PINE BLUFF — Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea of the Franciscan Friars of Our Lady of Good Success will preach at a Lenten Mission to be held from Saturday, April 2, to Thursday, April 7, at St. Mary Parish in Pine Bluff.
Category: Around the Diocese
News from around the 11 counties of the Diocese of Madison.
Retrouvaille offers help for married couples
MADISON — Is your marriage tearing you apart? Do you feel lost and alone? Find help through Retrouvaille, where husbands and wives are helped to re-discover each other.
Preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday
Divine Mercy Parish (St. Aloysius Church, Sauk City) and St. Mary Parish in Merrimac will begin a 40 day preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday on Wednesday, March 23.
Edgewood High School auction
MADISON — The 25th annual Edgewood High School (EHS) spring auction and social, “Under the Big Top,” will be on Friday, April 8, from 6 to 10:30 p.m., at the high school’s commons and Earl J. Wilke Gymnasium, 2219 Monroe St.
Prayer service for the unborn
BARABOO — Monsignor O’Reilly Council 746 Knights of Columbus in Baraboo is sponsoring a prayer service for the unborn on Thursday, March 24, (eve of the feast of the Annunciation) immediately following the 5:15 p.m. Mass at St Joseph Church, 300 2nd St., Baraboo. The public is invited to attend.
Rite of Election calls forward those seeking to ‘join the team’
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| Bishop Robert C. Morlino receives candidate Kimberly Kazort during the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at St. John the Baptist Church in Waunakee on March 13. (Catholic Herald photo/Kat Wagner) For more Rite of Election pictures click here. |
WAUNAKEE — Bishop Robert C. Morlino has often likened being a member of the Catholic Church to being on a battleship headed towards heaven. Unlike a cruise ship, the journey will be rough and will get stuck on the rock of Calvary before it gets there — but it will get a better reception when it does arrive.
Like the crew on the battleship — or the players on a team, as the bishop said at the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion March 13 at St. John the Baptist Church in Waunakee — it is important for Catholics to be unified in the fight.
Joining the team
The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion is an annual event traditionally held in the Diocese of Madison on the first Sunday of the Lenten season. It brings together the catechumens — those who are as yet unbaptized — and candidates — those baptized Christian and now seeking the Sacraments of Confirmation and the Eucharist in the Catholic Church — from parishes around the diocese. In ceremonies at their home parishes, they were sent forth to declare at the rite their intention of receiving the Sacraments of Initiation and full reception into the Church.
Tomeo to speak at ‘rEVOLution of Love’
MADISON — Nationally known journalist and speaker Teresa Tomeo is coming to St. Maria Goretti Parish in Madison for the third and final event of the “rEVOLution of Love” speaker series for teens and their parents on Sunday, April 3, at 6 p.m.
Fr. Heilman to speak about “fighting for Souls’
MADISON — On Tuesday, March 29, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Fr. Rick Heilman will speak at the Bishop O’Connor Center on the “Ancient Art of Fighting for Souls.”
Dr. Gorman speaks on new Roman Missal
LODI — Over 40 years have passed since the first translation of the Mass into English was issued. Much has changed in that time — including the ability to understand, articulate, and translate the words used during the Eucharist.
Rite of Election scheduled for March 13
The Rite of Election of Catechumens and Call to Continuing Conversion for Candidates for Full Communion in the Catholic Church will be celebrated by the parishes of the Diocese of Madison on Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m., at St. John the Baptist Church in Waunakee.