Month: September 2009

On
Peggy Hamill, Milwaukee

Renewed interest in pro-life public witness, prayer

To the editor:

I can’t tell you how many times lately people have approached me expressing a desire to become more actively involved in defending life. Many are new to Pro-Life Wisconsin and even more have been supporters for years but now feel compelled to get out and do more hands-on work.

Our True to Life Media Campaign — combined with recent rallies, prayer vigils, and numerous reports of babies saved — has sparked renewed interest in public witness, prayer, and sidewalk counseling at local abortion mills. For this reason, Pro-Life Wisconsin will host the third of three sidewalk counseling workshops on October 10 in Oshkosh at A Place 2 B. This is a critical training opportunity for all sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors.

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Mary C. Uhler, editor

A play you’ve got to see

editor's view

A one-man play on the life of St. John Vianney will be performed in the Madison and Milwaukee areas by actor Leonardo Defilippis. VIANNEY will be staged at St. John Vianney Parish in Janesville on Friday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. and at four other locations (see details below).

This play has been in the works for over two years, but coincidentally (or by divine inspiration), Pope Benedict XVI declared the Year for Priests in June under the patronage of St. John Vianney. So this play became even more appropriate for viewing.

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Bishop Robert C. Morlino

God’s mercy and Senator Edward Kennedy

Dear Friends,

As I complete my time of rest and recuperation, I found myself unpredictably (at least had I been able to predict six months ago) with time available to me to watch on the television most of the events surrounding the funeral and burial of Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. For myself, the time was prayerful and well spent because I knew a lot about Senator Kennedy when he was still fairly young and, of course, I was younger still.

Senator Kennedy and I, many years ago, were, according to the common understanding, not quite ready to get in line to go and meet our Judge. There was plenty of time available, we presumed, to prepare ourselves to take our place in that line, and to welcome that part of our humanity which is experiencing the mystery of suffering and death.

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Bishop Robert C. Morlino

La Misericordia de Dios y el Senador Edward Kennedy

Queridos amigos:

Mientras termino este tiempo de reposo y recuperación, me encuentro impredeciblemente (al menos no habría sido capaz de predecir esto hace seis meses) con tiempo disponible para ver por televisión muchos de los eventos alrededor del funeral y entierro del Senador Edward Moore Kennedy. Para mí, este tiempo ha sido de oración y ha sido bien invertido porque conocía bastante del Senador Kennedy cuando era todavía bastante joven y yo también lo era todavía.

El Senador Kennedy y yo, hace muchos años, estábamos, según el entendimiento común, no muy listos para dar el paso y conocer a nuestro Juez. Había mucho tiempo disponible, asumíamos, para prepararnos para el día en que tuviéramos que estar de pie en esa línea, y abrazar esa parte de nuestra humanidad que consiste en la experiencia del misterio del sufrimiento y la muerte

 

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