SINSINAWA — Sr. […]
Year: 2012
Unidad en la Iglesia a través del Papa
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Queridos amigos:
Como muchos de ustedes deben saber, en las semanas pasadas tuve mi retiro anual. No doy por descontada la bendición que fue haber tenido ese tiempo de oración, silencio y escucha del Señor.
Sé bien que las exigencias cotidianas de la vida hacen casi imposible para la mayoría de nosotros, especialmente en estos días y en esta época, tomarse un tiempo para un retiro espiritual. Sin embargo los aliento a tratar de encontrar el tiempo necesario para esta experiencia. (Aquí en nuestro centro diocesano acabamos de ofrecer un retiro de fin de semana y hay muchas oportunidades en diversos lugares y en distintos momentos del año).
Fr. J. Daryl Furlong dies
MADISON — Fr. J. Daryl Furlong, pastor emeritus of the Diocese of Madison, died on Saturday, March 17, at the age of 73 while residing during the winter months in Florida.
Mandate should be seen as attack on religious liberty
To the editor:
At a recent gathering at our parish, I overheard a group of people discussing the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate. The consensus of their conversation could be summed up as follows: “The bishops are getting way too riled up over this issue. It is an election year after all and the president will back down on this.”
As Archbishop Chaput stated, “The current administration prides itself on being measured and deliberate. The current HHS mandate needs to be understood as exactly that.”
Mass and hospitality celebrate new Good Shepherd Parish
MADISON — More than 400 people filled St. Joseph Church, 1905 W. Beltline Hwy., Madison, for the March 3 Mass celebrating the merger of St. Joseph and St. James Parishes into Good Shepherd Parish.
Grouts honored as longest married couple in Wisconsin
MADISON — Their children say that Rosemary and Joseph Grout are a wonderful role model for their family and everyone they meet.
“Their faith is incredibly strong. They’re full of love and life,” said their daughter, Donna Hildebrand of Verona.
Converts and the symphony of truth
Why do adults become Catholics? There are as many reasons for “converting” as there are converts.
Evelyn Waugh became a Catholic with, by his own admission, “little emotion but clear conviction”: this was the truth; one ought to adhere to it.
Cardinal Avery Dulles wrote that his journey into the Catholic Church began when, as an unbelieving Harvard undergraduate detached from his family’s staunch Presbyterianism, he noticed a leaf shimmering with raindrops while taking a walk along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.; such beauty could not be accidental, he thought — there must be a Creator.
Observing Lent with Mary
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Lent invites us to seek and find God. In this regard, our earthly pilgrimage continues, fixing our eyes on God.
It is our delight to take short-cuts, especially when our way is long and hard. Indeed, our way to God looks enormously long and tedious. God knew our problem and came to our rescue.
Seeking and finding
God in his infinite love created in his children a heart that longs for him. God, from his part, loved to be with us. Salvation history illustrates beautifully this mutual seeking and finding of God and his children. God was the first one to seek.
Italian dinner and auction celebrate parish’s diversity
MADISON — The annual St. James School Italian dinner and auction on Sunday, March 18, celebrate the diversity of the new Good Shepherd Parish.
Two appointed to Catholic Charities Board of Directors
MADISON — Bishop Robert C. Morlino has appointed Scott J. Seymour and Ken Thompson each to three-year terms on the Catholic Charities Board of Directors.