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“Campaign 2020”, the annual On-Air fundraiser benefiting 89.5HD K L U X will take to the air on Monday morning March 2nd.  The 5-day event is the primary fundraiser for the local non-commercial station.  Local dignitaries, guests, station personalities and volunteers will be making appeals and manning the phones, taking pledges from listeners during each of three daily segments during the campaign.  

During “ad limina” visits, which usually occur every five years, bishops from every region in the world are called to meet with the pope. This meeting with the pope is a concrete expression of that unity between the apostles with Peter in Jesus Christ. The purpose of the visit is twofold – the bishops are also encouraged to pray in the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Bishop Michael Mulvey and Bishop Emeritus Edmond Carmody touched down in Rome on Jan. 18 for the bishops “ad limina” visit, to pray and also to report on the status of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in meetings with other Region X bishops, the pope and Vatican officials.

The 5th Annual St. Elizabeth School 5K Glow Run is Friday, March 6 at the Alice Municipal Golf Course. The annual run holds a standing record as the largest 5K in Alice – over 800 people registered last year.

Father “RJ” Ramiro Regalado, Jr. and Program Manager and ASL interpreter, Celia Mendez, led a group of “special hearts” in prayer at the Ash Wednesday service for Catholic Charities Ministry & Life Enrichment for Persons with Disabilities and their families on Feb. 26.

Instead of giving something up for Lent, Msgr. Seamus McGowen suggested that we “be kind to each other.” His suggestion was not lost on client Carl Slyker and many others who visited the Mother Teresa Shelter on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Under the leadership of District Master Dan Norman, the Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree Our Lady of Guadalupe Province 4th District of Texas held a Fourth Degree Exemplification and celebrated the 120th Anniversary of Fourth Degree Knights at St. George Church in George West on Feb. 22.

The Office of Social Ministry is working closely with volunteers as well as priests, deacons and religious sisters to coordinate Ash Wednesday services at the jails, prisons and detention centers in the diocese.

Get ready to “Laissez les bons temps rouler” (“Let the good times roll!”) with the Beeville Ladies Night Out Committee and the CHRISTUS Spohn Health System Foundation as they celebrate Mardi Gras.

On Feb. 3 the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) based in Austin presented Maldonado with $500 and a plaque for being year’s Technology Administrator of the Year award. Maldonado is the director of technology for schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.