REEDSBURG — Camp Gray is a place where campers and staff alike come to experience awe and wonder in all that the Creator does, and has done for us.
The summer of 2020 did not begin like anyone could’ve ever imagined.
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Catholic Diocese of Madison Foundation surpasses $50 million in assets
Last Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Board of Directors of the Catholic Diocese of Madison Foundation (CDMF) met for their semi-annual board meeting, to review the past six months of activity and to celebrate the great milestone of surpassing $50 million in assets.
Totus Tuus teaches and shares truths
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| Totus Tuus team member and Diocese of Madison seminarian Ryan Ruhle, center, leads a class during a recent session at Immaculate Conception Parish in Kieler. (Catholic Herald photo/Kevin Wondrash) |
KIELER — The week ended with a water fight.
A week at Totus Tuus typically ends with a water fight, and if you talk to many of the program’s young participants, such as nine-year-old Kara Weber-Droessler, you’d hear, “I really look forward to Fridays because we get to do a giant water fight if we get three 10s.”
The “three 10s” are rewards for good behavior and learning well during the week.
Her friend, nine-year-old Kaylin Crippes, also shared that “I like how we get to do Water Day,” remarking how she’d love to get a bucket of cold water dumped on her as part of the end-of-the-week festivities.
Totus Tuus participants loving the water fight is a truth.
Kids at Totus Tuus also learn other deeper truths, such as the presence of Christ in the Eucharist at Mass, the graces that come from the sacraments, and the importance of prayer as part of daily life.
Program for youth
For the sixth summer in a row, the Diocese of Madison is presenting the summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship.
Diocesan seminarians plan annual Caroling Tour
MADISON — Seminarians of the Diocese of Madison are planning their annual Caroling Tour at parishes and health care facilities on Friday, Dec. 22, and Saturday, Dec. 23. Locations and times include:
Friday, Dec. 22
8 to 8:45 a.m. — Opening Caroling Tour Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Madison
10 to 10:30 a.m. — Park Place Assisted Living, Platteville
11:20 a.m. to 12 noon — Holy Ghost and Immaculate Conception School, Dickeyville
12:30 to 1 p.m. — Atrium Post Acute Care of Lancaster, Lancaster
2:30 to 3 p.m. — Good Samaritan, Fennimore
3:15 to 3:45 p.m. — Boscobel Care & Rehab, Boscobel
An evening of gratitude for seminarian support
For the seminarians of the Diocese of Madison, it was both a sign summer is ending and their studies are about to continue as well as a chance to thank those making their discernment to the priesthood possible.
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Chrism Mass is night of blessings and promises
Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Madison thanked people from throughout the Diocese of Madison for coming to the annual “holy night” of the Chrism Mass held at St. Maria Goretti Church on March 22.
Who will fill these shoes?
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| Fr. Greg Ihm |
“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
There is a story that comes out of the Archdiocese of Chicago that asks a profound question. It is a story of a monsignor.
At his last weekend before retirement, he placed his shoes at the foot of the altar and after a long pause looked out and asked: “Who is going to fill these shoes now?”
This is a question that has been placed before us as a diocese as we have lost both Msgr. Monte Robinson and Fr. Larry Bowens within a week of each other.
In the past three years, we have also lost Fr. John Auby, Fr. Michael Richel, and Msgr. Felix Oehrlein, who were pastors at the time of their death.
Holy Name ‘History Lounge’ seeks memories
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| Marc Ott, lead architect for Gorman & Company, displays some of the items that will be part of the History Lounge in Holy Name Heights, the former Holy Name Seminary in Madison (Catholic Herald photo/Kevin Wondrash). |
MADISON — “We really want to tell the entire story of what it was like to leave home and come to a seminary school and live every day with hundreds of other young men.”
In addition to being the lead architect on the project to repurpose the Bishop O’Connor Center (BOC) in Madison — the former Holy Name Seminary — Marc Ott from Gorman & Company has taken on a sentimental role.
Ott, member of St. Maria Goretti Parish in Madison, along with his wife and children who attend school there, is heading up the efforts to make part of the Holy Name Heights building a museum.
The so-called “History Lounge,” along with other parts of the building, will tell the stories of more than three decades of students who learned and lived within its walls.
The project has sentimental meaning for Ott who is a 1992 graduate of New Glarus High School and used to compete at Holy Name in football and wrestling.
Ott said it’s a “very special connection” and a “lot of fun” to work on the project there.
Looking back and looking ahead
Holy Name opened in 1963 and closed in 1995. The building was then renovated and re-opened in 1998 as the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Pastoral Center.
Since then, it has been serving as the home of diocesan offices and other organizations such as Catholic Charities, the Catholic Herald, Relevant Radio, and Catholic Mutual Group.
Within the last few years, studies were done to determine how to make better use of the building.
There are many reasons to thank God
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| This column is the bishop’s communication with the faithful of the Diocese of Madison. Any wider circulation reaches beyond the intention of the bishop. |
Dear Friends,
Thanksgiving is at the heart of what we do and who we are as a faithful Catholic people.
And so, while there is a great deal to be terribly concerned about in our world, in our nation, and in our own part of the country, there is also a great deal for which we each can offer our thanks to God — which is the origin and the reason for the holiday that is upon us.
On a personal level, I have a great deal for which to be thankful.
In terms of my friends and those with whom I am blessed to serve, I am just that — terribly blessed. Thanks be to God, it’s been another year of good health, and for that too, I cannot fail to be thankful.