MADISON — Valentyna Pavsyukova, founder of the nonprofit organization Chalice of Mercy, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Gordon Dining and Event Center. Badger Catholic invites all students and their friends to join the organization’s General Speaker Event, “Ukraine: The City Without God.”
Day: February 4, 2015
Year of Consecrated Life concerns all of us
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In case you haven’t heard, we’re in the midst of the Year of Consecrated Life in the Catholic Church. It began in November of 2014 and continues until February 2, 2016 — so it actually lasts more than a year.
An average lay Catholic may think, what does this have to do with me? Why should I be concerned about a year dedicated to priests, Sisters, consecrated virgins, and other persons in consecrated life?
Applies to all of us
Pope Francis would say, “It applies to every single Catholic person.”
That’s what the Holy Father did say in a letter he wrote on the occasion of the Year of Consecrated Life. He said he wished to speak not only to consecrated persons, but also to the laity, “who share with them the same ideals, spirit, and mission.”
St. Thomas More Society: Global Common Good
MADISON — Catholic attorneys will be intrigued at their next meeting as they hear about the Global Common Good from Br. Edward van Merrienboer, OP.
With both national and international experience in working for the Common Good, Brother Edward has served in Rome as an adjunct faculty member of Aquinas Institute, as chair of the Department of Theology and Philosophy of Barry College, at a Newman center, and currently as director of faith formation at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison.