“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother’. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” (John 19: 25-27)
Tag: Mary
Mary as a special channel of grace
s we enter into the Advent season, we ponder the fact that Jesus came to us through Mary.
Celebrating Mary this Advent season
In the December issue of Magnificat, Fr. Sebastian White, OP, the editor, profoundly reflected on the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the sacred garden of God, where no sin or death can enter.
Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for us
Dear Blessed Mother: Now would be a really good time to pray, wouldn’t it? Now would be a good time to ask for your intercession with all of the knots in our lives: Confusion, chaos, uncertainty, and more confusion.
The home of Bethany
Throughout the liturgical year of the Church, the feasts and memorials celebrating the saints provide opportunities to learn from their witness and ask for their intercessory prayers.
Let us enjoy the year of St. Joseph
In his apostolic Letter Patris Corde, (“With a Father’s Heart”), Pope Francis recalls the 150th anniversary of the declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church.
A look back: Bishop O’Connor chooses leaders to help run new Diocese of Madison
Fourth in a series on the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Madison
The Diocese of Madison grew rapidly after its founding in 1946.
To help Bishop William P. O’Connor run the new diocese, Msgr. Jerome J. Hastrich was named vicar general, chancellor, and director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Bishop Hastrich became auxiliary bishop of the diocese in 1963.
In 1969, he was named the bishop of Gallup, N.M.
Growth of Catholic population led to new Diocese of Madison in 1946
First in a series on the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Madison
MADISON — In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Catholic population had been expanding in the southwestern region of Wisconsin, leading to the formation of the Diocese of Madison in 1946.
Work of missionary priests
The faith had grown thanks to the work of missionary priests, including Venerable Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP, who built 25 churches and established nine schools in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois in the 1800s.
He also founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Sinsinawa. Their work has kept his legacy alive to this day.
Sr. Peggy Glynn, OP, dies
SINSINAWA, Wis. — Sister Margaret “Peggy” Glynn, OP, died Dec. 31, 2020, at the Dominican motherhouse, Sinsinawa. Her religious name was Sister Mary Leon. The funeral Mass was held at the Dominican motherhouse, Jan. 8, 2021, followed by burial in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Religious Sister discovers love for the ancient Christian art of iconography
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| Sr. Anne Joseph of the Sisters of Mary Morning Star in Monona works on an Icon of the Madonna and Child. (Contributed photo) |
MONONA — “When you find something that you really love to do, and you’re passionate about it, it changes everything,” said Sr. Anne Joseph from the Sisters of Mary Morning Star in Monona.
She was speaking about her recent involvement in the practice of “writing” icons, an ancient Christian art form that dates back to the earliest centuries of Christian history.
These pieces of art, known for their non-realistic, heavily symbolic, and copied imagery (writing an icon is more often a process of carefully repainting a pre-existing image with much tradition and history behind it), were not something Sister Anne said she fully appreciated when she first dabbled in the art form in high school. Back in about 2005, she took a class in iconography through the Institute of St. Joseph in Boyd, Wis.
“I wasn’t originally attracted to them,” she said. “But I was kind of an artist.”
She said that it was more of her dad who really loved icons. “At the time, I wanted to do more realistic paintings.”
But she says she believes her 11 years at the Sisters of Mary Morning Star convent prepared her to develop a better appreciation for the practice of writing and praying with icons.
A new opportunity
It was early March of this year, just before the world was turned upside down with the coronavirus, that Sister Anne was given the second opportunity in her life to get involved in iconography.
Drazen Dupor, who has been teaching iconography in the Madison area since 2003, was offering a three-session class at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Monona.
Sister Anne saw the advertisement and was interested, but due to the cost of the class, she thought it best not to ask her prioress for permission to take the class.
“So, what happened was quite providential,” she said. “My prioress asked me and another Sister if we wanted to do this icon class, and I said, ‘Yes!’ Like you don’t even know that I actually do icons. So we did the class, and I really loved it.”