A Look Inside the New St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Wisconsin Dells

Colter has posted his visit, go check out the new digs!

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The one quirk is the musicians up next to the sanctuary, perhaps a loft for choir was out of the price range.  Still, a modern church done well, who'd a thunk it!

Fr. Eric Sternberg to leave UW St. Paul's

This past Sunday, April 7th, it was announced that at the end of the current semester my assignment at St. Paul University Catholic Center will come to an end and I will be transferred to a new assignment.

I came to St. Paul’s on 1 October 2008 and I anticipate formally leaving by 29 May 2013. Spending the past 5 academic years with the students and the last 1651 (as of today) days with the Staff of St. Paul University Catholic Center has been a great challenge, a great joy and a great privilege My gratitude to God for making me a priest knows no bounds.

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"How odd Moses must have looked, on his face, in front of shrubbery."

Fr. Eric Sternberg of St. Paul's University Catholic Center posted a recording of his homily from yesterday's 9 PM Mass for the Third Sunday of Lent: "On Detachment and the Holy Eucharist." (duration: 11'58")

An excerpt, which touches on the first reading (Moses and the burning bush):

Russian icon of the
Theotokos "Burning Bush"

How odd Moses must have looked, on his face, in front of shrubbery.

Eucharistic Monstrance
Our Lady of the Sign–Ark of Mercy,
St. Stanislaus Church, Chicago

How odd you and I must look, on our knees, for a "little piece of bread." It's silly! You can't get your head around it. Either we have faith in it—or you have to mock it! There's no other choice.

To have faith in it is to admit: I comprehend only a little; I sing, but not all the notes; I speak, but I don't know all the words; I feel, but not all the beatings of the heart. There is some that is left only for you, Lord, only for you.

My wife remarked, "I'm so glad that Bishop Morlino understood how important it is to post solid, intellectually meaty young priests on campus." I agree.