I feel strongly that if you’re going to set your brunch on fire, Pentecost is your day. It’ll add to the liturgical celebration. So here are a few desserts you can ignite for the perfect Pentecost brunch.
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Four feasts that prepare us for a Heavenly summer
Each year in our diocese, we celebrate four of the most important feasts of the Church on four consecutive Sundays. These feasts are the Ascension, Pentecost, the Feast of the Holy Trinity, and the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
Pentecost and making disciples
This Sunday’s celebration of Pentecost marks the second anniversary of the launching of Go Make Disciples, our diocesan effort to be renewed in the power of the Holy Spirit, to deepen the understanding and practice of our own Catholic faith, and to evangelize others with a joyous confidence.
You have been clothed with power from on high
“Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
Pentecost novena to be prayed in diocese
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison is asking everyone in the Diocese of Madison to pray a novena ahead of the feast of Pentecost, which is on Sunday, June 5.
Adults Confirmed on Pentecost Sunday
MADISON — “To be confirmed is not simply a ceremony,” said Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison said to the 26 adults who were confirmed this past Pentecost Sunday, May 23.
Four feasts to prepare us for summer and forever
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A variety of moments in the Church
This past Sunday, I celebrated the final 7 p.m. Mass at St. Aloysius Church in West Allis. The parish is closing and the property is being sold, a necessary but painful decision, given the dwindling number of active parishioners, the need for many physical repairs, and the lack of resources.
Let’s be on fire for new Evangelization Initiative
Bishop Donald J. Hying is officially launching his Evangelization Initiative in the Diocese of Madison on Pentecost Sunday, celebrated on May 31 this year.
Go forth and make disciples!
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When I became a bishop back in 2011, I attended a nine-day conference in Rome for new bishops from all over the world, put on by the Vatican.
The best part of the experience was meeting the other participants, 16 other Americans, 25 from Brazil, and one bishop from Iraq whose predecessor had been murdered by terrorists. The informal conversations were often more interesting than the scheduled talks.
Dealing with declining Church
At lunch on the third day, I sat with a newly appointed bishop from a diocese in the southern Netherlands. He told me that Mass attendance there hovered at about two percent, mostly elderly people; he had no seminarians, so there was no future for the priesthood. It wasn’t so much that the Church had collapsed as that it had evaporated!
I asked him where he was going to start in such a daunting situation. How do you begin when everything seems so hopeless? What he said did not surprise me, but it has stuck with me.