He is here. In a powerful moment, those three words came on screens before tens of thousands of Catholics gathered in an Indianapolis sports stadium for the opening ceremony of the National Eucharistic Revival.
A word on the Eucharistic Congress.
Despite hot and humid temperatures, the backyard of St. Boniface in Chetek was full for their Polka Mass, Dance and Picnic on July 14. Chuck Thiel and the Jolly Ramblers provided the music; volunteers worked to make it a great day, and parishioners and community members came out to support the parish.
Four years ago, Pope Francis inaugurated the “World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.” He proposed that this day would be observed each year on the Sunday closest to the July 26 celebration of Christ’s grandparents, Ss. Joachim and Anne.
Gloria Frost, a philosophy professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and a parishioner of St. Patrick, Hudson, was recently named by the Vatican Secretary of State to the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
I’m currently reading “The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness,” by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz. The book has been cited in many articles I’ve read, so I figured it was time to go back to the source.
The Fourth of July weekend brings the annual Hudson Booster Days Festival, and it had a decidedly Catholic twist.
Sixty people – including Bishop James P. Powers, clergy, seminarians and laypeople – left the Diocese of Superior by motorcoach on Wednesday, July 17, to begin their pilgrimage to the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis.
This year, St. Albert the Great in Land O’ Lakes celebrates the 75th anniversary of the church’s 1949 construction.
Five of seven Golden Rose nominees stand with SDCCW President Bridgette Adler.
