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Happening ... in the Local Church
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LOOKING BACK |
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These stories appeared in The Catholic Moment and its predecessor, the Lafayette edition of Our Sunday Visitor: |
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• 50 years ago, May 4, 1958: About 40 girls are volunteering at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette to help prepare a temporary chapel for the students to attend daily Mass. Girls in the service organization have made the curtains hanging behind the altar; scrubbed floors; painted walls; wash and iron the church linens; prepare the altar for Mass, and help raise funds for needed materials. |
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• 25 years ago, May 1, 1983: Bishop George A. Fulcher will ordain four deacons to the diocesan priesthood on May 7 at St. Mary Cathedral, Lafayette. They are Robert Bernotas, Philip Mahalic, Theodore Rothrock and Peter Vanderkolk. |
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• 10 years ago, May 3, 1998: St. John the Evangelist Church, Hartford City, celebrates its 100th anniversary with a Mass and the dedication of a monument to the unborn. The monument was donated by the Monsignor Emil Schweier Council of the Knights of Columbus. |
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• Five years ago, May 4, 2003: Our Lady of Grace Parish, Noblesville, celebrates the dedication of its bell tower. Knights of Columbus Council 9706 funded the $25,000 “Knights’ Tower” with many fish fries held over the course of 10 years. |