MADISON — The weekly Mass airing on WISC-TV on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 7 a.m. will commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of Msgr. Thomas Campion.
Monsignor Campion was the founding director of the Apostolate to the Handicapped of the Diocese of Madison in 1967. He served as the director until he died on November 12, 2010.
Msgr. Larry Bakke, the current apostolate director, will preside at the TV Mass, which will include many persons involved with the apostolate over the years.
MADISON — Leah Darrow, former America’s Next Top Model contestant, will speak to University of Wisconsin-Madison’s students Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7:15 p.m. in the Humanities Building, Room 3650. Badger Catholic invites all students and their guests to attend the speaker event, “College Through a Different Lens.”
Students will have the opportunity to learn more about Darrow’s personal experience in the modeling industry. She will share personal failures and wins in life as she stumbled out of the pop culture industry and into a faith-driven life.
JEFFERSON — Seminarians Vincent Racanelli and Phil Klaas visited the eighth graders at St. John the Baptist School in Jefferson on October 16.
The students have “adopted” Racanelli as their prayer partner and “parish son” who has embarked on the road to the priesthood.
The students in Margie Schels’ seventh and eighth grade classes have been praying for all seminarians, especially for Racanelli, since last year. He has visited the students several times to share about his vocational journey and his life as a student at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.
One Rosary, prayed once, contains 53 Hail Marys. More than 12,000 Rosaries, prayed once, contain more than a half million Hail Marys.
Dear Friends,
Of late it seems that all roads — whether in Rome or at home — lead to one place, to one theme: mercy.
Just a week or two ago, many of us in the diocese were blessed to experience the presence of the major relics of St. Maria Goretti — the Church’s youngest canonized Saint and one of our greatest examples of mercy. If you do not know her story, I highly encourage you to learn about it.
The tour of St. Maria Goretti’s remains around the United States is part of a preparation for the Year of Mercy, which Pope Francis has announced and which will begin on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception — December 8.
MADISON — Bishop Robert C. Morlino will celebrate a special Requiem Mass for deceased priests and bishops of the Diocese of Madison. November is a month when Catholics pray in a special way for the repose of the dead and, by God’s will, for the rapid entrance into heaven of the poor souls.
On Monday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Bishop O’Connor Center, Bishop Morlino, with clerical and lay ministers, will celebrate a Pontifical Requiem Mass “at the Throne” in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
MADISON — “Wow! What a 23 hours with the relic of St. Maria Goretti’s body in our parish and our church,” wrote Msgr. Michael Burke, pastor at St. Maria Goretti Parish in Madison, in his parish bulletin.
Relics of the parish’s patroness were at the parish from the morning of October 16 to the morning of October 17. More than 13,000 people from 11 states were estimated to have venerated the relics. According to the parish, there were two medically confirmed healings.
MONROE — A harvest celebration will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 3 until 8 p.m. at St. John United Church of Christ, 1724 14th St.
The public is invited to this event celebrating 25 years of the Churches Center for Land and People serving local farmers, food enthusiasts, and the local food economy.
WAUNAKEE — St. John’s Piecemakers Quilt Club will host their 15th annual “Quilting Through the Ages” quilt show on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the St. John School gym, 114 E. Third St.
More than 150 quilts will be displayed along with quilts that will be donated to local charities. There will be a silent auction and quilt sale benefitting the Waunakee Food Pantry. Luncheon items will be served by the Ashton Go-Getters 4-H club.
The Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa invite all to join them in an Opening Ritual and Vesper Service to begin the celebration of the 800th jubilee year of the Order of Preachers at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, in Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa Mound, 585 CTH Z, Hazel Green.
