The Holy Hoops H.O.R.S.E. Shootout to support the Tri-State Multiple Sclerosis Association will be held throughout July. For a tax-deductible $20 donation contestants will play a designated shooter a game of H.O.R.S.E. Anyone who defeats the designated shooter is guaranteed of winning a prize and will advance to the single-elimination finals on Sunday, July 30 at the American Baptist East gymnasium (6300 Washington Avenue). Click here for more information. We will host a qualifying round at Christ the King campus on July 15 and 16.

We are very excited to offer to our parishioners a free subscription to the online resource called Formed. You can think of it as Netflix for Catholics, but it has so much more than movies! Click here to learn more.

#StartWithaSmile at smile.amazon.com/ch/46-5370917 and Amazon donates to our parish. Just click on the link and you can sign up in no time for all your purchases to benefit our parish.

Did you know that there's a new Catholic radio channel in town? It's 103.5 WIAH. The call letters stand for With Inspiration and Hope. Click here to see the program schedule and tune in for some great Catholic content!

Welcome from Fr. Alex

Welcome to the website for Annunciation Parish. While we are a new parish in the Diocese of Evansville, coming into existence on July 1, 2014, our community is filled with the rich tradition of the former Christ the King and Holy Spirit Parishes.

I am grateful that you have discovered our website and I hope that you will find here a resource for learning more about your faith and about our community. We are committed to helping all people grow in their familiarity with Christ because we know that He is the source of all that we do. With the Holy Spirit as our guide, we hope that we can continue to carry out the mission entrusted to us.

Far from being merely a place where we gather to worship on the weekend, the parish is a place of life. It is a place where people come together to acknowledge and celebrate God's presence in their lives. It is a place where we can help one another in moments of difficulty and rejoice with one another in moments of joy. 

Certainly we see this in the event of the Annunciation of the Lord recounted in Luke's gospel. Mary is visited by the Archangel Gabriel and receives the good, but overwhelming news that she will bear a son who will be called great, the Son of the Most High. It is a moment to celebrate: to celebrate God's preference for Mary and to celebrate the newness that God has introduced into her life. But it is also a moment to share, which she does immediately as she sets out to visit her cousin Elizabeth, just found to be pregnant with John the Baptist. 

Annunciation Parish is a place like this. Here newness is celebrated and embraced as an invitation from God; here challenges are welcomed as opportunities for growth; here our people can accompany one another on this path of faith. My greatest fear is not that we would make mistakes or fall short in our ministry, but that we would get too comfortable and not feel the tension to go beyond ourselves. 

May the Lord always be new in you and may you be filled with the same Spirit that overshadowed the Blessed Virgin Mary.