Communion Breakfast to be Broadcast Live on Radio Maria

This year's Communion Breakfast is being broadcast live on international Catholic Radio on a station called Radio Maria.  This opportunity came out of the blue.  They approached us and asked to broadcast it free of charge.  After checking with Father Thesing and some of the other speakers, we agreed.

I had not heard of Radio Maria before, so I took a look at its website.  It operates primarily through the work of volunteers and has stations on five continents throughout the world.  In Ohio, you may listen to the channel on 88.7 FM, broadcasting from Anna, or 1600 AM, broadcasting from Springfield.  You may also listen online from the Radio Maria site.

So if you can't make it to the Communion Breakfast in person, be sure to join us online or on the air.

Father Mark Thesing and his Father

For the past three years, we've had Rev. Mark B. Thesing, C.S.C. preside at our Communion Breakfast.  He spent part of his youth in Centerville and is now the Business Administrator for the Office of Student Affairs at Notre Dame.  Recently, his father became an ordained permanent Deacon and celebrated mass with his son.  The Congregation of Holy Cross ran an article about the Thesing fathers on its site.

The best part about the article is where Mark talks about his father's decision to be ordained:

"My father loved medicine very much, which was the perplexing thing for me," Father Thesing said. "He loved helping people and listening to their stories; that’s what made him a very good doctor. A lot of what he did was what a minister is to do."


"When I was in high school, he said, ‘You should go into medicine. You can do both.’ He handed me articles of missionaries doing both. After he was ordained a deacon, I said I won the argument."