February 2010

Feb. 3 was like many other days for Denise Emmert, a 25-year-old Creighton University pharmacy student. But, in addition, to her studies for school, plans for a Bible study she would be leading that night also raced through her mind.

Gathered in her friend's West Omaha home that evening, she and seven other young adult women used Scripture as a guide to study the virtue of humility.

Archbishop George J. Lucas discussed the topic of consecrated life from several perspectives Feb. 6 at the annual World Day for Consecrated Life program, but he told the 80 people present he wanted to be sure to convey at least one message - his thanks.

"I want to at least make sure to say thank you," he told the men and women religious, parish vocation committee members, deacons and Serrans gathered at St. Patrick Church in Fremont. "Thank you for being open to the gift that God has offered to you and thank you for the gift of yourselves."

Television commercials for the Catholics Come Home program may have stopped at the end of January, but the process of reaching out to those who responded to the campaign is just beginning.

Organized through the Catholic Faith Formation Office, the campaign used a series of television messages and welcome home events geared towards fallen away Catholics. The commercials began airing Dec. 18.

HUGHES-Lorraine M., 90. Funeral Mass Feb. 25 at St. Margaret Mary Church. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Preceded in death by husband, Bernard; brother, Wallace Martin, Denver. Survived by son, Bernard and partner, John Alden Wright, Beaumont, Texas; daughters and sons-in-law, Sharron and Dan Potthoff, Lincoln, Mary Luann and Michael Baylor; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; nieces; nephews; family; friends. Memorials to St. Vincent de Paul Society.

JOHN A. GENTLEMAN