Bishop celebrates ‘wonderful, joyful privilege’ of Chrism Mass

From sitting in on religious education classes to reading and asking questions to one-on-one instruction, 16-year-old Angel Krueger’s study of the Catholic faith has been an individualized and personal pursuit.

The four-parish cluster of Rice Lake, Dobie, Birchwood and Haugen hosted a Lenten retreat on the theme of prayer over four nights March 7-10 at St. Joseph’s Church in Rice Lake.

On May 6-9, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish, Medford, will host the Vatican International Exhibition of the Eucharistic Miracles of the World.

Christie Nielsen, a middle school math and technology teacher at St. Joseph School, Rice Lake, has been named one of 100 Kohl Fellowship Recipients for 2021. 

A longtime priest of the Diocese of Superior, who also ministered in many diocesan capacities, has passed away.

Diocese goes from ‘maintenance to mission’

Gracie Quinn, a senior at UW-La Crosse and a graduate of Nativity of Our Lord School, Rhinelander, was recognized Feb. 8 in an article in the La Crosse Tribune for her work to raise awareness about homelessness.

When Jay Czerniak, a 2018 graduate of Medford High School, decided on Michigan Tech as his university of choice, spending all night chipping away at frozen snow to build an ice chapel was not among his top 10 reasons for heading to Houghton in Upper Michigan’s Keewenaw Peninsula.

“Each of us have been called by our baptism to be the hands of Jesus,” Mary Joan Sutton reminded as part of an invitation to a prayer ministry training seminar on March 20 at Our Lady of Sorrows in Ladysmith.