Everyone who has ever sent a child to a Catholic school knows it’s a struggle to pay tuition.
Norkisha Epps knows this because she works two jobs to send her children to Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School in East St. Louis, and she is beginning to see the fruits of her labors.
The “Luke 18” retreat model for 6th-8th-graders is used in many areas. The model, according to adult team coleaders Kristine Lamons and Randy Riesenberger is a weekend long retreat inviting this group of young people into the Church — to help them see that they are not only the future of our Church, but they are also the Church right now.
Sometimes dreams come true, and in a big way. That’s what this story is about, but it took 50 years to arrive at this point. Msgr. Vincent Haselhorst entertained three people from the Diocese of Jalapa in Guatemala, which, if you know Msgr. Haselhorst would not be considered unusual.
