POYNETTE — Parishioners off all physical abilities now have access to a restroom at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Poynette.
The recent opening of the family restroom provides access and space for everyone, especially those who have to use a wheelchair to get around.
MADISON — Many people in the Diocese of Madison are familiar with the Dead Theologians Society (DTS).
Eddie Cotter, Jr., founded DTS in 1997. DTS became a Private Association of the Faithful in March of 2015 and is headquartered in the Diocese of Madison.
Recently, Cotter provided updated information on what DTS has been doing.
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| Fr. Jim Leeser, pastor of St. Mary/St. Paul Parish in Mineral Point, prays with people at a Prayer and Worship Healing Service held at the parish. (Contributed photo) |
MINERAL POINT — I learned and participated in Praise and Worship Healing Services while a seminarian at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Mich.
The Praise and Worship Healing Services were offered on Friday nights as part of St. Paul Evangelization. The attendance at these events was a full room with some standing.
Why? People, from other faiths can participate in the service, many came to be prayed over, and through the power of the Holy Spirit be healed of physical, mental, and emotional situations.
The power of the Holy Spirit in prayer healed many people at these services. The Holy Spirit works through the priest and/or the prayer teams in this ministry. Healings sometimes were on the spot, sometimes at a later date, and some not to be.
I witnessed the power of forgiveness between two people whom I know very well. The unforgiveness between the two lasted over a decade.
MADISON — Expanding its music ministry, the Madison Diocesan Choir is launching an initiative likely to benefit parishes throughout the diocese for years to come: student scholarships to help ensure a new generation of liturgical musicians, as members of their church choirs or choir accompanists.
The Youth Pastoral Musician Scholarship Award begins this year with two $500 awards, one to a junior high school student, the other to a senior high school student, allowing them to attend an approved summer music clinic. To be eligible, students must be involved in their parish music programs as regular participants.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Portage on March 3, for Fr. Lawrence Richard Heitke, 77, who died on February 28, 2018.
MADISON — Since 1972, the Catholic bishhops in the United States have held an Encuentro every five to eight years to give Hispanic/Latino Catholics an opportunity to express their needs, aspirations, and contributions to the Church.
In 2018, the fifth Encuentro — V Encuentro — is being held throughout the country. Its theme is “Missionary Disciples: Witnesses of God’s Love.” The main goal of the V Encuentro is to discern ways in which the Church in the United States can better respond to the Hispanic/Latino presence, and to strengthen the ways in which Hispanics/Latinos respond to the call to the New Evangelization as missionary disciples serving the entire Church.
“In daring to hope, we express our faith and love in the Lord, and in daring to hope, we will find ourselves loving and caring for the spiritual needs of those in our diocese and elsewhere.”
Bishop Robert C. Morlino has chosen “We Dare to Hope” as the theme of the 2018 Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA). …
MADISON — With stories of workplace and school shootings making up the latest news headlines, the task of learning how to protect one’s self and save lives is gaining importance.
Staff members from the Diocese of Madison and other organizations in the Holy Name Heights building recently took part in active shooter training in order to be prepared to react to an event, if it should happen.
To the left of the main stage at Frassati Fest, there was a photo booth.
The more than 400 participants, leaders, and guests, could wear silly costume accessories, hold flags, or hold each other, and get their pictures taken for later memory and social media use.
This past weekend we heard the moving story of the man healed by Jesus of leprosy (Mk 1:40-45). Now, it’s a miraculous story of Jesus healing someone from a painful and humiliating disease, and that in its own right is worthy of our consideration.
