Please pray for our 106 candidates for the Sacrament of Confirmation which will be conferred on 8 November.

Our church directory will not be complete without you. Please join us and help celebrate faith and family with our new church family directory. Schedule your professional photography session when you stop by the sign-up table at the church or simply go online and follow the instructions mailed to you. If we don't see your name on our list of appointments, you will receive a phone call inviting you to participate. Everyone who is photographed by Universal will receive a complimentary 8 x 10 portrait and a directory! Go to https://www.ucdir.com/, click on schedule button, and use KY394 as user and photos as password to schedule your session.

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is the way people are initiated into the Christian way of life, specifically in the Roman Catholic tradition. It is a journey of discovery, where participants come to know Jesus Christ. It is a process of awakening to what it means to be a Catholic Christian. It is an opportunity to explore the Catholic faith. It is a period of discernment to help each individual freely decide if the Catholic Church can be the place to call home. The RCIA is a focused experience of the ever-deepening journey into the life of faith, which is the task of a lifetime. RCIA is for adults who have never been baptized, those who have been baptized in another Christian denomination, and even those baptized as a Catholic who were unable to continuing learning about the faith. New sessions begin August 31st!

Join us for the best festival in the world July 14-16, 2023 here at IHM. Friday 6 - midnight; Saturday 5 - midnight; Sunday 4 to 10 PM.

Enjoy this special faith learning resource as a gift from your Parish! "Deacon Greg used FORMED to present the most recent study group session, The Bible and The Virgin Mary. The information was so clear that my typical response to each session was, "aha!", and was so thorough that I came away without questions but instead an affirmation of my faith. FORMED gave me the impression of having a Catholic library right at my fingertips, just type in a topic or scroll through the thumbnails to get more details on anything that is on your mind." --Connie Wolfe, IHM Parishioner

Our parish survey has been extended until April 3rd to give members more time to have their survey counted.

Do you love working with little children? Are you gifted at keeping them entertained while teaching them about our Faith, or at least willing to give it a try? If yes (or even maybe), then this volunteer opportunity is for you! Our Sunday School Program will need a new Coordinator for the 2023/2024 school year. The program takes place during the 9:00am and 10:45am Masses. We need 1 or 2 volunteers to oversee the classes. It is a lot of fun and very rewarding. If you would like to learn more about the Sunday School Program and are interested in possibly running the program, please contact Peggy Wells, at 859-586-5575 , or email at rickpegwells@yahoo.com, or stop in before, during, or after one of our classes to check us out! Please note that you must be Virtus trained for this position. There is plenty of time before the next school year begins to take a class, so don’t let that stop you from volunteering.

Franciscan University has produced a prodigious amount of material over the years that can help you be a better catechist. Here, you will find videos, audio clips, magazines, books, brochures, and other resources produced by University faculty, conference speakers, and an array of collaborators. Many of the resources are available for free, with a handful of items requiring a subscription or purchase.

Our monthly healing Mass, on the first Thursday at 7 PM, will resume on January 5, 2023.

The Office of Catechesis and Evangelization is announcing the following workshop presented by Father Timothy P. Schehr. Father Schehr is a retired biblical scholar and former professor at Mount St. Mary’s School of Theology at the Athenaeum of Ohio. He has a B.A., M. Div. and an M.A. from the Athenaeum of Ohio. He also has a Ph.D. from Hebrew Union College. The Book of Proverbs – Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 The book of Proverbs offers advice about how to live as a servant of God. What qualities identify someone as God’s servant? Let’s read this book and find out. Everyone is welcome to attend! The cost for the workshop is $35. To register visit covdio.org/oce/catholic-bible-study/ or call Isaak A. Isaak, Office of Catechesis and Evangelization, at 859-392-1529.

The daily Mass for Saturday, Oct 8 only has been cancelled due to facility requirements and construction. The Sunday Vigil Mass at 5 PM will be in Britt Hall as normal.

Our IHM Summer Festival will be cancelled today due to the anticipation of the inclement weather this afternoon. Safety is always our main priority!

US Catholic Bishops will begin a special National Eucharistic Revival on June 19, 2022. The Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. They believe that God wants to see a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist—and sent out in mission “for the life of the world.” These three years will culminate in the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost fifty years. Almost a hundred thousand Catholics will join together in Indianapolis for a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage toward the “source and summit” of our Catholic faith.

IHM will host a VIRTUS training session here on April 25 at 6 PM. Register at the Virtus website.