in relief and rebuilding efforts.

Perhaps one of the most widely anticipated actions we took during our meeting was the election of our new president, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky who will succeed Cardinal Dolan in that position. ...

Of course, the issue of the HHS mandate was also discussed at the meeting, and on the final day of the conference, we released a Special Message on the issue that I want to share with you here:

20 Years Ago Today

It was 20 years ago today that Eldon Lauber was ordained by Archbishop Elden Curtiss was ordained as a deacon and assigned to his parish, St. Columbkille.

Thank you for your service!

Celebrating some deacons

Archbishops George Lucas and Eldon Curtiss were on hand as the diaconate community of the Omaha Archdiocese celebrated deacons who had hit milestone years of service to the diocese. The picture above is of those who were ordained 10 years ago, including Deacon Mike Leick who was ordained in our parish.

 Also honored for 10 years were two couples still serving

 our parish, Deacon John Zurek and his wife Connie ...

... as well as Deacon Bill Hill and his wife Kathy.

Congratulations and

thank you for your service

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day Masses will be held at each of the five archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries on May 30 at 10:00 a.m. Archbishop George Lucas will be the celebrant at Calvary Cemetery and Archbishop Emeritus Elden Curtiss will celebrate Mass at Resurrection Cemetary. Those attending should bring a lawn chair along for seating.

On Memorial Day we will have just one Mass at 9:00 a.m. tomoat St. Columbkille.