St. Louis Review Online

Mark Kempf

MOTHERS’ PRIDE AND JOY — Five generations of the Terry family show off one of their latest, 5-month old Francis Gerard Erker Diehr, at a get-together at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center last week. The infant was born five weeks early at the medical center Jan. 23 and spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit until he was strong enough to be sent home. With him, are, from left, his grandmother, Mary Patricia Gallagher, born at old St. John’s Hospital in 1957; his great grandmother, Patricia Ann Terry Gallagher, who graduated from St. John’s School of Nursing in 1956; his mother, Annie Erker Diehr; and his great-great-grandmother Ann Terry, who has been a pastoral service volunteer at St. John’s Mercy since 1988, was president of the Mother’s Club when her daughter was in St. John’s School of Nursing and gave birth to her four children at St. John’s. Terry is a member of St. Joseph in Manchester; Gallagher, Ste. Genevieve du Bois in Warson Woods; and Erker, Diehr and her son are members of Our Lady of Lourdes, University City.

May 9, 2008

Food pantries hit by cost, demand
Food pantries and agencies throughout the archdiocese are seeing rising costs for food and other essentials limit their operations while an increasing number of people are seeking help.

2 from Aquinas to be ordained Dominicans
Two seminarians at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis will be ordained priests for the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 11, at St. Francis Xavier “College” Church, 3628 Lindell Blvd. in Midtown St. Louis.

Abp. Burke, Fr. Groeschel to meet pilgrims at LaCrosse
Archbishop Raymond. L. Burke, along with well-known author and preacher Franciscan Father Benedict Groeschel, will celebrate Mass and give a talk during a summer pilgrimage sponsored by the St. Louis Archdiocese to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in LaCrosse, Wis.

Catholic Men's Conference planners looking to next year
Planning already is under way for the 2009 Catholic Men for Christ conference, with the event now part of the archdiocese’s Office of New Evangelization.

Annual Catholic Appeal chairman: ‘Do it for Him’
There is still time to take part in the Annual Catholic Appeal even though the solicitation period after Masses has ended.

Diverse parish plans block party
Since 1848, Most Holy Trinity Parish has prided itself on its diverse body of members.

Young Catholic Musicians to give concert May 22 before embarking on summer tour
The Young Catholic Musicians will be heading for Ohio and Indiana at the end of the month for their early Summer Tour 2008.

Fr. Faherty's new novel wins Mo. Writers' award
“Achieve!” the preacher said in a voice so loud it was almost a shout.

Parish, friends, family rally for ‘terrific kid’
A benefit for 13-year-old Stephen Thome — a child with Down syndrome now undergoing chemotherapy in his third bout with leukemia — will take place Saturday evening, May 17, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in House Springs.

Local students write winning essays in annual pro-life contest
Here are the essays submitted by the 2008 first-place winners in the annual pro-life creative writing contest for eighth-graders coordinated by the archdiocesan Respect Life Apostolate. Schools listed under the student’s name are current grade school and the high school the student will attend.

Photo essay: A lesson in military history
Some 600 Boy Scouts got a glimpse of military history late last month at the American Heritage Spring Camporee at Jefferson Barracks National Guard Base in South St. Louis County.

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