August 17, 2022 – CAJE Update

Good morning and Happy Wednesday! We apologize if you are receiving this email a second time. We had a problem with the original distribution list this morning.
We hope this email finds you all healthy. The latest variant of Covid-19 has made the rounds with CAJE staff and some of our Justice Ministry Leaders. Please pray for everyone’s full recovery – and for the recovery of our co-chair Pamela Decker who had surgery late last month.
It may seem like a “slow” time in the organization but there is much going on…

1. CAJE staff and a few talented congregational leaders have been working on
several grant applications. We covet your prayers that our requests will be accepted.
We hope to hire a Spanish-speaking Associate Organizer in the spring or summer of 2023! Our Hispanic/Latino brothers and sisters need to be empowered to “do justice” through the grassroots strategies of CAJE. An organizer fluent in Spanish would help us to achieve that goal.
2. We are awaiting to hear more information regarding the county funding for the
Evansville Diversion Center. We will send out an update as soon as we hear
something.

3. We are a little more than halfway to our Congregational Investment Drive goal of $80,000. Please prayerfully consider an investment – or increase of your pledge.
There are two easy ways to give.
1. Mail you check (or set up a monthly check distribution through your financial
institution) to:
CAJE
PO Box 18172
Evansville IN 47719
2. Visit our website to invest through squarespace:
www.greaterevansvillecaje.org/invest. Your investment is sent to CAJE in just a few
clicks!

3. Our annual Listening Process Kick Off is less than a month away! Tuesday
September 13, our Team Captains will participate in a local Listening Process
training. Our Listening Sessions will be conducted from September 14 – October
14.
If you are a Team Captain who has yet to schedule your House Meeting, please
contact your Organizer ASAP.

4. Speaking of October 14: Our Inaugural Justice Ministry Retreat has been
rescheduled for Friday October 14, 10 am – 6pm at the Lakeside Shelter,
Burdette Park. Please consider joining us for a day of faith, fun, and foundational relationship building. Contact Amy or Yvonne for details.
5. IMPORTANT:  Tonight’s interactive ratepayer parade, hosted by DAACE has been indefinitely postponed. We will conduct our monthly prayer vigil, just west of CenterPoint headquarters on Thursday August 25.
 
In Solidarity,
 
CAJE Staff


Congregations Acting for Justice and Empowerment (CAJE)
734 W. Delaware St., Suites 236 & 238
Evansville IN 47710
812-760-3700
We are sending this email because it is a convenient time for our staff. Please note that we do not expect a reply from you outside of your own work hours.

SIENNA EVENTS

Subject:  SIENA

Meetings are held at St. Johns Daylight from 2-4 p.m. Attached are copies of upcoming events and event forms. If you have already signed an image form (a signature anywhere on the paper verifying you read and agree is perfect!), you will not need to do so again, but the event form will need to be filled out for each meeting.

We are so excited to share these events with each of you. Bring an open heart and a friend!




August 01, 2022 – Evansville Vocations Update




SO MANY GOOD THINGS THIS SUMMER!
What a summer it has been! So many good things have happened in building and fostering a culture of vocations in our diocese. Here are some highlights.
Most of our seminarians spent their summers in parishes. Two of our men, Philip Rogier and Caleb Scherzinger, ministered in hospitals in Louisville and Indianapolis, learning how to pray with the sick, to comfort the suffering, and to bring hope to the family of the dead. Tyler Underhill, Bradley Gehlhausen, Keith Hart, Aaron Herrenbruck, and Nathan Folz each are finishing up their parish assignments in Evansville, Vincennes, Daylight, Dale and Jasper. Nick Biever enjoyed six weeks studying in Rome before a parish assignment in Posey County, and Chase Reicker and Jacob Schneider moved back into the House of Discernment for the summer while working in the Evansville area.
Our seminarian cohort is growing 60% this fall. We have six new seminarians added to our ten who were in formation in May 2022. Thank you, parents and parishioners, for encouraging your sons and fellow parishioners to discern their vocations. The names and parishes of these men will be released in The Message as the fall semester unfolds, and you will see their photos on posters in your parishes and schools.
Our Savio community continues to attract and form young men as disciples. In June, Savio guys celebrated the anniversary of the death of Servant of God, Bishop Simon Bruté with a visit and Mass at his tomb at St Francis Xavier Parish in Vincennes. An afternoon of ice skating on the hot June 26th day followed. More than 40 Savio guys, seminarians, and House residents attended.
Earlier in June, several pairs of Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia Motherhouse in Nashville, Tennessee assisted with Bible schools at parishes across the diocese. On June 14, eleven of them gathered with their superior, Mother Anna Grace, OP, at Oak Meadow Country Club to meet more than a hundred of the faithful and priests from the Diocese. The presence of the Sisters was warmly welcomed by all!
A group of six young adult women formed a discernment group this summer. Maria Lasher and Abby Thompson lead the group who met weekly to pray, talk, watch discernment videos and to help one another find where the Lord is calling each of them. As part of their community, they traveled to visit the Nashville Dominican Sisters, the community where Maria Lasher of Good Shepherd Parish has been accepted for August 2022. Kelli Reutman from St. Isidore the Farmer Parish in Celestine will also follow her vocation with the Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus in New Ulm, Minnesota this August. Let us pray for these young women!
July hosted several events for vocations. First, on July 19-21, 20 young men gathered for the second-annual “St. John Berchmans Master of Ceremonies Training Camp” at the House of Discernment. House residents and seminarians facilitated the formation of these parish servers from all over the diocese. Director of the Office of Worship, Matt Miller, along with Father Andrew Thomas and Father Anthony Vinson, OSB, also gave presentations. Attendees received a red cassock – like the one worn by the patron of altar servers, Saint John Berchmans – to take home and wear as they MC and serve parish and diocesan Masses in the coming years.
The second big event in July was the second-annual “Cleric Cup” volleyball tournament. According to one attendee’s count, more than 300 people attended. The July 24 Sunday evening started at Sts. Peter & Paul Parish in Haubstadt with Mass, and the tourney followed. After an opening set of games pitting Savio guys against Siena girls, four teams competed for the title: priests, seminarians, current and former House residents, and Savio guys. After six hard-fought games, the House team prevailed over the Savio team in the championship at the Haubstadt Old Gym.
A third gathering for vocations included our young women. “Siena” is a new community of faith formation and discernment for our high school and middle school girls. Modeled after the diocesan “Savio” brotherhood, the 25 girls gathered for prayer, formation and community at the Parish Life Center at Sts. Peter and Paul before the Cleric Cup Mass and tourney. More information can be obtained by signing up for email updates at EvansvilleVocations.org/siena.
Savio Nights for the new school year also began on Sunday, July 31. A record-high total of 100 high school and junior high guys attended, enjoying pizza and sports before a faith formation talk by House Director, Father Tyler Tenbarge, about the life of Saint Dominic Savio. Night Prayer concluded the evening inside Sacred Heart Church. The next Savio Night is August 21. To register, visit EvansvilleVocations.org/savio.
Finally, continue to join us for our regular Monday Night “Holy Hour & Mass for Vocations” at Sacred Heart Church. Adoration and Confession starts at 6:30pm. Mass follows at 7:30pm. If you know of someone interested in the House or discernment, please contact Director of Vocations, Father Tyler Tenbarge, by visiting www.EvansvilleVocations.org.

July 27, 2022 – Family & Life eNews August Update

DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE
OFFICE OF FAMILY & LIFE eNEWS
 
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INTERESTED IN STARTING A SURVIVING DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP IN YOUR PARISH OR AREA OF THE DIOCESE?  CONTACT ERIC GIRTEN AT EGIRTEN@EVDIO.ORG.
There was GREAT turnout (despite the heat) for the 1st ever NFP Picnic.  This year’s event was at Friedman Park in Newburgh, IN.  If you would like more information about Natural Family Planning (NFP) or would like to be notified of other NFP events like this one, go to https://www.evdio.org/natural-family-planning.html
Grace Marriage is a parish based enrichment program for married couples that allows them to meet for four hours every 3 months to focus just on themselves.  There are free sample workbooks in the Family and Life Office.  For more information, contact egirten@evdio.org

Red Bird Ministries is a Catholic, pro-life/pro-family grief support ministry that focuses on bereaved families who have experienced child loss of any age and circumstance, including pregnancy loss through miscarriage and stillbirth, and after birth as an infant, child, adolescent, or adult. 

We are starting a Red Bird Ministries program in the diocese.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Eric Girten at egirten@evdio.org.

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY 305 CHILDREN IN NEED OF FOSTER CARE IN VANDERBURGH COUNTY ALONE AND THERE ARE ONLY 89 LICENSED HOMES?  THIS LEAVES 216 CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO BE PLACED OUTSIDE OF THE AREA OR IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS.
WAYS A PARISH CAN BECOME FOSTER FRIENDLY…
  • ENCOURAGE FAMILIES TO PRAY ABOUT BECOMING FOSTER FAMILIES
  • RAISE AWARENESS
  • PROVIDED WRAP AROUND SERVICES OR SUPPORT FOR FOSTER FAMILIES

Why Become a Foster Friendly Faith Community?

  • Justice, mercy and grace are themes throughout scripture and most faith traditions.
  • People of faith already care deeply about these issues. Statistics show practicing Christians are three times more likely to foster and twice as likely to adopt compared to the general population.
  • Foster care is a non-partisan, unifying issue.
  • Foster care is an upstream issue. It is at the root of a number of current-day social wounds, including homelessness, sex trafficking, suicide and more.

Are you ready to learn how your faith community can take the next steps to become Foster Friendly?

Get started.

JOIN THE DIOCESAN CHOIR FOR THE UPCOMING DEACON ORDINATION

Please consider joining the Diocesan Choir for the permanent deacon ordination on Saturday, August 13. The Diocesan Choir is open to singers from every parish in the Diocese of Evansville. The ability to read music is helpful but not required. It’s a great opportunity for parish choir members and cantors to come together and experience some beautiful musical prayer.

Practices for the ordination are held at St. Benedict Cathedral Church (1328 Lincoln Ave., Evansville):

  • 2-4 p.m. CDT            July 31
  • 6-7:30 p.m. CDT      Aug. 2
  • 2-4 p.m. CDT            Aug. 7
  • 6-7:30 p.m. CDT      Aug. 9
For more information, please email Jeremy Korba at jkorba@evdio.org or call 812-589-3886.
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July 11, 2022 – Constant Contact Update

SUMMER SOCIAL
2022
WE ARE IN NEED OF DESSERTS FOR THE DINNERS. PLEASE BRING DESSERTS TO THE PARISH HALL ON SATURDAY!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE !
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR EARLY BIRD WINNER!
RON AND MARY RILEY
Ron and Mary won $100 for turning in their packet by July 1.
Thank you to all who turned in their packet to be entered in the drawing.
If you still have your packet, it’s not too late to turn in your tickets.
Please turn in tickets and money to the parish office.
Mass Times for Summer Social weekend….
Saturday, July 16: NO MASS
Sunday, July 17: 7:30 AM
10:30 AM
5:30 PM
CHECK AND CASH ONLY
**NO CREDIT CARD**
WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE SUMMER SOCIAL
THIS YEAR. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
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