MADISON — Vigil for Life-Madison’s 2017 40 Days for Life Kick-off event will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25, at Holy Name Heights (a.k.a. Bishop O’Connor Center).
Guest speaker will be Eric Scheidler, the executive director of the Pro-Life Action League. The league was founded in 1980 by his father, veteran pro-life leader Joe Scheidler, to fight abortion through non-violent direct action. Eric is the oldest of the seven Scheidler children.
MADISON — The Diocese of Madison’s Office of Worship is offering a number of workshops.
“Praying the Mass” is a series which will explore the Mass with Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB, former abbot primate of the Benedictine Order and an advisor to popes. Abbot Rooney will discuss some history of the Mass and reflect upon how we can pray the Mass rather than simply pray at Mass.
People are invited to attend one session or all five.
Following are summer assignments for seminarians in the Diocese of Madison:
• Stephen Brunner — St. Francis Xavier, Cross Plains, and hospital chaplain ministry
• David Drefcinski — chaplain at Boy Scout Camp, Illinois
• Jose Flores-Ugalde — Cathedral Parish, Madison
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary on May 13, 1917, to three children at Fatima, Portugal, the Rosary will be prayed at St. Mary Help of Christians Church in Glen Haven on Saturday, May 13, at 7:15 p.m.
The church is located at 8808 4th St.
Following the Rosary in the church, there will be a procession to the statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the grotto behind the church.
MADISON — The Diocese of Madison has agreed to be a host site for the 2017 New Evangelization Summit.
This exciting North American summit will take place in Ottawa, Canada, and will be live-streamed to the auditorium at the Bishop O’Connor Center on Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13.
The New Evangelization Summit will give us the opportunity to answer God’s call to renew our faith and ignite a passion in our hearts to share it with others. All the faithful are invited to attend.
MADISON — This year, Divine Mercy Sunday will be observed on April 23.
At. St. Patrick Parish in Cottage Grove, there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at 2:50 p.m., followed by praying of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3 p.m. Adoration, private Confession, and recitation of the Rosary will also take place.
At Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Confessions will be heard at 1 p.m. with Mass at 2 p.m. and Chapel and image blessing at 3 p.m.
Following are special Holy Week services being held in various places in the Diocese of Madison area.
BARABOO — Fr. Pedro Escribano will lead the Stations of the Cross at Durward’s Glen Retreat Center on Good Friday, April 14, at 3:30 p.m. Participants can meet on the chapel porch.
The outdoor stations will be used unless the weather forces use of the indoor stations at the Immaculate Conception Chapel. All are welcome.
Wisconsin is one of the worst states in our country in terms of human trafficking involving both sex and labor trafficking, speakers told over 220 persons attending the biennial Catholics at the Capitol held March 28 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in downtown Madison.
MADISON — Totus Tuus is a summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship.
Our week-long Parish Summer Catechetical Program and Summer Camps assist parents and parishes in the evangelizing and catechizing of their youth by supplementing the work they are already doing.
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