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‘Don’t know what you got (till it’s gone)’

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“These are the good old days” — William Powell as “Nick Charles” in The Thin Man (1934).

Someday, Lent will pass and spring will have arrived. Someday, winter will be back. Someday, I’ll hit age 40. Someday, I will no longer be the editor of the Catholic Herald. Someday, I will die. (Well, that escalated quickly.)

Everything we know, love, and treasure on this Earth will be lost to us or will pass away.

Despite the initial emotional reactions to those statements, they are facts.

All of our “stuff” will either leave us or we will leave it. The same goes for our friends and loved ones. For life to go on, ob-la-di, ob-la-da, someone has to depart from someone.

That’s not a bad thing

Because it is Lent, you get to read the obligatory “but that’s not a bad thing . . . because Heaven” spiel.

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Msgr. Michael Burke dies

The Reverend Monsignor Michael Laurence Burke entered eternal life on September 19, 2020 at the age of 72, at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. He was born on March 11, 1948 in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, the oldest of eight siblings, and is predeceased by his parents, Laurence and Claribel (Gough) Burke, and by his sister, Maggie.

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Mass of Christian Burial for Msgr. O. Charles Schluter

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 304 East St. in Baraboo, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 at 11 a.m. for Msgr. Orra Charles Schluter who died on February 16, 2020 at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee at the age of 75.

Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison will celebrate the Holy Mass, with Msgr. Daniel T. Ganshert as homilist. Visitation at St. Joseph Catholic Church will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 from 4 to 7 p.m., and on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 from 9 a.m. until the start of the Holy Mass. Burial will take place at St. Joseph Parish Cemetery, Baraboo. A funeral luncheon will take place in the parish school gymnasium after the Funeral Mass.

 

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Sr. Florence Miller, OP, dies

SINSINAWA, Wis. — Sr. Florence Miller, OP, died January 13, 2020, at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis. Her religious name was Sister Roderic. The funeral Mass was held at the Dominican Motherhouse, Sinsinawa, January 18, followed by burial of the cremains in the Motherhouse Cemetery on January 20.

Sister Florence made her first Religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican August 5, 1945, and her perpetual profession August 5, 1948. She taught for 38 years and served as principal for one year, and finance director for 10 years. Sister Florence served the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa at the Motherhouse in various positions for 15 years. She served in Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Missouri, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

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