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How Should Christians Prepare to Vote?

Pastor Jack Hibbs joins Kirk Cameron to examine how Christians can prepare to vote in the upcoming mid-term elections. Should the church simply sit out of elections in an effort to not mix religion into politics? Pastor Jack explains the Bible's response to that question and much more.

Kirk Cameron

Ascension Presents

Please Pray for Vocations!

Below we list the latest seminarian roster (to be updated soon) and the diaconate formation rosters, as well as a full parish directories (with church locations) of both Vicariates in the Diocese.

Diocese Vocation Page

Cameron Riecker

Sept 2025: Mary Ann Skinger, Alison Wilson, George Brown

Oct 2025: Barbara Imhoff

Nov 2025: Mary Frances Lerch, Shirley Dickson, Richard Nolan

Dec 2025: Janice Steinhauser, Frank Lowe

Jan 2026: Allen Schomaker

Feb 2026: Virginia Briski, Laura DiCola

March 2026: Sister Celeste Hupert, Michael Van Leer, Barbara Davis

April 2026: Sr Carol Troesch, Marie Adams, Barbara Fuerst, Judith Scott, Jane Welka, Paul Walsh

May 2026: John Staudacher, Dennis McLean, Pauline Zelina, Joseph Kaib, Martha Foster

July 2026: Frank LoPresti, Theresa Henderson

Aug 2026: Vivian Castiglioni, Sr Therese Martin Blehar, Lorene Bauer

Sept 2026: Shirley Kohler, Fr Peter Murphy, John Eichenlaub

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."
-1 John 4:16

Dutch theologian Henri Nouwen says that there is a first love and a second love when it comes to love in our lives.

The first love is God's love, an unmerited, undying love that says you're not what you do, you're not what you have, and you're not what people say about you. You're a child of God and nothing else matters. If you get the highest grades in life, if you fill your room with trophies, if you make lots of money, and if you do all sorts of great charitable works and wonderful things, that will not cause God to love you more. And if you do all sorts of heinous things, live a selfish life full of debauchery, or hurt your neighbor. If you never live up to your parents' expectations or to the expectations of your co-workers or friends or kids. If your life is in shambles, you've lost everything, are at the end of your rope, broken, never having succeeded at anything. Any or all of those things does not cause God's love to diminish for you at all.

The second love is the affection, sympathy, encouragement, that comforting hand, that brotherly love that we have in our daily lives with our friends, spouses, families. That second love is a good thing, but we all know how limited this kind of love is, that there's a line we can cross that will cause people in our lives to stop loving us.

But God's love, the first love, never fails.

-Dr David Jeremiah

Step Back and Reflect - An Essay

Memory Lane!

It's Halloween Party Season! Back in the day at St Athanasius, we used to have an annual "Trunk or Treat" event. Funny thing is, the weather was never favorable enough for us to go outside and do it in the parking lot making use of the trunk of our cars! These pictures taken in Athanasian Hall were from 2016. If we see that we get enough clicks on these pictures, we'll dig out the pictures from 2017 for next week!