MAGGIE VALLEY — Attend a weekend retreat at Living Waters Catholic Retreat Center called “UN-Packing the Holy Mass” Sept. 25-26.
Its speaker, Michael Coyle is a life-long Catholic and a native North Carolinian. Coyle is a parishioner of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlotte and holds a theology degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
He is a diocesan-certified catechist and has been enthusiastically and effectively teaching religious education for nearly 40 years, including youth catechesis, campus ministry, RCIA, Scripture studies, and adult faith enrichment.
The retreat will begin Friday with dinner and close with lunch on Sunday.
Learn more and register at www.catholicretreat.org.
— Catholic News Herald
Community Ministries from St. Therese Parish in Moorseville recently held a successful three-day Food Drive to benefit FeedNC, collecting from parishioners a total of 1,371 pounds of food for people in need in the community.
The Knights of Columbus from St. Elizabeth Parish in Boone also hosted a food drive the weekend of June 28 to aid the Hospitality House, a local homeless shelter.
— Lisa Cash, Patricia Van Buren and Sophia McNiff; Amber Mellon, correspondent