The 40 Days for Life mid-point vigil was held on March 7 on the sidewalk surrounding the Planned Parenthood on Orin Rd in Madison.
Day: March 9, 2021
St. Joseph Parish in Baraboo to celebrate a week of St. Joseph
BARABOO — During this Year of St. Joseph, a week dedicated to St. Joseph will be celebrated at St. Joseph Parish in Baraboo concluding with a Holy Hour on Friday, March 19, the feast day of its patron saint.
Following is the schedule for the week:
Friday, March 12 — St. Joseph Pastor Fr. Jay Poster will present and bless a statue of St. Joseph to each of the school classrooms.
Saturday, March 13, and Sunday, March 14 — Steve Angrisano, will be introducing himself as the Lenten parish mission speaker at all the Masses.A look back: Bishop O’Connor announces plans to build a seminary during golden jubilee as a priest
Ninth in a series on the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Madison
In 1949, the Pallottine Fathers opened Queen of Apostles Seminary on Madison’s east side. They made it available to diocesan seminarians.
The growth of the Diocese of Madison was reflected in an increase in vocations.
By 1962, Queen of Apostles Seminary was filled to capacity, and neighboring seminaries were overcrowded.
Lent: A time to remember who we are, what we are, and whose we are
Ash Wednesday marked the most I had seen people in church since the lockdown and since the beginning of our reopening efforts.
West Dane CCW invites women to meet
VERONA — The St. Christopher Parish Council of Catholic Women (CCW) will host the spring West Dane Vicariate meeting at St. Andrew Church, 301 N. Main St., Verona, on Tuesday, March 23, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Edgewood College commits to in-person, on-campus classes for Fall 2021
MADISON — Edgewood College has committed to a return to classes on-campus and in-person when the 2021-22 academic year gets underway.
‘How is your comfort level?’
During my previous career as a TV news producer, I had friendships with many of the on-air “talent”.
A few of them were with meteorologists (who really are good and decent people who do the best they can in spite of all the criticism they face for getting a forecast wrong).
While I don’t think the one I’m about to refer to will be reading this (although his ears might be ringing now!), I still want to mention he had a daily ritual of asking me — with an air of both irony and general concern — “How’s your comfort level?”Letter to the editor 3-11-2021
Is your cup half empty or half full?
It has often been said that we, as a people, fall into two categories: Pessimists or optimists. Some of us look upon our world and what is happening to it as pessimists and some take an optimistic view of things as they exist.
If you are of the former, you may see things about you as being like a cup that is half empty; if you are of the latter, you see things like a cup that is half full.
A pessimist is likely to see the world as going to hell in a handcart.