Church News

Check your calendars this month of June, Father’s Day is fast approaching. On June 21, we have a special day to remember those who love you and care for you, especially the fond memories you had with your father growing up.  

Every moment of love and attention from Dad, was a gift of fatherly love from the Lord, and we are thankful for God’s design of family. May you be blessed to have festivities with your family that helps make this day meaningful.

BRISTOW – United Pentecostal Church in Bristow will host its 62nd annual homecoming Sunday, June 14. The Rev. Michael Flemming of Sessor, Ill., will be the guest speaker.

The event will also recognize the 22nd pastoral anniversary of the Rev. Clarence Enmen Jr. Sunday school will be held at 9:30 a.m.

By PASTOR BEN RAKE

Community Christian Church

Oh, my God!

I’ll bet you have already heard somebody blurt out these three simple words this morning!

This phrase is spoken in any number of settings and levels of decibels very commonly in our society today. Sometimes it is spoken too commonly. Can God’s name be mentioned too often?

Only if we take it too lightly, and some do so as they often almost shout these words.

ST. MEINRAD – The Rev. Cyprian Davis OSB, a long-time monk and priest of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, died Monday at Memorial Hospital in Jasper. He was 84 and a jubilarian of both profession and ordination. Surviving are a cousin and a niece.

Davis was born in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 1930, to Clarence W. and Evelyn (Jackson) Davis, who named him Clarence John.

He studied at Saint Meinrad Seminary from 1949 to 1956. Invested as a novice monk July 31, 1950, he professed his simple vows Aug. 1, 1951, and was ordained to the priesthood May 3, 1956.