Day: November 21, 2012

On
Bishop Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison

Give thanks to God every day

This column is the bishop’s communication
with the faithful of the Diocese of Madison. Any wider circulation reaches beyond the intention of the bishop.

Dear Friends,

My granny often repeated to me, “Bobby, getting old is not for sissies.” Granny lived to 96 and I’m only 65, but I can confirm that in this (as in most everything) granny was right on the money.

Last week, I headed out to Baltimore for the annual gathering of the bishops of the United States. We were just getting started with our meetings when I took a spill and fell (with full weight) face-first into the pavement. In the process I suffered several cuts, a broken nose, and a bruised knee. Thanks be to God, it wasn’t worse!

Fortunately there was another bishop and two priests right there with me, and I was off to Mercy Hospital, where the doctors forwarded me on to the University of Maryland Medical Center. If we could choose the timing of our accidents, I would have preferred, of course, to be with my own outstanding doctors at St. Mary’s, but as it turned out, the care I had was really top notch, and I remain so very grateful to all of those excellent women and men — each and every one of them.

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Chris Aderhold, Assistant Director, Camp Gray

Camp Gray appreciates new retreat center, office space

This article is excerpted from a blog post on the Camp Gray Web site. For the entire post, click here.

BARABOO — As I sit at my desk in the new Camp Gray office, surrounded by the amenities of a modern office, I am abundantly humbled. This isn’t a post about me, however. This is a post about new and old. It’s about “the Joe,” a tiny old office, and now a great retreat space and spiffy new office.

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Decree Designating a Place of Pilgrimage for the Year of Faith and Determining Certain Days for Obtaining a Plenary Indulgence

Whereas our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in the hope of arousing in every believer the aspiration to profess the faith in fullness and with renewed conviction, of intensifying the celebration of the faith in the liturgy, and of encouraging the faithful to rediscover the content of the faith that is professed, celebrated, lived, and prayed, has proclaimed a Year of Faith from October 11, 2012, to November 24, 2013;

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Obispo Robert C. Morlino

Dar gracias a Dios todos los días

Esta columna es la comunicación del Obispo con los fieles de la Diócesis de Madison. Cualquier circulación más amplia va más allá de la intención del Obispo.

Queridos amigos:

Mi abuela con frecuencia me decía. “Bobby, envejecer no es para cobardones”. La abuela vivió hasta los 96 y recién tengo 65, sin embargo puedo confirmar que en esto (como en casi todo), ella sabía de que estaba hablando.

La semana pasada fui a Baltimore para la asamblea anual de los Obispos de los Estados Unidos. Recién estábamos comenzando con nuestras reuniones cuando sentí un mareo y caí (con todo mi peso) de cara contra el pavimento. En la caída sufrí varios cortes, me rompí la nariz y mi rodilla quedó muy golpeada. ¡Gracias a Dios no fue peor!

Afortunadamente había otro Obispo y dos sacerdotes a mi lado y me llevaron al Mercy Hospital, donde los doctores decidieron trasladarme al University of Maryland Medical Center. Si pudiésemos escoger el momento de nuestros accidentes, habría preferido, por supuesto, estar con mi excelente doctor en St. Mary’s, pero como sucedió, la atención que recibí fue realmente de primera y sigo agradecido a todos esos excelentes hombres y mujeres, a todos y cada uno de ellos.

Las heridas fueron lo que fueron, pero se hicieron más serias debido a los anticoagulantes que he tomado desde mi cirugía al corazón. Nuevamente, “¡envejecer no es para cobardones!” Estoy muy bien y muy agradecido a Dios por eso. Perdí algunas reuniones y estaré más cerca a casa para Acción de Gracias, pero todo está bien. Gracias a todos por sus oraciones, buenos deseos, llamadas y notas.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Thanksgiving Day: Following in the footsteps of President Lincoln

Editor's View by Mary C. Uhler

We usually think of Thanksgiving Day as hearkening back to the story of the Pilgrims and Indians in the 17th century. Certainly the observance of a day of thanksgiving in our country does trace its origins back to the harvest feast held in Plymouth, Mass., in 1621.

However, what many of us may not know is that the official proclamation of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday happened in the middle of the American Civil War. Perhaps with our own “civil war” of sorts happening in 2012, in the aftermath of a contentious election, it might be worth noting what President Abraham Lincoln said at that time.

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Jean Mueller

Helping elderly neighbors in need

Ask Jean column by Jean MuellerQ: I have been helping an older neighbor who is 79, for the past year. I started helping casually with things like bringing up the mail during snowstorms or helping him shovel. It was never consistent or “expected’ until now. He does not have any family and is alone and I want to be neighborly, but now he is asking if I can help with everything from cleaning to meals to transportation. I think he has enough money to be able to pay for such services, but I don’t think he wants to. How do I back out without making him feel bad? (Monroe).

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Audrey Mettel Fixmer

Learning to cook with ‘appeal’

Grandmom column by Audrey Fixmer

My late husband taught me two important lessons about cooking.

When I confessed to him a few weeks before our wedding that I knew nothing about cooking (zilch!), he advised me in his typical philosophical manner, “There are two ways to look upon the challenge of cooking: one as an art, which requires creative talent, and the other as a science, which requires a cookbook. Get a cookbook.”

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