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News Briefs:
CONNECTIONS Mass, reception with bishop
MADISON -- CONNECTIONS participants and facilitators will gather for Mass and a reception with Bishop Robert C. Morlino on Friday, Dec. 14, to celebrate the journey of faith their small groups have taken during the six-week series this fall.
CONNECTIONS is a small group initiative sponsored by the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis and run by the Evangelical Catholic.
The Mass will begin at 6 p.m. and the reception will be held at 7 p.m., at the Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center. All participants, facilitators, and their spouses are invited to this evening of celebration. Childcare will be provided.
Register online at www.madisondiocese.org (click Ministry, Evangelization and Catechesis, Programs & Events, and then CONNECTIONS), or contact Michael Havercamp at 608-821-3166 or mhavercamp@evangelicalcatholic.org
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass to be held Dec. 8
(en Español)
MADISON -- Come and celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe! All are invited to the diocesan Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration on Saturday, Dec. 8, at St. Patrick Parish, 404 E. Main St.
Mass begins at 12:15 p.m. and will fulfill the holy day obligation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. To participate in the procession with flowers or in traditional dress, arrive at 11:30 a.m.
All are welcome to celebrate the Queen of the Americas with your community this beautiful day.
St. Mary's Hospital open house to celebrate expansion opening
MADISON -- After nearly 100 years serving the Madison area, St. Mary's Hospital is celebrating a major milestone. On January 2 it will open its doors to a brand new inpatient building and December 17 the doors will open to the new outpatient building.
All are invited to take a look before it opens. An open house will be held Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. Parking is available in the new 700-stall parking structure on the corner of Erin and Park Sts.
The expansion project includes a 235,000 square foot inpatient building, complete with 22 new operating rooms - three of which are entirely for cardiovascular surgery. The building also features 75 new private patient rooms - with a look and feel of home, state of the art equipment complete with new CT scanners and x-rays, in addition to nearly doubling its emergency room space.
At rooftop level, there is a new helipad with trauma elevators nearby which will drop directly into cath labs. The new expansion features an 8,500 square foot cardiac rehabilitation area adjacent to a winter garden. A walkway connects the new inpatient building to a new Dean outpatient building housing the surgery and care center, digestive health center, and physician offices.
Breakfast with Santa
at Edgewood High
MADISON -- On Saturday, Dec. 15, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. there will be a Breakfast with Santa in the Edgewood High School Commons. The jolly old elf returns to this annual pancake and sausage feast for kids of all ages.
Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for kids 12 and under. Price includes a photo with Santa. Reservations are strongly recommended. Contact Tammy Ehrmann, 608-257-1023, ext. 185, to make reservations.
Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart is a 665-student Catholic school that educates the whole student for a life of learning, service, and personal responsibility.
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Article removed: Because of a licensing agreement with Catholic News Service, the Catholic Herald may archive CNS news stories for only 30 days. A CNS article has been removed from this site: Ethical breakthrough: Seen in new stem-cell studies.
A related story was published in the November 29, 2007 print edition of the Catholic Herald.
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Apostolate television Mass: Celebrates 40 years on air
By Kat Wagner
CATHOLIC HERALD STAFF
MADISON -- The Apostolate to the Handicapped television Mass has been a staple of the WISC-TV, Channel 3, programming for 40 years now, this Sunday, Dec. 2.
The first Apostolate television Mass in the Diocese of Madison aired on the first Sunday of Advent in 1967. It was the start of the Apostolate to the Handicapped, headed by Msgr. Thomas Campion, or "TC" as he's often called, serving the elderly and those with disabilities.
The Apostolate holds several large gatherings each year to celebrate Christmas and Easter and to enjoy the summer weather in Wisconsin Dells, but the television Mass has always been the key to the ministry, Monsignor Campion said.
"As we say in every intro, the TV Mass is the most integral part of the service of the Apostolate." Everything the Apostolate does, he said, "stems from the TV Mass. It's the core, the foundation."
It gives people the hope and inspiration to carry on through their week, he said. Some have even called it their "food and drink for the week ahead."
The Mass began with the kindness of Elizabeth Murphy, the owner of WISC-TV at the time. And when Murphy died, her daughter Elizabeth Burns, the current station owner, kept the promise alive. The station has provided the service to the Apostolate and its viewers for 2,080 Masses now - once a week without fail, spanning four decades.
"It's similar to a Guinness Book world record," Monsignor Campion said. "And you've gotta give Channel 3" the credit.
It is one of the longest running television Masses in the country and WISC-TV is one of the few stations to provide a half-hour of free airtime to any church program.
David Sanks, the general manager of WISC-TV and executive president of its parent company,
Television Wisconsin, Inc., said there have been many comments from people over the years about the Mass, saying what a wonderful service it is to the community and how thankful they are to be able to attend Mass in their home.
"It has proven to be a very helpful and beneficial presentation for the disabled community," he said.
As to whether the Mass will continue to keep its "world record," "We have no plans to change anything," Sanks said.
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