SAUK CITY — The Mary, Mother of God women’s group from Divine Mercy Parish will be hosting the Taste of Divine Mercy: An Adoration Chapel Celebration on Saturday, April 29, after the 4:30 p.m. Mass in the St. Aloysius School gym in Sauk City.
Guests can bid on their favorite dishes to determine the winner in each category of food. There will also be a silent auction. Proceeds from the celebration will support the upkeep and renovation of the Adoration Chapel.
REEDSBURG — Because of security reasons the parents of the boy pictured with this article have given permission to use his picture but only with his first name — Basheer.
The family has been in this country less than a year and they still fear that there could be separation, rejection, or forced return — just generally lots of settlement fears.
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Sixth in a series of seven articles on forgiveness.
It is so special that the Second Vatican Council referred to the family as “the domestic church” (Lumen Gentium #11).
On the Feast of the Annunciation this year (March 25), Pope Francis, in a talk to 27 heads of government, stated, “Europe finds new hope when she . . . invests in the family, which is the first and fundamental cell of society.”
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it is in the family that children learn to love.
It is so sad that the family also is the first place where too many children (and adults) learn conflict and division and discord.
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A few years ago, our Catholicism series film crew arrived at the shores of a large lake in far northwest Ireland, in the county of Donegal. We stepped onto a ferry and were taken to an island in the middle of the lake.
On the island was a collection of buildings, which in both architecture and color reminded me vividly of Alcatraz prison. The weather that day was horrific: temperature around 50, heavy winds, and a steady cold rainfall. Our hosts offered us tea and scones and then we made our way onto the island to begin our work.
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Fifth in a series of seven articles on forgiveness.
All of a sudden, Martha, age 28, found herself unable to cope with life.
Until now, the challenges were few and manageable. She grew up in a stable two-parent household, was an excellent student, and graduated from a university. She married and was blessed with two young children.
Four weeks ago, her husband suddenly and unexpectedly asked for a divorce. This is something for which Martha was unprepared.
She is having trouble sleeping, sometimes is not patient with the children, and is constantly tired. She wishes to forgive, but she is unsure how to accomplish this. “I am confused, angry, and scared. I do not know how to even start forgiving him” is her honest response.
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I am always pleased when the feasts of St. Patrick and St. Joseph roll around every year, the first on March 17 and the second on March 19. Joseph is especially dear to the Italian people, who celebrate him with festive meals, and Patrick, of course, is specially reverenced by my own people, the Irish, who celebrate him with parades, parties, and (often) too much drinking.
Though separated by four centuries and though hailing from extremely different cultures, Patrick and Joseph have a great deal in common, spiritually speaking. For both stubbornly situated their lives in the context, not of the ego-drama, but the theo-drama, and therein lies their importance for the universal church.
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| The new St. Paul’s Catholic Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is being built. It is expected to open its doors in October of 2017, ready to kick off a new era in Catholic campus ministry. (Contributed photo) |
MADISON — Each day, thousands of students wend their way through Library Mall, the lively hub of Madison’s University of Wisconsin campus.
They sample international cuisine from the many colorful food carts, hit the stacks at Memorial Library, take in the view of Lake Mendota at the Memorial Union Terrace, and settle in with a bag lunch to enjoy an open-air music performance or watch jugglers practicing their routine.
Smack-dab in the middle of all this bustle, a new St. Paul’s Catholic Center is making its way skyward, one steel beam at a time, aiming to open its doors in October, 2017, ready to kick off a new era in the history of Catholic campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Second in a series on the recent conference on “Dignity at the End of Life, from Suffering to Hope,” held in Fitchburg.
Imagine this: You are a healthy, 30-year-old husband, father, and accomplished musician — active, repeatedly successful, and comfortably employed.
Suddenly, you wake up one day to find you are numb to all sensation below your waist. More symptoms follow, resulting in weeks of tests and still more tests.
To the editor:
My husband and I have been blessed to be able to homeschool our four children and also to send them to Catholic schools for their upper grades. We have tried to provide them with a morally and spiritually safe place where they would grow up to be compassionate and confident individuals ready to serve with their talents when they graduate.
MADISON — Recently a group of priests involved in Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Madison met to begin to plan for a diocesan-wide effort to welcome and minister to Hispanic Catholics living in the diocese.
The priests are hoping to involve Hispanic parishioners following a grass-roots, consultative format that has been initiated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called Encuentro. Encuentro is a national effort on behalf of the Catholic Church in the United States to respond to the needs of Hispanic Catholics and to strengthen the ways in which Hispanics respond to the call to the New Evangelization as missionary disciples serving the entire Church.
