People everywhere are struggling in these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic. So are the priests! However, the pandemic didn’t stop our brotherhood as priests; it rather emphasized the need for us to get together.
Vocations
Two seminarians accepted as candidates for the priesthood
In December 2020, two of the Diocese of Owensboro’s seminarians took their next step toward being ordained to the diocesan priesthood.
Holy Spirit parishioner ‘trusting in the Lord’ as he experiences first year of seminary
At a young age, I saw the priesthood as a possible path I could take in life but being so young, the priesthood felt the same as any other cool occupation like being an astronaut or firefighter. It wasn’t until my sophomore year of high school, after attending NCYC (National Catholic Youth Conference) and meeting many religious, did I understood what living one’s vocation really meant.
Newly-ordained Deacon Corey D. Bruns looks forward to re-evangelizing a world – and Church – touched by pandemic
As Deacon Corey D. Bruns preached his first homily following his ordination to the transitional diaconate, he was surprised to find himself overcome with emotion.
Hope fulfilled: First ordination of a Burmese priest in the U.S. takes place May 23
Locust Street in front of St. Stephen Cathedral had an unusual sight in the late morning of May 23, 2020: a drive-by car parade of honking, cheering St. Pius X parishioners holding up homemade signs to congratulate Fr. Stephen Van Lal Than, who had been ordained just an hour or so earlier.
Local cloistered nuns explain how isolation can open ‘doorways to God’
A community of cloistered nuns living in a secluded corner of Daviess County have found that their already “social distancing” lifestyle can provide practical application for non-cloistered people trying to grow in their faith amid the COVID-19 pandemic.