Maintenance to Mission meetings begin
Bishop James P. Powers has had a planning committee working on evangelization and parish structures since 2020.
Bishop James P. Powers has had a planning committee working on evangelization and parish structures since 2020.
The St. Croix Catholic Iconographers Guild – formed in 2014 – meets monthly at the home of the arts organization ArtReach in Stillwater, Minnesota.
There are countless persons, basilicas, churches, shrines, seminaries, convents, towns and cities named after St. Joseph. My native country, Canada, has him as its patron.
St. Mary’s of Czestochowa, Hawkins, held a Wreaths Across America program on Saturday, Dec.16.
The lack of snow on the ground has made it challenging for my family to feel that pure and fluffy holiday spirit this Advent. It’s been a bit easier for me as I can recall Decembers I lived in both Ireland and Mexico, neither of which have snow in the winter with any regularity.
Temptation -- a constant in spiritual life -- is an opportunity for Christians to remember that Jesus is close to them, supports them and lifts them up when they fall, Pope Francis said.
When Jayne Stewart was a young teenager, she had two experiences that marked her for life. While both were negative, she has used them for good not only for herself but countless others throughout her 16 years working with the St. Vincent de Paul Conference in Rice Lake.
“What is Advent?” Jodie Cosgrove asked her Catechesis of the Good Shepherd students once they’d settled in a circle in the atrium in the lower level of St. Pius X Church in Solon Springs. The elementary-age children of the clustered parishes of Solon Springs and Minong gather Sunday mornings after Mass, recreation time and snacks.
En route to the Cities in late November, I heard Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald’s version of “A Marshmallow World,” a song popularized by another of my favorite vintage voices, Dean Martin.