St. Stephen Catholic Community in Old Hickory and the Hunger Relief Program of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Nashville have partnered to provide free lunches every Thursday to vulnerable families. Volunteers John Beardsley and Bud Corn load meals into a guest vehicles. Several guests pick up meals for all the members of their family.

Katie's Ice Cream in Dickson hosts a Rosary Club every second Sunday of the month as participants gather to pray the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary followed by fellowship and complimentary ice cream. Dozens gathered for the most recent monthly gathering on Sunday, June 12.

Aquinas College brought it's year-long celebration of the 60th anniversary of its founding to a close with a picnic for alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends on Saturday, May 14. Sister John Thomas, OP, leads a tour of Siena Hall on t he Aquinas campus. The facility, which was built as a dormitory, is now open to host conferences.

Parishioners at St. Patrick Church in McEwen process through the town, including down U.S. 70, in a celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi.

In May, Overbrook School held an historic graduation ceremony as the first sixth grade class, the only seventh grade class, and the last eighth grade class all graduated from the school. The historic graduation takes place as Overbrook becomes a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade institution beginning the 2022 Fall Semester. As a result, St. Cecilia Academy will shift from a four-year high school to a school for girls seventh through 12th grade. Pictured are the 30 graduating eighth graders as they throw their flowers up in the air in celebration.

St. Philip Church in Franklin marked the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the parish's first church on Saturday, Nov. 6. Bishop J. Mark Spalding celebrated Mass, which was followed by a banquet. Father Ed Steiner, pastor of St. Philip, recites the Eucharistic Prayer during Mass.

Sister Mary Dominic Pitts, OP, of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, is working with 250 other experts around the world on a new translation of the Book of Revelations.