Fr. Ken Pleiman, C.PP.S., received his fourth degree from the Knights of Columbus on February 3. Fr. Pleiman, who is in ministry with Dayton’s Region Seven parishes, also serves as chaplain for K. of C. Council 500 in Dayton. “The Knights encouraged and endorsed my...
Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel, and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name. (Acts 9: 15-16) St. Paul was the most unlikely convert to the Church. We can also say he...
Now there was an Ethiopian … Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him. (Acts 8: 27-31) Life flows...
I am the Bread of Life, he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never thirst. (John 6: 35) These simple yet profound words of Jesus are echoed over and over in the Gospel of John, as he continually wants to draw us daily into a closer...
Companion Pat Woods (Columbus) didn’t expect to find another job when she retired from her job as a data processing application specialist. Then she saw a notice in January 2002 that the food pantry at her parish, St. James the Less in Columbus, needed a pantry...
