STEM Teacher (K-8) Full-Time – Saint Agnes School – 2025-2026

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Saint Agnes School is seeking a full-time, K-8 STEM Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year.  The teacher will plan lessons to engage students in hands-on, inquiry-based learning using the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) curriculum. This full-time position integrates STEM education with Catholic values, emphasizing ethical decision-making, service, and the responsible use of technology. Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter, and references to Erin Redleski at eredleski@saintagnes.com.

 

Teacher Aide – Preschool/Daycare – Saint Joseph Academy

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Saint Joseph Academy in Walton, Kentucky is looking to hire interested persons to work as teacher aides in our Preschool/Daycare facility. Must have at least a high school diploma, have good communication skills, be able to demonstrate professional practices and demeanor, like working with young infants and children, and be able to collaborate with others in a positive and professional manner. Full or part-time openings available. If you are interested, you may submit your resume with a cover letter and references to Sister Patricia Jean , SJW at principal@sjawalton.com.

Preschool Aftercare Teacher (Part-time) – Saint Mary School – 2025-2026

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Saint Mary School, a blue ribbon school in Alexandria, KY, is seeking a part-time (M-F 1:30-6:00) Preschool Aftercare Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The ideal candidate will have a high school diploma, be over 18 years of age, and have a minimum of 1 year working with children. Job responsibilities include working under the supervision of the directors and lead teachers to create a fun environment with engaging after-school activities, age-appropriate school concepts, positively encouraging children as they develop their fine motor, gross motor, language development, and social/ emotional skills, complying with state regulations, completing 15 training hours per school year, being Virtus trained and compliant, preparing lessons and daily classroom activities. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, résumé, and references to Preschool Director Megan Franzen at megan.franzen@saintmaryparish.com

Math Teacher – Newport Central Catholic High School

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Newport Central Catholic High School is seeking a Math teacher for the 2025-26 School Year.  This position has the potential for full or part time and flexibility regarding content areas depending on qualifications.  Candidates will preferably have a Kentucky Teaching Certificate in Math or working toward such certification.  All interested candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to kcollopy@ncchs.com.

Visit https://link.edgepilot.com/s/bd9b0694/tmK_9T9PB0i41QsXDJLviQ?u=http://www.ncchs.com/ for further details on our family oriented school on The Hill.

 

Instructional Aide – St. Joseph, Cold Spring – 2025-2026

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St. Joseph is seeking a part time instructional aide to support our 3rd-5th grade classrooms for the 2025-2026 school year. Interested candidates must have at least a high school diploma and should send a resume and references to Emily Urlage at eurlage@stjoeschool.net

Kindergarten Instructional Aide – St. Joseph, Cold Spring – 2025-2026

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St. Joseph is seeking a full time instructional aide for one of our Kindergarten classrooms for the 2025-2026 school year. Interested candidates must have at least a high school diploma and should send a  resume and references to Emily Urlage at eurlage@stjoeschool.net

English and Language Arts Teacher – Grades 6-8 – St. Joseph, Cold Spring – 2025-2026

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St. Joseph is seeking a full time English and Language Arts teacher for grades 6-8 for the 2025-2026 school year.  All candidates should send a cover letter, resume and references to Emily Urlage at eurlage@stjoeschool.net

 

 

Be a reservoir not a canal during your Walk with One journey

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Bella Bailey

Multimedia Correspondent

For the past three weeks the Messenger has invited the faithful of the Diocese of Covington to participate in the Walk with One evangelization effort during the season of Lent. This effort from the National Eucharistic Congress invites members of the church to identify someone in their life and walk with them towards Christ.

Broken down into four steps, the Messenger has covered the first two, identify someone in a spirit of humility and intercede for that person in communion with the Holy Spirit. How though, does one intercede in communion with the Holy Spirit? The answer, prayer and intentions.

The team at the National Eucharistic Congress suggests writing down the person’s name on a sticky note and keeping it nearby during prayer, so that the person might be written on the faithful’s heart, asking God to open the heart of the person chosen to be receptive to Him. Offering a Mass or holy hour for that person is also advised.

“Every person is different and so everyone has their modes of prayer. I like to encourage people to mention this person by name to the Lord every day even if it’s as simple as, ‘Lord, please draw [insert name here] closer to you.’ It could be that simple. But also the rosary is super powerful, and we encourage bringing Mother Mary into the mix as well,” said Tanner Kalina, project manager for the National Eucharistic Congress. These first two steps of Walk with One have been geared toward personal prayer and growing in relationship with the Lord, but that is by design said Mr. Kalina.

“I love the analogy of St. Bernard of Clairvaux who talks about the need for us as a Church on mission to be reservoirs and not canals. Meaning that we fill up with the Lord and then our evangelization efforts, our Walk with One effort, are the overflow of that filling up; as opposed to a canal that is just ever changing and it’s in and it’s out and it doesn’t take on real shape.

“Prayer is necessary because we need to first and foremost be filled with the Holy Spirit, we need to be filled with the love of the Lord because we can’t just hand down a vague sense of the Lord or a vague idea of a relationship to the Lord, we have to be living it out,” said Mr. Kalina.

Mother of God’s faith workshop forms witnesses to family and friends

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Maura Baker

Staff Writer

“Do you know how much God loves you and has been guiding you your whole life? Have you ever explored your own faith journey, and would like to share this with others but aren’t sure how?” These are the questions being asked by the planning committee of Mother of God parish’s upcoming faith workshop, “Talking About God with Family and Friends.”

A development from the parish’s parish missionary disciple training (as part of the diocesan-wide With One Heart initiative), Mother of God decided to focus on the fact that “the most important missionaries in the Church are, first of all, parents, as they share their faith with their children and, secondly, friends, who share their faith with those around them,” said Father Michael Comer, pastor.

“We’re not trying to form professional missionaries,” he said, “what we’re trying to do is empower parents to share their faith with their kids … ‘Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers,’” Father Comer quoted Pope Paul VI, “so we’re trying to help people be witnesses to their own family members and to their friends.”

The session, held on a Saturday morning, aims to “get people started with how to talk to family and friends, and what they need to know about their own faith,” said Kathy Stevie, a parishioner of Mother of God on the planning committee for the workshop. “And, then, once they understand where they themselves are coming from,” she said, “all the different perspectives on Saturday can come to together and put it all together in a way to feel more comfortable in discussing their faith.”

The workshop is open to all, and is set to be held on April 5 at Mother of God Church’s undercroft, Covington. With doors opening at 8:30 a.m., the workshop continues until daily Mass at the Church at noon. Questions can be directed to Mary Ann Kelly at mkelly@mogcov.org.

Phase two of the DPAA concludes with the second kick off dinner

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Bella Bailey

Multimedia Correspondent

The second Diocesan Parish Annual Appeal (DPAA) Kick-off Dinner was held, March 20, at Receptions Event Center, Erlanger, where 311 people gathered to learn about the ministries that benefit from the DPAA. The theme of this year’s DPAA, “Pilgrims of Hope, Missionaries of Mercy,” was projected around the room as guests toured the ministry fair, highlighting the work throughout the Diocese supported by the appeal.

“It is the financial generosity of people like you that enable the Diocese to execute the mission and theme of the DPAA … In our 2025 video Bishop Iffert talks about the meaning of our theme and several groups of individuals who are served through DPAA ministries,” said Lisa Knochelmann, leadership gifts chair.

The DPAA video, a message from Bishop Iffert encouraging people to donate, will be shown in parishes across the Diocese on March 23. The video, shorter than in years past, will be shown after the completion of the Communion Rite, rather than replacing the homily.

“We have a committee of pastors,” said Bishop Iffert, “who gave input to us every year. One of the consistent inputs that I’ve heard for three years now is that these pastors really hated losing a Sunday homily during Lent. These readings during Lent are so profound and correspond with the process of initiation; we have all of these folks who are preparing for baptism, for initiation into the life of the Church and these readings are geared toward helping us accompany those people. Then, what would happen, you get to the second or third Sunday of Lent and they’d have to throw those readings out the window and they’d hear the Bishop talking about the DPAA. So that is what we’re trying to do this year, we’re trying to respond to that.”

The goal of the DPAA this year is higher than years past at $2,700,000, with $904,072 already committed by donors in the leadership gifts phase, the first phase of the appeal. The $904,072 raised in phase one surpasses the amount raised in 2024 by $322,000.

“That’s flat out amazing,” said Jeff Jehn, general chair for the DPAA, “Your pledge to the appeal will demonstrate your commitment to priestly vocations, Catholic education, religious formation of adults and children, as well as provide programs to strengthen marriages, promote respect for life, and offer consolation for those who are less fortunate than we are. Especially, it will help those whose needs are greatest — the poor, the vulnerable, and all of those who are underserved in their environment but served with love by the people of the Diocese of Covington.”

Bishop Iffert said the pledges made by those in the pew are, “for the poor, for those who need education, for those who have served us so faithfully, for the elderly, for those that don’t have the housing that they should have, those are the kinds of things that your help, through the DPAA and the help of so many thousands allow the Church to do in your name.”

“I want to invite you to join me in supporting the Diocesan Parish Annual Appeal,” said Bishop Iffert, “when we ask you to give, keep in mind that in the Catholic Church you don’t hear us tell you how much you should give … because what we believe is that you should give whatever you and God are happy with, whatever you believe God is asking you to give, whatever is the right return for you on the blessing that you have received.”