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Rosary March to be held May 3 in Madison
MADISON — The 77th Semi-Annual International Rosary March and May Crowning will be held on Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 W. Johnson St.
A 15-decade Rosary will be prayed in procession around the block and inside the church. The Rosary procession will be followed by the presentation of a May crown and flowers to Our Lady, a homily by Fr. Ivan Strmecki, OFM (Sacred Heart Croation Parish in Milwaukee), and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Chief of police speaks to Catholic attorneys
MADISON — Michael C. Koval, chief of police of Madison, brings an interesting skill set to speak to Catholic attorneys at the St. Thomas More Society meeting on Friday, May 1, at 7:30 a.m. at St. Patrick Church, 404 E. Main St.
Koval holds a journalism degree from UW-Madison and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law. He will speak on “Law Enforcement and Lawyers.”
Christopher West will speak to students on a ‘new sexual revolution’
MADISON — Christopher West, globally recognized as a leading chastity speaker and author, will speak to University of Wisconsin-Madison’s students Thursday, April 23, at 7:15 p.m., at St. Paul University Catholic Center, 723 State St.
Badger Catholic invites all students and their friends to join the organization’s speaker event, “What is Love? A New Sexual Revolution.”
During the event, students will have the opportunity to learn more about “Theology of the Body,” a bold, biblical vision of love and sexuality written by St. John Paul II.
Talk on Catholic response to global warming
MADISON — Pope Francis’ universal prayer intention for the month of April this year is “That people may learn to respect creation and care for it as a gift of God.”
This summer the pope is expected to issue an encyclical on ecology.
In synch with the pope’s prayer intention and in anticipation of his encyclical, Steve Coleman, a parishioner of St. Dennis Parish in Madison and a retired mechanical engineer, will present “A Catholic Response to Global Warming” on Thursday, April 16, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 602 Everglade Dr.
Catholic women schedule spring vicariate meetings
Women of the diocese are invited to spring vicariate meetings scheduled at St. John the Baptist Church, Princeton, April 22; Holy Ghost Church, Dickeyville, April 23; and St. Joseph Church, Baraboo, April 25.
Rosa Ropers, president of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW), encourages women to attend a gathering to pray, socialize, and learn with other Catholic women in their area.
Hundreds pack meals to ‘feed my sheep’
MADISON — “You are the Gospel today.”
Those were the words of Msgr. Ken Fiedler during his homily at a Mass attended by dozens of volunteers, some of whom had put in an eight-hour day.
For the fourth year in a row, the Catholic Multicultural Center in Madison was busy with people of all ages packing meals for the hungry in the area and around the world.
West Dane Spring Vicariate Council of Catholic Women to meet
VERONA — St. Christopher Parish will host the spring West Dane Vicariate Council of Catholic Women meeting at its St. Andrew Church site on Tuesday, April 7, starting with registration at 8:30 a.m. and ending with a Rosary and Benediction at 1 p.m.
Shirley Kelter, a spiritual director and retreat facilitator, will speak at 10 a.m. on “Spirituality in the Elderly.” She serves as chaplain and program director for Honoring Our Elders, a spiritual care and companionship ministry in Sauk Prairie, and is an on-call/night chaplain at UW Hospital.
St. John Paul II and the ‘tyranny of the possible’
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The reputations of the great often diminish over time. Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago.
Tens of millions of men and women around the world felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his “Passover” — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice-Holy God.
On this anniversary, as at his canonization last year, what seems most memorable about the man, at least at this historical moment, was that he refused to accommodate to the “tyranny of the possible:” the idea that some things just can’t be put right; that we’re stuck with the way things are, however much we may dislike them.
Living Last Supper
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