Southwest Kansas CATHOLIC

“W� �� Southwest Kansas G��, �� H��.... B�� , �� ATHOLIC H�� .” -- R.A. T�� CNewspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City www.dcdiocese.org/swkscatholic Vol. LII, No. 19 Sunday, January 21, 2018 Help for those People of the Diocese of Dodge City Selfl ess love in a struggling to ti me of wanton hate heat their Through tragedy and triumph, The Catholic CSShomes Stories life remains a celebrati on Dutchwoman who he 2018 LIEAP (Low Income hid Anne Frank TEnergy Assistance Program) applicati on period for those who struggle to heat or cool Just ask and family their home runs through the By BENJAMIN GlATT end of March. Jerusalem Post Regardless of whether Louise Korbe! Editor’s Note: The following is individuals/families need reprinted with permission. help with winter heati ng or am not a hero,” Miep Gies wrote in summer cooling, they must the fi rst sentence of her prologue in apply for LIEAP assistance a book she co-authored about her during the applicati on period I experiences hiding Anne Frank and between January and March; her family. While this is an enormous applicati ons are not taken understatement for the Roman at any other ti me during the Catholic Dutchwoman, the root of her year. acti ons during the Holocaust may be All three Catholic Chariti es traced back to the atmosphere of kind of Southwest Kansas offi ces (in acti ons that surrounded her in life. Dodge City, Garden City, Great The fi rst ti me Gies was witness to the Bend) can assist individuals excepti onal power of kindness was as a with their applicati on if they young child. As a member of a working- need help. class family in Vienna during and aft er More informati on is the First World War, Gies (then known available by calling: in the as Hermine Santruschitz) and her family Dodge City region, (620) 227- didn’t have enough food to eat. 1586; in Garden City, (620) In 1920, she was off ered to leave 272-0010; and in the Great Austria for the Netherlands, by virtue Bend region, call (620) 792- of a Dutch workers’ associati on 1393. Photo courtesy aid program to help malnourished Or you can visit of Louise Korbe children in the aft ermath of the war. In catholicchariti esswks.org/ December 1920, she arrived at Leiden, home/news/40-home/news/ being taken in by a Christi an working economic-assistance/821-low- family. income-energy-assistance- “Kindness, in my depleted conditi on, program. was very important to me,” she wrote in “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide SKYAC is By DAVE MYERS the Frank Family.” “It was medicine as Southwest Kansas Catholic much as the bread, the marmalade, the coming! ARDEN CITY -- The darks and lights good Dutch milk and butt er and cheese, of the old photos fade into each the toasty temperature of the warm Gother with grainy disrespect for rooms.” the subjects, scratches and speckles One act of kindness led to another. having settled into place over the Due to Gies’s poor physical conditi on, decades. Yet no defect can even begin she ended up staying in the Netherlands to dispel the gleam in the subjects’ past the date the workers associati on eyes—an immigrant couple in a new had told her foster family. But with land having their picture taken at a their and her parents’ permission, she traveling carnival. would stay with her foster family in the Soledad and Juan Campos came to Netherlands unti l she would become an Selkirk, Kansas 91 years ago from their adult. home near Lake Chapala in Mexico. Looking for employment in the Photo by Dave Myers The Diocese of Dodge City Depression, in 1933 Gies found work With them were a boy and two girls, the At top: Louise Korbe of Garden City dances in invites all young adults ages 18- with a Swiss-German businessman youngest only one year old. Her name 1990 at a celebrati on marking the anniversary 39 to att end the third annual selling pecti n to make jam. His name is Louise Korbe, and today she sits in of Mexico’s independence from Spain. Above: Southwest Kansas Young Adult was Ott o Frank, the father of the her Garden City home, a woman who at 92, amid memories of both joy and seemingly Conference (SKYAC) Sunday, famous-to-be Anne Frank. Gies and her has somehow defi ed the laws of aging unendurable sadness, Louise celebrates her life. March 4 at the Cathedral of and become 92 while appearing to have future husband became well-acquainted Our Lady of Guadalupe. SKYAC never aged past 70. with the Franks, with Ott o and his off ers parti cipants the chance “Dad worked for the Missouri Pacifi c Railroad,” she said as her granddaughter, family inviti ng them over frequently. to get closer to God and each Laci Salazar, sat nearby. “He worked on the tracks. This was a mail train. One And when it came ti me for the Gieses other in an atmosphere of fun guy’s job was to make sure the mail sacks were hung outside the train depot. Conti nued to marry, Ott o arranged a lavish party in his pecti n and spices plant, during and praise. See Page 9 When the train went by, another man would hook them [and pull them onto the on Page 3 train]. That’s how we got the mail. The train never stopped!” Conti nued on Page 7 Page 2 January 21, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Feb. 10 Lenten Retreat to focus on ‘rebirth’ Among speakers: Columbine survivor turned Religious Sister SPECIAl TO THE CATHOlIC accounts of the “rebirth” they experienced, RAYER TOWN, TX — As a teenager, finding purpose and peace when they like many of her peers, Jenica Thornby opened their hearts and minds to God’s Pstruggled with some of the most basic Will. They aim to provide parti cipants with questi ons concerning human life, including practical advice for finding peace, and what life was about, who she was, and experiencing a closer relati onship with God what she was living for. in an incredibly busy and broken world. She had a daily high school routine A nati ve Texan, Sister Elizabeth Ann grew - without fail, she spent her lunch hour up in a broken home. Her grandmother, studying in the library. One day in late who raised her Protestant, taught her to Sister Mary Gianna Sister Elizabeth Ann J. Basil Dannebohm April, however, she was overwhelmed with fi nd peace and joy in the midst of suff ering a strangely intense intuiti on to forgo her by having a strong relati onship with the daily visit to the library and instead, leave Two Sisters with two ‘amazing’ stories Lord. She found that joy especially through campus. Litt le did she know that strong music, which she pursued as a career as intuiti on would change her life forever. hope to enlighten and inspire ‘busy a professional double bass player and She was a 16-year-old sophomore at orchestra director. Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, people’ in the heart of Kansas One day at the post offi ce, she met Sister the day two of her schoolmates opened to Salina, Kansas. residence on Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rita, a member of the Disciples of the Lord fi re killing 12 students, one teacher, and Who’s Sister Mary Gianna? and is an opportunity for parti cipants on Jesus Christ, and a beauti ful friendship wounding 23 others. Jenica narrowly She’s Jenica Thornby, the girl at a limited schedule to enjoy the spiritual emerged. In 2002 Sister Elizabeth Ann escaped being in the library, the center of Columbine High School who was searching benefi ts of a retreat. entered the Catholic Church. Two years the tragedy, by trusti ng that inner prompti ng for purpose and meaning in her life. She Participants join in prayer, listen to later she discovered her vocati onal call that urged her to leave school that day, only found that purpose and meaning and moving testimonials, receive practical and joined the Disciples of the Lord Jesus minutes before the shooti ng. joined a congregati on of sisters known as guidance, and conclude the experience Christ. “What made me leave school that The Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. with a luncheon. Those seeking one-on- “Eventually my desire for worldly things day? I always went to the library,” Jenica Accompanying Sister Mary Gianna on her one spiritual direction with one of the diminished and my sole desire became to wondered. “I remembered being told, ‘God visit to Kansas will be Sister Elizabeth Ann, sisters have the opportunity aft er lunch. be closer to the Lord,” Sister Elizabeth Ann must have a plan for your life!’” the community’s Mission Advancement While Catholic in nature, the retreat is recalled. He did. Director. She, too, brings an inspiring open to all denominati ons—all individuals “Then I read in a book ‘someti mes we But for Jenica, the journey to conversion testi monial and musical talent. searching for meaning in life. There is no don’t know our vocati on unti l we meet the wasn’t easy. There’s much more to the The sisters will serve as retreat directors charge to att end, however reservati ons person or the people we are supposed to story. for Dannebohm’s “busy person’s retreat,” are required.

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