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Never felt less than welcome at St. Paul’s

On January 27, 2016
Kurt and Nancy Kaczmarek

To the editor:

From our first encounters with St. Paul’s University Catholic Center as uncertain students in the early 1980s, through our wedding and children’s baptisms, and many Eucharistic liturgies, we never felt less than welcome in that “dark, narrow, and cramped” physical building.

In that architecturally austere home, we came to adult faith and formed Christian friendships still alive and well after reluctantly changing parishes in the mid 1990s due only to lack of an attached school.

We pray that the latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former (Haggai 2:9)!

Kurt and Nancy Kaczmarek, Madison

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