Showing posts with label Lent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lent. Show all posts
So, how was your Lent?
Asks Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki in
his column in the latest issue
of Radiant Life, member magazine of policyholders of
Catholic Financial Life.
A Doctor at Calvary presentation in Wausau this Friday 12-April
A Physician’s Analysis of the Passion according to the Gospels and the Shroud of Turin
Presented by Dr. James P. Sutherland, M.D.
Friday, April 12 at 7:00 PM
St. Mary's Oratory, down in Thomas Hall
Join us during Passiontide for this informative presentation on the details of the Passion of Our Lord from the point of view of modern medical science. Many people have been led to believe in the truth of the Gospel accounts through this analysis of the details of
Our Lord’s suffering and death.
St. Mary's Oratory
Update: Stations of the Cross also at 6PM.
Milwaukee Area Parish Fish Fry Guide
It’s Lent and that means parishes across the Archdiocese of Milwaukee will be offering fish fries as we fulfill our obligation to abstain from meat on Fridays. Find out where and when the fish fries are happening in Dodge, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha counties.continue at Milwaukee Catholic Herald
Fr. Isaac Lenten advice
There is no shortage of good advice for making Lent fruitful. Every year, when Lent begins, there are articles, videos, blog posts, and so forth explaining how to prosper during Lent. It is wonderful that we have these. In our times, when secularism runs rampant, they are necessary. I want to give you a few bits of advice that come from some of the greatest experts we have.continue at Along the Way
WisSJ features St Peter's parish in Ashton: Friday fish fry fundraisers: hard work, community and cash
ASHTON — There were plenty of cooks in the kitchen Friday but not too many.
Don Marty and Marion Hellenbrand used an attachment on the front of an industrial mixer to chop cabbage for coleslaw. A few feet away, Beth Spahn and Jackie Hellenbrand stood before a pile of potatoes and wrapped each with a 9-inch-by-10-inch piece of precut aluminum foil.
Some packed coleslaw into five-and-a-half-ounce plastic cups, others worked at slicing loaves of homemade white bread and a few cut one-pound bricks of Alcam butter into quarters, placing each onto a small saucer.
At the sink, a team of six worked on the main course for the fish fry at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in the basement below the 151-year-old parish school. This is where they pried apart loins of cod before slicing the fish into three-and-half-inch long cutlets and sorting the chunks by thickness to ensure consistency at cooking time.
Bp. Morlino: Lent is a time to remember that God and Heaven should be our top priorities
The Second Reading makes clear that disobedience and death really are the very same choice.full article at MadCatHerald
Disobedience and that assertion that “I know better than God!” leads me to place God and Heaven at a lower priority in my own life. Once this happens, it becomes progressively easier to make my goal something less-than-God, something less-than-Heaven.
But God and Heaven alone are the fullness of life, and ultimately to choose what is less-than-God or -Heaven as my top priority is to choose death.
That is why we have grown so readily in the United States into a culture of death. God and Heaven have been put on the shelf by our culture and the new normal has been to make something less-than-God and -Heaven our top priority.
Our Father chanted in Aramaic
Let's remember in prayer and fasting our persecuted brethren around the world. May the beauty they preserve be a light to the world.
How to Help Syrian Christians and Other Victims of ISIS Persecution
Lenten Recollection with Fr James Kubicki Sunday February 19th
Milwaukee's St. Gregory VII Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith's
next event
is an Afternoon of Lenten Recollection with Father James Kubicki, S.J. on February 19, 2017 at Sacred Heart Church, 917 N. 49th St., Milwaukee, with Rosary at 1:45 pm followed by his presentation at 2 pm. (Later Chapter events are also listed at the link.)
P.S. The Chapter has posted its February newsletter.
JS: Abp. Listecki marks Ash Wednesday at Pius XI HS in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki presided over an Ash Wednesday Mass at Pius XI Catholic High School in Milwaukee. Students, teachers and administrators from the high school as well as students from the nearby St. Vincent Pallotti School attended.
Fox6: “Holy Week” begins with Palm Sunday service; Archbishop Listecki explains its significance
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Christians gathered in Vatican City Sunday, March 29th to join in the Palm Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ procession into Jerusalem. Crowds waved palm branches days before Jesus’ death and resurrection. In Milwaukee, Archbishop Jerome Listecki delivered a special Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist — explaining why Palm Sunday is so important.
“Today is most significant time for the liturgical year for the church,” Archbishop Listecki said.
Palm Sunday marks the start of “Holy Week” — the final days of Lent for Catholics and others.
Why Be Generous
Fr. Frank Majka, SJ posted at
The Bridge.
"... Yes, our alms and kindness are based on the fact that we are all one family. But they’re also deeply rooted in the fact that we’re created to resemble God, as Genesis tells us. ..."(via Marquette University High School)
Duluth priest offers thoughts on Confession in NCRegister
Very good. A snippet.
Most Catholics in our culture have about a second-grade level of their faith. I mean that not as an insult — that’s a description. Ask them: “What are the Ten Commandments?” The vast majority can’t name the Ten Commandments.Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-confessional-is-a-place-of-victory/#.VQJPPFtLwQY.twitter#ixzz3UHUB9Yk7
So the examination of conscience is still a second-grade exam — “Did I pull my sister’s hair or disobey my parents?” It should be: “How am I treating my co-workers? Do I tell white lies on a daily basis? Have I harbored grudges or forgiven people? How do I treat my wife?”
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Were you ever shocked by a penance a priest gave you personally?
At the time after college, in my heart I had been away from the Church and finally went to confession. It was a missionary priest. He gave me a penance of one Hail Mary. I said, “Isn’t there more than that?!”
He said to me, “There is, but I’m going to be fasting for you for the next month.” It was incredible to realize that’s what he did. It was a really powerful reality for me to know that. I didn’t realize that priests are required to do penance for the people who go to confession to them. It was striking.
Photo: Aquitaine Rose
Bp. Callahan: Firmum Est Cor Meum
continue at There Is A RiverEven though I lived for barely three years at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, my time spent there had a tremendous impact on my life. The seminarians and their positive views about the Catholic Church were stimulating and evocative. These men had a sense of enthusiasm that I had not experienced in my daily dealings with Catholic life as a parish priest. Their prayer life was intense and genuine, centered more on the reality of Jesus in the Church rather than on an idea of how to “find” Jesus in the Church. It became a subtle, yet real distinction for me, knowing Jesus rather than simply pondering an idea of Jesus. The motto of the College is emblazoned for all to see as soon as one enters the building: “Firmum est cor meum” “My heart is steadfast.”
As we enter the midway part of the season of Lent, I am drawn to the words of Psalm 57:8 “My heart is steadfast, O God; my heart is steadfast.” These words are, of course, well chosen for the heart of a seminarian eager to purposefully draw close to the Lord for sacred service; but I also find a certain sense of strength in them as we, baptized and committed Catholics, continue our Lenten journey.
We find ourselves in a time when we are literally challenged to defend our faith. Murderous, barbaric actions are presented to us as daily news events. Christians are rousted from their homes and communities, brutalized and humiliated—or worse—in cruel denial of their basic human dignity. In our own country, the laws and customs we have cherished, that have formed the basis of our self- government, are being trampled or restructured in a willful denial of divine purpose or plan.
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Bishop Morlino: "During Lent, stop whining and listen to God more"
It’s hard to believe Lent is upon us again, but here it is! And though it might not always be our first response to that reality, I wish to say first, “thanks be to God for that!”continue at MadCathHerald
Thanks be to God who in His wisdom, expressed through the Sacred Tradition of His Church, has given us this time each year to focus intensely upon our lives and specifically upon that which remains unresolved in our conversion, and to seek repentance and renewal on the way to Calvary and to the Resurrection.
Reflection leads to gratitude
The readings of last week, and the First Reading (Jb 7:1-4, 6-7) in particular, provided a starting point in my own Lenten reflection. It’s a reflection about Job and about whining, and it’s a reflection that leads to gratitude, thus: thanks be to God!
Job, as we know from his story, had been a very wealthy man. He had everything. The devil made a bet with God, that if Job lost everything, he would also lose his faith. So, Job lost everything. And in Chapter 7, we come upon Job after he lost everything. What was Job doing in that reading? He was whining. Go back and read it if you don’t remember. (Job actually whines for about 20 chapters, so it’s hard to miss.)
That reading from the Book of Job is about whining. And that is a very important thing for us, no matter our situation (we don’t have to lose everything to feel like Job sometimes).
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