On July 1, 2023, Into the Deep, the Diocese of Madison’s multi-year, comprehensive, strategic planning process, began Phase One.
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Mass of Hope and Healing on October 29
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison will celebrate a Mass of Hope and Healing on Sunday, Oct. 29, at 1 p.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 5101 Schofield St., Monona.
Easter offers believers hope to begin again
In Connecticut, one of my older classmates took delight in asking younger seminarians what was the most important feast in the Catholic Church. If they replied Christmas, he would look at them as if he were deeply shocked.
Be friends with the saints
It’s quite a blessing that we can both read about canonized saints (or even blesseds, venerables, and so on) or read their own words.
Lent: A time to let Christ’s light shine
A painter had a bad habit of thinning paint which enabled him to submit lower bids.
Do not lose hope
We live in a difficult moment in which many people are tempted to lose hope. The ongoing challenges of the pandemic, the dissatisfaction many people feel about the direction of our country, the loss of faith in political leaders, the lack of immediate solutions to many of our problems, the erosion of our institutions, the surge of violence and crime all lead to a common, bleak outlook when we survey the human situation.
Easter brings meaning to our lives forever
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Victor Frankl, a world-famous Austrian psychiatrist, who survived a Nazi concentration camp noticed that those who survived the camp tended to have something or someone to live for!
Hence the expression, “A person with a why can live with any how!”
Christ was born to bring hope to us, to make life more meaningful in this world, and then offer us the hope of Eternity.
Approach the Triduum with childlike wonder
On my nephew’s birthday long ago, when I was sleeping over at my sister’s house, I was awakened by my wide-eyed nephew tearing through the house.
Longfellow’s Christmas poem inspires us to hope
On Christmas Day in 1864, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow listened to Christmas bells ring out the good news of peace on earth and goodwill to all.