Bishop Joseph R. Binzer will celebrate this rite for people being baptized and confirmed this Easter. All welcome, family and friends especially encouraged to attend.

Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate this rite for people being baptized and confirmed this Easter. (Note: Dayton and Springfield Deaneries will participate in this celebration.) All welcome, family and friends especially encouraged to attend.

“Come Watch With Me: The Perfect Storm” Join with Mike Davis, Director of Pastoral Care at Bayley Place, in prayer, meditation and music as you walk the Via Dolorosa/Way of the Cross in the church Sanctuary, focusing on the life, death, and ultimate resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus …

A contemplative prayer service developed by a unique community of monks in France, Taize prayer uses chants and other simple melodies. This candlelit prayer event will last approximately 45 minutes.

Pancake supper at Newport Lounge (in Hailstones Hall) and prayer service at Bellarmine Chapel. Supper includes activities for adults and children. Following an ancient Catholic tradition, the “alleluia” will be buried outdoors at the prayer service and the palms from last spring will be burned for Ash Wednesday ashes. Space …

Area Catholics invited to a two-day Parish Mission at St. John the Evangelist and St. Savior. Join Jeanne Hunt, Mary Malloy, and Miriam & Friends for a two-night parish mission focusing on the Stations of the Cross. Through Scripture, story, song, and prayer, they will extend the Church’s Lenten invitation …

Celebrate “Pancake Tuesday” early at St. John the Evangelist Church!

An early Mardi Gras celebration with appetizers from Reef Top restaurant, tastings from Meranda Nixon Winery and Cavalier Beer Distributors, more. Call (513) 753-2548 or register online.

Although he serves as pastor for St. John and St. Lewis Parish in Portsmouth on the picturesque island of Dominica, Father Herman Sharplis has discovered a “home away from home” in Piqua, where he recently concluded a whirlwind visit with parishioners of  twinning parishes at St. Mary and St. Boniface …

Treatises on discernment are many and varied throughout the great tradition of the church. There are spiritual masters who have written whole books on how to discern your vocation and many who have written books on the spiritual masters who have written about discernment. Yet, the common problem that we …