June 8, 2011 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — On May 5 four seminarians from the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary visited with students in the junior sacraments classes at McNicholas High School to discuss their vocations. First year seminarians Ethan Moore and Peter Langenkamp spoke with Paula Yerke’s …

June 8, 2011 By Marnie McAllister TRAPPIST, Ky.  — Since the 1940s when acclaimed writer and contemplative Father Thomas Merton drew the world’s attention to the Trappists’ Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson County, men have come from around the world to join in its ritual life of prayer and work.

June 7, 2011 By Jeanne Hunt Abba is the name Jesus used for His father. It can mean “Daddy” in Aramaic. It may seem a bit immature for a grown man to call his father “Daddy.” My kids outgrew “Daddy” around eight years old when it was not cool to …

June 12, 2011 By Sister Betty J. Lillie, SC Pentecost Sunday:  Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104: 1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. Let us take as a focus for this reflection the spirit of the feast of Pentecost as we hear it in our first reading. As …

June 7, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Precious Blood Sister Madonna Winkeljohn was celebrated June 1 at Salem Heights, the congregation’s central house in Dayton. Sister Madonna, 95, died May 28 at the Maria Joseph Center. She had been a Sister of the Precious Blood for 76 years.

June 7, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Dolores Stephans was celebrated June 3 at Mount Notre Dame Convent chapel. Sister Dolores, 79, died May 30 at the Mount Notre Dame Health Center. She was a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for …

June 7, 2011 BALTIMORE — Cecil “Chic” Davis, longtime advertising director and general manager of The Catholic Review in Baltimore, died May 31. He was 71.

June 8, 2011 Local Briefs Peter’s Pence Collection scheduled ARCHDIOCESE — The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will hold the Peter’s Pence Collection the weekend of June 25-25.

June 1, 2011 By David Eck ST. MARGARET MARY DEANERY — For more than a decade members of St. Therese Little Flower Parish in Mt. Airy have been building a relationship with the Sisters of Divine Providence ministering in the rural areas of Madagascar.

June 1, 2011 DAYTON DEANERY — Members of Ascension Parish in Kettering gathered May 15 for the “Fiesta Latina,” a benefit for Nuestra Senora de la Luz (Our Lady of the Light) Parish in Lima, Peru. The event was sponsored by Ascension’s Twinning Committee and the Knights of Columbus Our …