For those still with me after all of this time, you’ll recall I made some predictions going into this year. Let’s see how wrong I was.
Tag: 2021
The beauty of Christmas
One of my earliest Christmas memories is waking from a nap one afternoon and walking into the living room to see the Christmas tree for the first time, decorated and lit in all of its glory.
Men of Christ: ‘I just saw the world change’
If you walked by the entrance of St. Cecilia Parish in Wisconsin Dells on Saturday, Nov. 13, you might have heard it.
Diocese of Madison joins in celebration of universal Church’s Jubilee Year in 2000
Pope John Paul II declared that the Catholic Church would celebrate a Holy Year or Jubilee Year from Christmas Eve, December 24, 1999, to the Epiphany, January 6, 2001.
Rural listening sessions to start August 31
MADISON — Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison and the diocesan Office of Rural Life will host listening sessions beginning Tuesday evening, Aug. 31, in Monroe.
Edgewood College commits to in-person, on-campus classes for Fall 2021
MADISON — Edgewood College has committed to a return to classes on-campus and in-person when the 2021-22 academic year gets underway.
Candidates and catechumens promise to go forward to the Church
While these past almost 12 months have been filled with reasons and methods to “distance” ourselves from one another, dozens of people growing in their faith recently had a chance to come closer to something.
Msgr. James Bartylla receives award from Warhawk Catholic
WHITEWATER — Warhawk Catholic, the campus ministry for Catholic students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, is pleased to announce the winner of its Distinguished Alumni Award is Msgr. James Bartylla.
He is being recognized as part of an extended celebration of the 50th anniversary of Warhawk Catholic.
Many UW-Whitewater graduates are Catholic, one notable alum being Monsignor Bartylla ‘83, the vicar general of the Diocese of Madison.‘Got a feeling ‘21 is going to be a good year’
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Welcome to the future! If you’ve dragged yourself through A.D. 2020 and just wanted to move onto the next year, congratulations! Here we are! 2021 — the future. This is what we wanted, right?
The way I’m looking at it, one of two things is going to happen as we make our way through “’21”.
Either things are going to be way better, relatively speaking, than they were in 2020, or things are going to reach new levels of 2020-ness, and instead of saying things are “so 2020,” we’ll be saying things are “so 2020s”.
How about that?
We could have an entire decade like the year we just had. Instead of the “Roaring 20s,” we’d have the “Abhorring 20s”?