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News Briefs:
Council and commission training begins
MADISON -- The Diocese of Madison's Office of Planning is sponsoring training sessions for pastoral and finance council members, commission members, staff, and clergy.
Each session includes norms and guidelines for councils and commissions; relationships between pastoral and finance councils; relationships between councils and commissions; relationships between consultative bodies and parish staff; setting an agenda; conducting productive meetings; suggestions for effective commissions and councils.
All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m., with the exception of the Saturday, Sept. 17, session held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Locations are as follows:
• Tuesday, June 28, at the Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center, Madison
• Wednesday, July 13, at St. John the Baptist Parish, Montello
• Tuesday, Aug. 9, at St. Mary Parish, Platteville
• Thursday, Aug. 18, at St. Joseph Parish, Fort Atkinson
• Thursday, Sept. 15, at St. Jude Parish, Beloit
• Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center, Madison
Cost is $8 per participant. For registration forms or more information, call the Office of Planning at 608-821-3083.
Program for those touched by cancer
SUN PRAIRIE -- St. Marys Hospital Medical Center is offering the next eight-week program of "I Can Cope" beginning Monday, July 11, at St. Albert the Great Parish in Sun Prairie.
The American Cancer Society program runs for eight consecutive Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. through Monday, Aug. 29.
"I Can Cope" is for people with cancer and anyone touched by cancer, such as a spouse, family member, friend, or other support person. It offers information, support, and encouragement.
The class is free and open to the public. To sign up,
call St. Marys Hospital Public Relations and Marketing at 608-258-5065.
CareCorps: Hospital sponsors new volunteer program
BARABOO -- St. Clare Hospital is recruiting volunteers for a new program called CareCorps.
Planned to launch on June 20, CareCorps will have a staff of 20 to 30 volunteers working four-hour shifts as available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
CareCorps volunteers will greet patients and assist them during registration; transport patients in wheelchairs; introduce and explain hospital conveniences and services; and make rounds through the hospital assisting patients and their families as needed.
For more information on opportunities at St. Clare, visit www.stclare.com or
contact Samantha Machovec at 608-356-1430 or e-mail SamanthaMachovec@ssmhc.com
Retreat on the Beatitudes
at Sinsinawa Mound
SINSINAWA -- "Blessed Are You," a retreat on the Beatitudes, will be offered at Sinsinawa Mound from 3 p.m. Monday, July 11, through 1 p.m. Sunday, July 17. Leaders of this preached retreat will be Sr. Barbara Metz and Fr. John Burchill, who co-authored The
Enneagram and Prayer (Dimension Books).
The registration deadline is June 28; there is a fee. For more information, contact Janice DeMuth at 608-748-4411, ext. 811, or visit www.sinsinawa.org/moundcenter
Bishop to visit Camp Gray
BARABOO -- On Wednesday, June 29, Bishop Robert C. Morlino will visit Camp Gray to dedicate three new buildings and to experience the faith, friends, and fun found at camp. Bishop Morlino will be dedicating a new staff home, a new maintenance building, and a new camp chapel, which were all built through generous donations to the Live out Loud Capital Campaign.
The Camp Gray staff is excited to host the bishop and other special guests in the middle of one of their summer camp sessions, said Joe Van Tassel, operations and development manager.
Baseball tickets
MADISON -- St. Marys Hospital and the Madison Mallards are teaming up to give baseball fans over the age of 60 special treatment at the park on Sundays.
Fans 60 and older will also receive two-for-one price tickets on all Sunday games after June 12.
This offer is sponsored by St. Marys Golden Care, a free program of health care related services designed just for seniors. Golden Care offers members free benefits such as screenings, education, and social events.
Visit www.stmarysmadison.com for more information or contact Janet Adams, Golden Care Coordinator at 608-258-5270.
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Bishop Morlino: Worship presence of Christ in Eucharist with joy and gratitude
By Sarah Baldwin
CATHOLIC HERALD STAFF
(See also front-page photo and sidebar.)
MADISON -- Bishop Robert C. Morlino presided at a Mass celebrated at St. Maria Goretti Church in Madison on the Feast of Corpus Christi, May 29.
In his homily, Bishop Morlino discussed the topic of gratitude, noting that the word "Eucharist" itself means gratitude or thanksgiving.
He said, "On Friday I had the gift of the deepest gratitude I ever felt in my whole life.
It's a year of gratitude after my heart surgery, gratitude to be here and be well. I'm grateful to my caregivers. I'm grateful to Bishop Bullock and Bishop Wirz for picking up the slack. The Lord made me more grateful for my parents and my family than I ever have been. I'm more grateful for the priesthood, grateful for the office of bishop."
Sometimes if people are bored at Mass or under an obligation to be there, they come late and leave early, he said. The reason it happens is because "we don't come here with an attitude of gratitude. We think about things that are wrong when we come here. If I don't come here with attitude of gratitude, I'm not a disciple of Jesus Christ." We should come here thankful so we leave even more thankful, he said.
"Take a walk with Jesus, called a Eucharistic procession. Take a walk from the sacrifice of the altar and come back and worship the presence of Christ in the Eucharist," said the bishop.
"The Eucharist has its source in the sacrifice of the Mass. If a Christian believes in God and they never pray, that's got to be a sin. If Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, how could I not spend my time adoring Christ in the Eucharist? If I never spend time with him, that's got to be a sin."
We are grateful for our salvation in Christ, he said. We are more grateful for the possibility of heaven than for anything else.
"Lastly, how do we feel when we're grateful? We feel joyful," noted Bishop Morlino. Therefore, joy should be the mark of all followers of Christ.
Seminarians working
in diocese:
Talk at parishes, serve in ministries
MADISON -- David Carrano, Brian Dulli, and Mitch Knutson, seminarians from the Diocese of Madison, are giving vocations talks during weekend Masses at parishes throughout the diocese over the summer.
During the summer, Knutson, Dulli, and seminarian Patrick Wendler are living at the Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center in Madison and assisting Fr. Jim Bartylla, director, in the Office of Vocations there. Carrano is based at St. Aloysius Parish, Sauk City, during the summer and ministering to the Hispanic community. For the summer, seminarian David Greenfield is based at St. Maria Goretti Parish, Madison, and seminarian Lance Schneider is based at St. Patrick Parish, Lodi. Seminarian Christopher Reitz is volunteering at Relevant Radio in Madison.
The schedule for the seminarians' talks on vocations follows:
| Date |
Mitch Knutson |
Brian Dulli |
David Carrano |
| June 4-5 |
St. Peter, Madison |
St. Bernard, Madison |
Holy Redeemer, Madison |
| June 11-12 |
St. Thomas, Montfort
SS. Anthony and Philip, Highland |
St. John, Muscoda
St. Joseph, Avoca
St. Malachy, Clyde |
St. Boniface, Lime Ridge
Holy Family, La Valle
St. Patrick, Loreto |
| June 18-19 |
SS. Andrew and Thomas, Potosi |
St. Francis, Hazel Green
St. Joseph, Sinsinawa |
St. Barnabas, Mazomanie
St. John, Mill Creek |
| June 25-26 |
St. Joseph, Argyle
St. Michael, Yellowstone
St. Joseph, Gratiot
St. John, South Wayne |
St. Charles, Cassville
St. Mary, Glen Haven |
St. John, Princeton
St. James, Neshkoro |
| July 2-3 |
St. Mary, Portage
St. Mary, Briggsville |
St. Joseph, Baraboo |
St. Camillus, Durward Glen
St. Mary, Merrimac |
| July 9-10 |
St. Philomena, Belmont
St. Michael, Calamine
Immaculate Conception, Truman |
Immaculate Conception, Boscobel
St. John, Castle Rock |
St. Joseph, Dodgeville |
| July 16-17 |
All Saints, Berlin |
St. Mary, Bloomington
St. John, Patch Grove |
St. Joseph, Markesan
St. Mary, Kingston |
| July 23-24 |
Statewide seminarian gathering |
| July 30-31 |
St. Stephen, Clinton |
St. Mary, Pardeeville
St. Andrew, Buffalo |
St. Paul, Evansville
St. Augustine, Footville |
| Aug. 6-7 |
Our Lady of the Lake, Green Lake |
St. Joseph, Edgerton |
St. Mary, Belleville
St. James, Dayton |
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