In a continuing effort to provide college preparedness events and activities for students and parents, Incarnate Word Academy hosted its annual College Fair for Middle and High School Level students on Sept. 13 in the school’s Mother Patricia Gunning Gymnasium.

After a year in the making, the new Memorial Prayer Garden at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish opened with a special rite of blessing. The event was presided over by the Vicar General of the diocese, Father James Stembler, on Sept. 29. After the blessing, Father Stembler reminded those in attendance that our time with our loved ones is like “a sentence, followed by a comma, not a period. “We must never forget what comes next after our time here on earth —the promise of everlasting life.” 

Ten men in the Diocese of Corpus Christi are currently on the journey to the permanent diaconate. While the road leading to their calling as deacons is challenging, it is also filled with many memorable moments. One of these was the Institution of Lectors at the Mass of the Conferral of Ministries, celebrated by Bishop Michael Mulvey at Ss. Cyril & Methodius Parish on Sept. 30. 

 “We want this to be a community,” said Hailey Henry, Islander Catholic committee chairperson and 3rd year nursing student. This was how the IC officers began to introduce themselves to the approximately 40 students from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi gathered for the Newman kickoff dinner on Aug. 25. 

Incarnate Word Academy commemorated the anniversary of the death of Venerable Jeanne Chézard de Matel, the foundress of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament (IWBS), during a campus-wide Mass on Sept. 12.