Incarnate Word Academy Level students transformed Stephanie Bottom’s classroom into a living wax museum on May 22. Several parents and students from other classrooms visited the wax museum to listen to students as they presented biographies on key people in history.

The Ark Assessment Center and Emergency Shelter for Youth will host its Fifth Annual Benefit Golf Tournament on June 26 at the NorthShore Country Club in Portland. Proceeds will help The Ark to carry out its mission to providing caring intervention for abused, neglected and displaced children and youth.

As a teenager, Sister Emma Marie Stillman, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, dreamt of providing for the needs of the poor as an attorney, but Father Alvin Tengler, Vocation Director for the Diocese of Corpus Christi broadened her idea when he asked, "So, what’s keeping you from being a Sister?" Fifty years later she is observing her golden jubilee in religious life.

This year’s “Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Bear Witness” will take place in dioceses across the United States from June 21-July 4. It is a time when the Church’s liturgical calendar celebrates a series of martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power—St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter and Paul and the first martyrs of the Church of Rome. It concludes on Independence Day.

For the good of the people of God in the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Bishop Michael Mulvey has made the following pastoral assignments that will take effect on July 1.

Father Bob Dunn, pastor at Most Precious Blood in Corpus Christi, was installed recently as the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Texas State Chaplain, by Carolyn Bachmann, CDA National Director. Looking on is the new State Regent Eve Trevino, a parishioner at Most Precious Blood. On June 14, Bishop Emeritus Edmond Carmody, Father Dunn and other invited priests will celebrate a Mass in honor of Trevino and Father Dunn. National and state dignitaries of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas will attend the “Change of Power” at Most Precious Blood, beginning at 12:15 p.m.

One of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of consecrated life is the essential element of community. Like the first disciples of Jesus, consecrated women and men often find themselves in relationships with others simply because they have been called together by the same loving God. They may even laughingly admit that they never would have met each other if it had not been for that common call.

On Thursday, May 28 and Friday, May 29, 93 seniors from St. John Paul II High School and 91 seniors from Incarnate Word Academy, respectively, completed their high school journey at the altar of Corpus Christi Cathedral.