Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:40
WICHITA – Holy Savior Catholic Academy is working with the Fundamental Learning Center, a not for profit organization located in Parklane Shopping Center, to benefit student achievement.
Fundamental Learning Center is one of only 18 certified training sites across the country for Alphabetic Phonics, a reading program that emphasizes specific instruction in speaking, reading, spelling, and writing.
Two years ago all of Holy Savior’s pre-K through second grade teachers were trained in the curriculum. Despite this program being written for small groups, the Academy had been implementing it with total group instruction.
This year, as part of the Neighborhood Literacy Initiative Project, Holy Savior had the opportunity to partner with the Fundamental Learning Center in a unique way. This gift allows transportation at different time intervals throughout the day for 40 kindergarten through fifth grade students to the Fundamental Learning Center for instruction while Holy Savior teachers instruct remaining students during that same time back at school.
Everyone has seen such amazing growth in the students in the past and is looking forward to increased results again this year.
The partnership was initially formed between the former assistant superintendent, Holly Goodwin, and Jane Hayes of the Center.
Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:10
Hutch concert Jan. 29 to benefit Catholic schools
A contemporary Christian music concert next weekend will benefit Hutchinson Catholic schools.
The concert, featuring local Christian band The Brian Davis Band, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Sunday Jan. 29, in the Historic Fox Theater.
All are invited to the free concert.
Bandleader Brian Davis first conceived the idea of a benefit concert in 2005 as a way to open the annual Catholic Schools Week and to raise funds for the local Catholic Schools’ music programs. The band fills the Fox Theater to capacity every year and has raised over $30,000 for the music programs at both Holy Cross Grade School and Trinity Catholic High School.
Thursday, 05 January 2012 13:09
By Bonnie Toombs
In February the Diocese of Wichita will host homeless men at Holy Savior Parish’s Gym. We need the help of many people to serve them well. Please consider helping in whatever way you as an individual can or with your parish or work group. Some needs include:
• A warm breakfast and a sack lunch. The men will be asked to eat dinner at The Lord’s Diner. In the evening we will have light foods for snacks.
• Food and fellowship. There are facilities for warming/cooking meals.
• 5:30 a.m. breakfast to be served at 6 a.m. Suggestions: biscuits and gravy, pancakes, sausage, egg casserole, oatmeal.
• 5:30 p.m. snack, to be served between 6 and 9 p.m., such as cheese and crackers, sandwiches, popcorn, apple slices, fruit bowl.
• Anytime: collect items for lunches, such as individual bags of chips, pudding cups, individual cracker packs, bread, peanut butter and jelly, and individually wrapped cookies.
• Prepare lunches
• Collect paper products to be used at the shelter. For example: sandwich bags, lunch sacks, plastic ware, paper plates, bowls, napkins, foil pans.
• Pray an hour of adoration or the rosary for an end to poverty
We are called as Catholics to perform corporal works of mercy because they connect the love of God with love of neighbor. The Holy Eucharist, which is “the source and summit of the Christian life” as the Second Vatican Council described it, moves us from sacramental union with Christ in his Eucharistic Body to union with Christ in his Mystical Body, in the least of his brothers and sisters.
This two-fold love, stemming from the Eucharist, is the fulfillment of the love of God and neighbor mentioned above. This two-fold Eucharistic love becomes the basis upon which to live our new life in Christ. To live fully in communion with Christ, we must reach out to our neighbor as well. I ask that you keep all those who are hungry, homeless, ill and without means to care for themselves in prayer.
Whatever your group can help with would be greatly appreciated.
The church’s love for the poor extends not only to material poverty but also to the many forms of cultural and religious poverty.
Thursday, 05 January 2012 12:15
Outdated missals, sacramentals buried under the future altar of the Cathedral
By Tracy Winslow
After the switch to a new Roman Missal on the First Sunday of Advent, many of the outdated missals were collected from throughout the Diocese of Wichita for proper disposal. The books and other items were buried Thursday, Dec. 22, on the church grounds of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Wichita.
“Whether or not the Sacramentary has been blessed by an official rite, it is appropriate to treat it with care,” the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Divine Worship stated at its website.
“Its disposal should be handled with respect.” The bishops’ liturgy office recommended burying the Sacramentary in an appropriate location on church grounds.
Also buried with the books were a few items that had been blessed but were no longer usable. Catholic tradition recommends burial to ensure that objects used in worship are not casually discarded or mistreated.
Items that are still useful, such as rosaries and other sacramentals in good shape, should be given away to a friend or family member.
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:52
By Christopher M. Riggs
The company working on the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception renovation proved it can tear things down, now they are proving they can put things back together.
Devin Carter, superintendent with Simpson & Associates, said last week that the sanctuary and transept floors have been removed in the Cathedral and that footings for the new altar, the stairs, and ramps have been poured. He added that stem walls that will support the sanctuary floor would soon be poured.
Workers are or will soon be crawling around in the attic of the Cathedral to rewire lights for the ceiling, he said, adding that lights will be installed in the next few weeks.
Much of the activity in the Cathedral in the next month will be in the altar and apse area where the radial steps will be formed, Carter said. In another month workers will install steel to support columns for the expanded choir balcony.
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:50
Bishop Michael O. Jackels will end his 18-month tour of the Diocese this weekend at St. Patrick Parish in Kingman.
• Dec. 17-18: St. Patrick, Kingman
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:46
Father Andy Kuykendall remembers waking up five years ago on St. Nicholas’ Feast Day, Dec. 6.
Like manna from heaven, nickels were strewn on the sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots throughout the campus of St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Schulte.
What looked like an answer to the pastor’s prayer regarding parish debt was actually a parish response to the Feast of St. Nicholas.
Tama Dutton, director of Faith Formation at St. Peter’s, said their pastor saw how excited the children were in finding the money on the ground wherever they looked – and he learned something about his parish.
“Every year, beginning with the opening of the old school, this tradition of a mysterious gifting by St. Nicholas has occurred,” she said.
Although Father Kuykendall tried to stay up late on the most recent eve of St. Nicholas’ Feast Day to see the “miraculous” event take place, Dutton said, he grew weary, fell asleep, and woke up to find the coins in place.
Dutton added that in a twist worthy of the television detective show CSI, it snowed that night yet only a single footprint was found.
“Good old St. Nick had once again been generous to one and all by spreading nickels everywhere!” she said.
On behalf of Fr. Kuykendall and the community of St. Peter the Apostle Parish, Dutton wished the entire diocesan family a blessed Christmas and a holy New Year.
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:32
The Confirmation Class of Holy Trinity in Little River raised money for St. Mary’s Catholic School in Joplin, Mo., as a stewardship project.
St. Mary’s church and school were destroyed by a tornado on May 22. St. Mary’s Catholic School has over 120 students from pre-K through 5th grade, and has been relocated in a warehouse until their new school and church are rebuilt.
Religious pictures of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, along with frames, were donated to the class. After the class assembled the pictures, they were made available at Holy Trinity in Little River, St. Paul’s in Lyons, and Holy Name in Bushton. The pictures were either given away or a suggested donation of $20 was collected. They also received a donation from the Holy Name Altar Society. A total of $1,445 was raised for the school.
In addition to raising money for the school, the confirmandi have also visited the elderly at the Sandstone Heights Nursing Home, provided games for the church’s hayrack ride and campfire supper, made lap blankets for the elderly in their parish and Sandstone Heights parishioners, and went Christmas caroling to shut-ins homes.
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:29
By Christopher M. Riggs
Sarah and Josh Holthusen recorded a Christmas CD a few years ago but they weren’t satisfied with it.
“We basically made it for our families,” Sarah said. “And they said, ‘Oh, can you make us another copy? We want to give it to so-and-so. So we made copies of it, but it wasn’t exactly what we wanted. It wasn’t up to par, where we thought it should be.”
So the idea of a Christmas album remained, a CD of several standard Christmas carols and a few original songs.
But the Holthusens, members of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, have a challenge when they record: They have four young boys who are rarely quiet and their humble recording studio is in their home.
“We have to wait until the boys are completely asleep,” Sarah said, “so sometimes we don’t even get started until 9 or 9:30 at night so, it’s quite the process.”
Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:26
A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe stolen about eight years ago from the front of Immaculate Conception Church in Danville has been recovered.
The wood statue was placed in an outdoor shrine sometime in the early to mid 1970s when Msgr. Thomas Glynn was pastor at Immaculate Conception. He purchased the statue during a trip to Mexico.
“About eight years ago it was stolen – much to the heartbreak of the parishioners at Danville,” said Father Michael Peltzer, pastor of the churches at Danville, Anthony, and Harper. “Over the years we’ve wondered what became of it until it was discovered last September in an abandoned building at Danville.”
The parish office received a phone call from the Harper County Sheriff’s Department on Sept. 15, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. “At first we thought, ‘Oh, somebody’s in trouble again,’” he said. “But, no, it wasn’t that, it was good news.”
Father Peltzer said he picked up the statue with joyful tears in his eyes. “The sheriff’s department was just great,” he said. “They said: “Here it is. It’s all yours. Give it a good home again.”
After a Wichita firm restored the statue, Father Peltzer blessed it, he said, in case it had been handled profanely.
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