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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Students in Ashton learn about mercy and prayer

ASHTON — “I want to talk to you today about something very special that we can pray about,” said Grace Mazza Urbanski, director of children’s ministry for the Apostleship of Prayer, to students at St. Peter School in Ashton.

That “very special thing” was mercy.

“We’re going to pretend we are mercy walking through the world,” Urbanski said.

The Apostleship of Prayer, based in Milwaukee, encourages Christians to make a daily offering of themselves to the Lord for the coming of God’s Kingdom and for the Holy Father’s monthly intentions.

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Lenten service project to help children overseas

ASHTON — In the Republic of Sierra Leona in West Africa, you would see the faces of children and families affected by the Ebola outbreak. If you look closer, you’ll also see “the face of Jesus in every child.”

That’s the message of Savior of the World — a children’s center that provides aid and a witness to the Gospel to orphaned and needy children in Sierra Leone.

The parish community at St. Peter in Ashton and St. Martin of Tours in Martinsville, including the religious education program, school, and other parishioners, are working this Lent to help support Savior of the World.

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Kevin Wondrash

St. Peter Catholic School plans Christmas program

MIDDLETON — St. Peter Catholic School’s Christmas Program will take place on Monday, Dec. 15, at 6:30 pm.

This year’s program will feature the musical Miracle at Midnight performed by pre-K to fifth grade students. The moving story includes Bethlehem’s mayor preparing for a decree by Caesar Augustus, angels in heaven anticipating an important announcement, and a young couple from Nazareth getting ready for the birth of their first child.

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Kevin Wondrash

Annual quilt show to be held in Waunakee

WAUNAKEE — St. John’s Piecemakers Quilt Club in Waunakee will host its 14th annual “Quilting through the Ages” quilt show on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the St. John School gym, 114 E. Third St.

More than 150 quilts will be displayed along with quilts that will be donated to local charities. There will be a silent auction and quilt sale benefitting the Waunakee Food Pantry. Luncheon items will be served by the Ashton Go-Getters 4-H Club.

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Chris Lee

Former Assistant Superintendent of Schools Monica Bischoff dies

Monica Bischoff

VERONA — Monica Grace Bischoff, former assistant superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Madison and former principal at St. Peter School in Ashton, died on January 22.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1, at St. Andrew Catholic Church, 301 N. Main St., Verona, with Bishop Robert C. Morlino presiding. Private burial will follow at St. Andrew Catholic Cemetery, Verona.

Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, at Ryan Funeral Home, Verona Chapel, 220 Enterprise Dr., with a vigil service at 7 p.m. There will be no visitation prior to Mass at the church, but the family will receive visitors during the luncheon following the private burial.

Monica was born on February 19, 1960, in Verona. She married Francis Ray on December 14, 1996, at St. William Catholic Church in Paoli.

 

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Cathy Lins, for the Catholic Herald

Parishes to host exhibition of sacred relics

ASHTON/SUN PRAIRIE — St. Peter Parish in Ashton and Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Parish in Sun Prairie will host an exhibition of sacred relics with Fr. Carlos Martins of the Companions of the Cross.

St. Peter Parish, 7121 County Hwy. K, will host an evening of exposition and presentation on hundreds of sacred relics on Monday, June 24. The evening will begin at 7 p.m. with catechesis on holy relics by Father Martins in the church building and will continue with the relics exhibition in the school building.

As part of the year-long celebration of the parish’s 150th anniversary, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Parish, 221 Columbus St., Sun Prairie, will present a teaching and exposition of sacred relics on Tuesday, June 25, at 7 p.m.  Father Martins will teach about these holy objects.

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