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Sr. Cecilia Donnellon, RSM, one of five Sisters of Mercy who came to Holy Family Parish, Mobile, in August 1960, died peacefully in Ireland on Jan. 22, 2021.  

The 40 Days for Life campaign returns to Mobile beginning Sept. 23. It will include 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach, according to local campaign coordinators Mae and Chris Rehm.

Spring Hill College, along with Dr. and Mrs. Charles Demeranville, announced Eleanor Grindinger as the first recipient of the Margaret “Meg” Demeranville ’01 Memorial Scholarship.

The ACCW card party and luncheon originally scheduled for May has been postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets were already mailed and will still be good when the event is rescheduled. No date has been announced yet.

St. Dominic Parish in Mobile will host “Pursuit of God – God’s thirst for your Soul” Monday March 16-March 18. Each session begins at 7 p.m. and guest speaker will be Tom Riello, co-host of Archangel Radio’s “Watercooler Catechism” program.

The Notre Dame Glee Club, under the direction of Daniel Stowe, is on tour throughout the Southeast and will perform a spring concert at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 9. Admission is free and no tickets are required.  Donations will be accepted during intermission.

The annual Mobile Curia ACIES will be Saturday, March 21, 2020, at Little Flower Parish in Mobile. The Rosary will be prayed at 9:30 a.m. and Mass will begin at 10 a.m. The luncheon will be served in the school cafeteria. For more information, contact Adrienne Davis 251-654-5476, Lucy Park 251-478-7125 or Patti Millette 251-509-2288.

Dominique Verville, a parishioner at Holy Spirit Parish in Montgomery, was selected as the 2020 Distinguished Young Woman of Alabama.

In the wake of the recent canonization, and in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Our Savior Parish will host a conversation on the ecumenical implications of the life of St. John Henry Newman at 7 p.m. Jan. 23.