Men of Christ host 20th Annual Holy Hill Golf Outing August 21

Sign up for the 20th Annual Holy Hill Saints and Sinners Golf Outing happening August 21 at Silver Spring Golf Club.  Learn more here. To register, call (262) 628-5287. 

All proceeds from the Saints and Sinners golf outing will go to repair the walk way for the Holy Hill Stations of the Cross.

Holy Hill friars "have already invited every U.S. Open contestant to attend one of several extra Masses"

Holy Hill, a castlelike Catholic basilica and shrine 3 miles from Erin Hills, is visible from 13 holes.

The 15 priests of Holy Hill, who are called friars, have already invited every U.S. Open contestant to attend one of several extra Masses scheduled to take place in their neo-Romanesque church during the event. The players can also roam the idyllic property, set on a 1,340-foot hill that was first considered a sacred site in the mid-1800s.

Asked in a recent phone interview if there was a particularly appropriate blessing for a player about to face golf's greatest crucible, one of the friars, Father Don Brick, replied, "Probably the serenity prayer."

Father Michael Berry, Holy Hill's head friar, added that he would be happy to bless golf clubs for anyone in the field.

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I looked on their website but I didn't see any schedule published, but would be awesome to see a Corpus Christi procession in the backdrop of the US Open.

Also WTMJ: Holy Hill provides picturesque backdrop for the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills

Our Lady Help of Christians, patroness of Holy Hill, ora pro nobis!

Make sure to visit The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Holy Hill!

Happy Feast of Mary, Help of Christians! Maria, Auxilium Christianorum, ora pro nobis! pic.twitter.com/v9foEWqgeh

— Br. Joseph Gannon ن (@BrJosephOCD) May 24, 2016

The Carmelite Friars of Holy Hill

photo via Johnny Manhattans

Today also marks one of four major liturgical feast to celebrate military victories

• May 24, Our Lady Help of Christians, commemorates the defeat of one of history’s greatest generals (and most wicked men), Napoleon Bonaparte. 
• August 6, The Transfiguration of Christ, was extended to the Universal Church by Pope Calixtus III to celebrate legendary Hungarian general János Hunyadi’s victory over the Turks at Belgrade in 1456. This feast has great significance for Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches.
• September 12, the Holy Name of Mary, celebrates the victory of John Sobieski and his Polish warriors over the Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
• October 7, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, The Victory of Lepanto