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St. Thomas Aquinas Parish to host Mardi Gras celebration
MADISON — During the Year of Mercy, the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish community is holding events to encourage awareness of mercy — both as a gift given and a gift received.
Each month, the parish is focusing on one or two of the Works of Mercy. For February, the focus is to feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty.
Jesuit Retreat House opens new lodgings wing for session for Madison-area men
OSHKOSH — Madison-area men seeking to enhance their Lenten experience will get to make a weekend silent retreat at the newly renovated Jesuit Retreat House overlooking Lake Winnebago.
It’s a rare chance to spend time with God in prayer, surrounded by the beauty, peace, and solitude of nature.
A time to be with God
“What God reveals in Scripture is the love in which we are created, the love that sustains us, and the love in which we will rest,” said Fr. Chris Manahan, Retreat House director.
Becky Thompson receives Jack McBride Ministry Award
MADISON — Recently, parish catechetical leaders from the Diocese of Madison honored the hard work and dedication of Becky Thompson of St. Joseph, Baraboo.
Thompson received the Jack McBride Leadership in Ministry Award. The Madison Diocese Religious Educator’s Organization (MDREO) presented the award at the Catechetical Convocation at the Bishop O’Connor Center in Madison.
Thanks for blankets
To the editor:
Home Health United (HHU)-Janesville would like to thank everyone who went above and beyond in answering our call for help for donations of lap blankets for our hospice patients.
As of now, Janesville and its surrounding communities have donated more than 100 lap blankets for our hospice patients. We have received so many blankets the office is overflowing!
God created all of us as his children
To the editor:
In the January 28 issue of the Catholic Herald, a letter from Paul Richgels accuses Pope Francis of falsely interpreting Scripture when our successor of Peter said all people are children of the same God.
Ex 1:27 says, “God created man in his image, in the divine image he created him, male and female he created him.”
There are not two kinds of people: those created by God and those who are not. God created all of us as his children and loved us so much that he gave us the free will to choose to reciprocate his love!
The importance of Catholic schools
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Monroe students record own newscast at WISC-TV
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Bishop Morlino issues statement on Holy Thursday washing of feet ritual
MADISON — On Thursday, Jan. 21, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship announced that Pope Francis had issued the declaration that “from now on, the people chosen for the washing of the feet in the Liturgy of Holy Thursday may be selected from all the People of God, and not only men . . . ,” thus changing the rule and allowing women to be among those chosen to have their feet washed during the Holy Thursday ritual for the first time.
As with every change in the ritual or law of the Church, the practices and permissions in the Diocese of Madison will be in full accord with those of the Universal Church.
Upon learning of the announcement, Bishop Robert C. Morlino offered the following statement:
The different Rites of the Latin Church
The first in a series by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf about the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
“Bishop Morlino did what? What’s that all about?”
You may have seen notices and articles over the last year or so about Bishop Robert C. Morlino celebrating “Pontifical Mass at the Throne in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.”
It is possible that some of you, seeing “Throne,” and “Pontifical,” and “Extraordinary,” might say “What’s that all about?” as you turn the page.
In a short series over the next few issues of the Catholic Herald, let’s drill into “what that’s all about.”