For 100 years, Catholic Rural Life has promoted Catholicism throughout rural areas of the U.S. While the ministry is based in Minnesota, there are religious order men and women supporting this integral mission in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Sister Christine Pratt, with the Ursulines of Brown County, has been a …

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Catholic Rural Life of St. Marys and Sidney Deaneries honored Catholic families who have farmed and nurtured the same land for 100 years or more. Recipients of these awards were honored at the 2019 Rural-Urban Mass on July 18. Bishop Joseph Binzer celebrated Mass. This year …

On Thursday, July 19, 2018, many of the faithful gathered at Doug & Sarah Franck’s Farm in Saint Henry Oh for the annual Rural Urban Farm Mass. Check out the video of that wonderful evening:

Here are some very unique views of the 2018 Rural Farm Mass in Saint Henry. Ohio.

This week’s Throwback Thursday’s video looks at the wonderful rural area of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and we look forward to next week’s annual Rural-Urban Farm Mass. Next week Rural-Urban Farm Mass When: Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Where: Doug and Sarah Franck’s Farm, 5750 Carthagena Rd, St. …

Thomas Jefferson was quoted as saying “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” Every summer, Catholic Rural Life of the St. Marys and Sidney Deaneries hold the Rural-Urban Mass with Catholic Century Farm Recognitions. Usually the Mass …

A seemingly endless expanse of blue sky and fields. A landscape dotted with barns, silos, grazing livestock and old family farmhouses. This is the scene that greets visitors to rural areas in the northern part of the archdiocese, in this case outside Fort Loramie, where six generations of the Hoying …

A farming family west of Celina, will welcome Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Binzer, as well as Catholics, from the St. Marys and Sidney deaneries to this year’s Rural-Urban Mass July 27, at 7 pm. The bishop will say Mass at the Vian farm at 7390 SR 118, west of Celina. …

Report A farming family in Botkins, Ohio, will welcome Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Binzer, as well as Catholics from the St. Mary’s and Sidney deaneries to this year’s Rural-Urban Mass, July 23, at 6:30 pm. The bishop will say Mass at the farm of Joe and Joanna Goettemoeller, 13775 Lock …

By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph  Imagine living on the same land for more than 175 years, land passed down from generation to generation, providing your family’s livelihood and a place to call home in what is truly God’s country. Such is the case with Urban and Mary Louise …