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Is God your GPS?

In Your Name by Deacon Jack

In the past year a family set out to get to a place in a mountainous area using a new GPS system. While the system could tell them which roads would be the shortest, it could not tell which roads were the safest to travel in difficult conditions.

In our spiritual journey, we have a divinely inspired life direction system which tells us in advance of hazardous conditions as well as the best way to go, each and every day.

God provides us direction so we will be faithful in our everyday duties: “Be still and know” — God is working even when we question if, how, and why/what God is working.

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Sacerdotes: Elegidos por el Espíritu Santo, trabajando con Cristo

Bajo el libro del evangelio por Obispo Robert C. Morlino
Esta columna está dirigida a los fieles de la Diócesis de Madison. Cualquier circulación más amplia transgrede la intención del Obispo.

Queridos amigos:

Pese a la continua concentración en los horrendos crímenes de relativamente pocos sacerdotes dentro de la Iglesia, seguimos avanzando, un pueblo de fe, conocedor del hecho de que nuestra Iglesia está compuesta por pecadores –nuestros sacerdotes y obispos incluidos–, pero cada uno de nosotros tiene fe en que Jesucristo mismo fundó esta Iglesia, para nuestra salvación, y que Él ha enviado al Espíritu Santo para protegerla de las “puertas del infierno”.

Sin importar los pecados de sus miembros, incluso los terribles pecados de algunos de sus ministros, el Espíritu Santo sigue con la Novia de Cristo para cuidarla, para reconciliar a todos sus miembros con Cristo, y darnos la vida eterna.

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Divine Mercy Sunday in Sauk City uplifts hearts and touches souls

Bishop Robert C. Morlino celebrates the Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday at St. Aloysius Church in Sauk City with priests of the Society of Jesus Christ the Priest concelebrating. (Catholic Herald photo/Joe Ptak)

SAUK CITY — Divine Mercy Sunday was celebrated on April 11 at St. Aloysius Church in Sauk City and may be best portrayed by the results that followed.

Joyous families, couples, and individuals with uplifted hearts and bright smiles left Sauk City and drove back to their homes as far away as Milwaukee or Janesville with memories of an afternoon that had touched their souls and left them changed.

Hundreds of people poured into St. Aloysius Church to receive the benefits offered by Jesus on Divine Mercy Sunday.

Pope John Paul II declared in the Great Jubilee Year 2000 that the Sunday after Easter would from then on be known as Divine Mercy Sunday in reference to the many revelations received by St. Faustina. Jesus told St. Faustina in 1931 that the feast of Divine Mercy would be a very special day when “all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened.” Jesus promised that, “The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain the complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.”

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Earth Day invites us to respect God’s creation

Seeing with Jesus' Eyes by Fr. Donald Lange

On April 22, we celebrate Earth Day. Earth Day was founded in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. senator from Wisconsin. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans crowded streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Earth Day’s time had come.

Earth Day offers us Catholics opportunities to reflect upon statements by recent popes and bishops regarding our moral responsibility towards creation. In his address on the World Day of Peace 2010, Pope Benedict XVI focused upon the theme “If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation.”

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Pay attention to environment, rural issues

Eye on the Capitol by John Huebscher

As the public becomes more concerned over the health of our environment, Catholics and Church leadership at multiple levels have engaged environmental issues.

In recent years, Catholics in the U.S. have participated in environmental advocacy through the efforts of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, Catholic Relief Services, and other groups.

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