Queridos amigos:
El domingo 19 de agosto tuve el honor y el privilegio de celebrar una Misa de acción de gracias por quienes en la diócesis festejan 50 años de matrimonio.
Month: August 2013
Sister Barbara Tilkens, OP, dies
SINSINAWA — Sister Barbara Tilkens, OP (Adella), died Aug. 30, 2013, at St. Dominic Villa. The funeral Mass was held in Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa Sept. 6, 2013, followed by burial in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Sister Barbara made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican Feb. 4, 1953, and her final profession Aug. 5, 1958. She taught for 19 years, served in administration for two years, and ministered as support staff for 16 years and as a chaplain for 13 years. Sister Barbara served in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Illinois, Montana, Alabama, and Iowa.
Camp Gray 60 years ago was built on faith, fun, and dynamite
BARABOO — Parishioners at St. Joseph Parish in Baraboo helped Fr. Francis Xavier Gray — later Monsignor Gray — buy the land for a Reedsburg youth camp on Shady Lane in the early 1950s.
Not long after, they used dynamite to clear stumps from the athletic field and built cabins from wood they salvaged from crates of ordnance produced at the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant just outside of Baraboo.
Honoring couples married for 50 years
What advice would a couple married for 50 years give to couples getting married today?
MDCCW plans fall vicariate meetings
MADISON — The Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW) announces its fall vicariate (formerly deanery) meetings. All women and parish priests are invited to attend. Dates and host parishes are:
• Sauk Vicariate — St. Luke Parish, Plain, Tuesday, Sept. 10, mid-afternoon/evening (see information following this listing).
Adult faith formation Bible studies offered at Blessed Sacrament
MADISON — Pope Francis has captivated the attention of many people around the globe with his simplicity, humility, directness, and outreach to the marginalized.
He calls us to be in dialogue with the world reaching out to build a culture of “solidarity” or “encounter” in which a society shares and includes. This desire to love flows from the love we have received from Christ.
To help us better experience God’s love in the Scriptures and thus grow in loving, the Blessed Sacrament Parish Adult Faith Formation Committee will be offering various Bible studies this year:
Labor Day: Making our work a prayer
In the 15th century in a village near Nuremberg, Germany, Albrecht Durer and his brother Albert dreamed of attending art school.
But Albrecht Sr., their father who supported 18 children, understandably couldn’t afford to send them. So the two brothers made an agreement. Albrecht would attend art school while Albert worked in the mines to pay his expenses. When Albrecht graduated, he would use his artistic talents to pay for Albert’s tuition and other expenses.
Forgiving Ryan Braun: Brewers’ fans should accept him for both his successes and his failures
Many children and adults in Wisconsin (myself included) have admired Ryan Braun during his years playing with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Whenever I went to a Brewers’ game, I saw plenty of fans wearing T-shirts with Braun’s name and the number eight. The fans applauded when Braun came up to bat, knowing that he would do his best to get a hit (his career batting average through July was .312).
Braun also seemed to be a nice guy. He accepted his many baseball awards modestly, including the National League’s Most Valuable Player award for the 2011 season.
Taking performance enhancing drugs
It was therefore painful for me and other Brewers’ fans to accept the news that Braun might have taken performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). At first we thought it must be a mistake. However, this summer Major League Baseball suspended Braun for the rest of the season and the postseason due to his involvement with the Biogenesis clinic in Florida.
Now we know that Braun lied to us. We wonder why he and other successful athletes took PEDs. Were they greedy for more money and fame? Were they worried about sustaining their athletic prowess? Did they think they would never get caught?
Marriage is built on mercy and forgiveness
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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.
On Sunday, August 19, I was honored and privileged to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for those in the diocese marking 50 years of marriage.
It was a joyful moment, gathering about 60 couples from throughout the diocese and, in a particular way, I felt called by the Lord to point out that the durability and the steadfastness of their married lives is a “school of forgiveness,” from which all can learn.
I could see the twinkle in their eyes as I recalled that beneath the marriage covenant of each and every couple present there was a mountain of forgiveness built on 50 years of forgiveness and mercy, with and through the Lord.
It is no small feat to have built that mountain, and it is a tremendous sign for the whole world. In fact, it is one of my most cherished occasions of the whole year when I am in the company of those who, with Mary, have said their “fiat” — their, “let it be” — and continue to mean it.
Cuando migrantes llegan, voluntarios parroquiales proveen transporte a Misa, comidas
ENFIELD, Connecticut (CNS) — Durante el verano el tabaco crece prácticamente como yerba mala bajo mallas blancas y en campos abiertos por todo el valle tabacalero del Connecticut central.
Casi al final de junio, cuando las plantas están aproximadamente a la altura de la rodilla, los trabajadores migratorios que han viajado miles de millas en autobús desde México y más allá, o por aire desde Puerto Rico, comienzan a llegar para empleos de tres meses cultivando la cosecha en granjas de Connecticut. Y con su llegada la parroquia St. Patrick continúa su programa de ministerio hispano de hace mucho tiempo de cultivar la fe de ellos.
Todas las noches de lunes, desde finales de junio hasta fines de agosto, dos autobuses escolares recogen 100 hombres o más en su campamento en Windsor para llevarlos a Misa y a una comida en St. Patrick.
Aunque sus esfuerzos están centrados en proveer transporte en autobús hasta la Misa y comida semanalmente, cada temporada el ministerio ofrece una amplia gama de servicios a su comunidad migratoria temporal. Tal vez el principal de estos es la obra evangelizadora de preparar a muchos de los trabajadores para recibir los sacramentos de iniciación, evento que se ha convertido en una celebración anual en St. Patrick.