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Faith and Culture

How Can Christians Engage the Culture?

“If you are not taking your Christianity into the culture and into every cultural issue, you’re not living out your faith.” In this message, New York Times Bestselling Author Eric Metaxas talks about what’s happening in the church and our culture. There are many ways our nation has fallen far from the Lord, but things are happening in America that we have been praying for, for decades. We are in the middle of a cultural earthquake, and the Lord is depending on the Church to be His foot soldiers."

Culture and Christianity

The Beat with Allen Parr

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

Ascension Presents

June 2025: Robert Koch, Patricia Buck, Joseph Ianotta, Charles Baer, Ralph Buzzelli

July 2025: Lucy Paulin, Clara Bayne

Aug 2025: Mary Bauer, Ronald Rademacher

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

When we pray, I believe that in all of us, there is one portion of our heart that doubts, and one portion of our heart that believes. I don’t think there’s any person that believes with their whole entire being when they pray, and I think that’s okay. I know that’s okay, actually. Because Jesus taught us that if you have the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains. I interpret this Scripture to mean this: If a lot of me doubts and just a little part of me believes, God can use the little tiny bit if I give it to Him. Not only can He use it, He will use it. And He’ll grow that little bit of faith into a lot of faith. Faith pleases God.

- Pastor Bobby Schuller

Step Back and Reflect - An Essay

Memory Lane!

The precursor to OLMC's "Pray and Picnic in the Park" was the "Mass and a Meal". These pictures are from 2019 and 2020 from various times of the year. Back then, though we intended to house these events outside, we tended to end up indoors in the friendly confines of Athanasian Hall.

Below the pictures, we've left up our "Festival Singers" video for one more week!