ASHTON — St. Peter Parish in Ashton is a drop-off center spot for the Cross Catholic Outreach Box of Joy program the week of November 4 through November 12.
The drop-off center hours at St. Peter will be: November 4 (6:30-7:30 p.m.), November 11 (2-4 p.m.), and November 12 (10 a.m.-12 noon). Boxes will be collected in the church gathering room, 7121 CR K, Middleton 53562. A team of volunteers will be there to greet people.
MIDDLETON — All are invited to participate in a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse on Thursday, Oct. 5 (Feast of St. Faustina).
The pilgrimage will leave from St. Bernard Church, 2015 Parmenter St., Middleton, loading the motorcoach at 6:45 a.m., leaving at 7 a.m. The group will leave La Crosse at 4 p.m., arriving at St. Bernard’s parking lot at approximately 6:30 p.m.
CROSS PLAINS — On Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 9 p.m., St. Francis Xavier Parish is hosting an evening of celebration for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima to three peasant children.
Guest speaker Juan Landa from Mater Dei Tours will share his insights on Our Lady’s important message and how it applies to the Church and our lives today.
CROSS PLAINS — On Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 9 p.m., St. Francis Xavier Parish is hosting an evening of celebration for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima to three peasant children.
Guest speaker Juan Landa from Mater Dei Tours will share his insights on Our Lady’s important message and how it applies to the Church and our lives today.
CROSS PLAINS — […]
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Fleming Rutledge’s The Crucifixion is one of the most stimulating and thought-provoking books of theology that I have read in the past 10 years.
Both an academic and a well-regarded preacher in the Episcopal tradition, Rutledge has an extraordinary knack of cutting to the heart of the matter. Her book on the central reality of the Christian faith is supremely illuminating, a delight for the inquiring mind — and man, will it ever preach.
Editor’s Note: Joy and Bill Exner are section representatives for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. in the Diocese of Madison. They are members of St. Mary Parish in Pine Bluff, where they are both lectors and involved in marriage preparation. Bill is a parish trustee, Rosary leader, and sacristan.
We just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and want to share with you some of our experiences.
Our observations focus mainly on the people living in the Holy Land rather than the holy sites, as it is the people who sustain these holy places and keep them alive.
BARABOO — The […]
CROSS PLAINS — St. Francis Xavier Parish invites everyone to take part in their upcoming “Surge of the Heart” Parish Mission.
Guest speaker is Jon Leonetti, an international Catholic speaker and author of two books entitled Mission of the Family and Your God Is Too Boring.
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Editor’s note: George Weigel wrote this column from Jerusalem.
Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalems Old City on my first visit here in 15 years, I was powerfully struck once again by the grittiness of Christianity, the palpable connection between the faith and the quotidian realities of life.
For here, as in no other place, the believer, the skeptic, and the “searcher” are confronted with a fact: Christianity began, not with a pious story or “narrative,” but with the reality of transformed lives.
