News from around the 11 counties of the Diocese of Madison.
ESCANABA, Mich. — Despite gray skies and cold, blustery winds, the Madison Diocesan Choir’s recent mini-tour of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) will be remembered as a joyful hymn of praise, a wonderful weekend of friendship and spiritual renewal.
Perhaps more so than any other trip, members not only sang beautifully, they lived the music, embodying John Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth and Harold W. Friedell’s Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether.
SUN PRAIRIE — Answering the call of Pope Francis to be in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world, St. Albert the Great Parish recently welcomed some special guests.
The parish has been paired with Precious Blood of Jesus Parish in Potino, Haiti, as its sister parish.
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BARABOO/PORTAGE — The Pizza Ranch restaurants in Baraboo and Portage are holding Community Impact Nights to benefit Durward‘s Glen OLRG, Ltd.
The event in Baraboo will be on Monday, Oct. 26, at the Pizza Ranch at 1000 Log Lodge Ct. The event in Portage will be on Monday, Nov. 2, at the Pizza Ranch at 2905 New Pinery Rd. Both events run from 4:30 to 8 p.m.
MADISON — A communal Stations of the Cross is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, downtown at the Cathedral Square Way of the Cross, on the east corner of W. Washington Ave. and S. Henry St.
St. Paul University Catholic Center stands on the threshold of a new era in its ministry to students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The leadership of St. Paul’s has given the green light to setting in motion plans that will replace the 50-year-old concrete chapel and century-old student center with a …
SAUK CITY — How many people can you feed with a semi-truck full of food? The answer to that question is more than you might think, if you look at who is packing the meals.
In Sauk City, the nonprofit organization 6:8 Making Service Personal is planning its fourth annual Sauk Prairie Against Hunger (SPAH) Pack Event for October 22 to 24. Its goal is to pack 272,000 meals and to collect three tons of food and goods for the Sauk Prairie Food Pantry.
The Catholic Encyclopedia says, “A pilgrimage may be described as a journey to a sacred shrine or sanctuary for a religious motive.”
People have been making such special journeys for centuries. A pilgrimage expresses one’s faith — for a person believes that God is present in a special way at a particular shrine, because of the holy person(s) who lived or died there, and because of the holy things that happened in history there.
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