Holy Rosary School, Medford, staff and students pose with a check from Catholic Financial Life.

Fifth-graders at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School, Ashland, enjoyed a presentation by Lisa Weispfenning of Washburn, who swam across the English Channel in August with three other women from Northwest Wisconsin.

Missional OCIA and the goal of Christian life

The Rite of Promise of the St. Juliana Community of the Secular Servites took place at the Servite sisters’ residence in Ladysmith, on Wednesday, March 19.

On March 8, Pastor Fr. Ron Serrao presided at the Rite of Sending for the Northern Lakes Catholic Communities, a five-parish cluster in eastern Vilas County.

Christ the King Cathedral’s organist and professor of organ at UW-Superior, Rachael Kresha, was invited to perform at Bach festivals in Madison and Saint Paul in March to celebrate the composer’s 340th birthday.

Ss. Peter and Paul Parish, Weyerhaeuser, hosted a Fat Tuesday celebration for the Rusk County Catholic Community Cluster.

Last year marked the first time the Diocese of Superior participated in “Safe Haven Sunday,” an annual effort encouraging priests and parishes to address pornography’s societal harms.

In the parish hall at St. Peter, Cameron, on the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 18, Bishop James P. Powers and members of his Diocesan Planning Committee rolled out the new Maintenance to Mission Pastoral Plan before a crowd of deacons and priests from across the diocese.

Three students from Medford won first place in the Superior Diocese’s “True Meaning of Christmas” poster contest.