My Sisters and Brothers, as a people of faith, on Holy Thursday we celebrated our Lord giving us the great gift of the Eucharist. On Good Friday, we walked the way of the cross with Him. At the Vigil and Easter Sunday Masses, we rejoiced in the empty tomb!
My dear brothers and sisters in the Diocese of [...]
Students at St. Francis Xavier School celebrated John 3:16 day on March 16. They made posters with the Gospel message of John 3:16 and did their best to spread that message to the Merrill community on Sales Street and 10th Street and beyond.
The St. Croix County town of Erin Prairie has one of the highest percentages of Irish-heritage Catholics around. The local parish, St. Patrick, is the center of the town, with its members lingering long after each Sunday service and many of them bringing the celebration across town to the Irish pub – social center of the neighborhood, heavy on game rooms for the children and families – that was run for decades by parishioners. It’s called Mary’s Erin Corners, and even has a softball field with a press box on wooden stilts and lots of log-built spectator seating.
Saint Francis de Sales Seminary near Milwaukee – where Diocese of Superior seminarians study – hosts a group of women twice a year to pray for vocations and receive spiritual formation.
The Diocese of Superior is currently in the second year of an ongoing process of going from maintenance to mission. Part of the call to evangelize is reaching out to the margins of the church and of society. It is in that spirit that Holy Family Parish, Woodruff, inaugurated the evening of listening and dialogue.
Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Ladysmith was the site of a March 8 traveling pilgrim icon visit and prayer service sponsored by the local Knights of Columbus Council.
First-graders from Holy Rosary, Medford, have had some amazing opportunities to serve through prayer.
It was 10 years ago, in October 2013, that Esther St. Catherine, a member of St. Joseph’s Parish in Hayward, started the first Seven Sisters Apostolate group in the Diocese of Superior.
March 15, marked the centennial since the Winter dam was closed, creating the Chippewa Flowage.
