A bouquet
These pictures were from the grounds of the Bishop O’Connor Center last Wednesday. The flower above becomes the giant dandelion poof below.
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Corpus Christi procession with Bishop Morlino
Neighborhood flowers
Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery
For today’s Feast of St Anthony of the Desert (aka St Anthony, Abbot or St Anthony the Great), and because the primary focus of this blog is how Madison is rejoicing in Jesus Christ, I wanted to show you a really wonderful religious community in our diocese: the nuns of Valley of Our Lady Cistercian… (read more)
Snow day scenes
Happy Feast of the Holy Innocents! I was standing in front of Holy Redeemer Church during the Dec 20 “snowpocalypse” when I heard a big rumble just like a snowplow and turned to see a dramatic fall of snow from the roof of Holy Redeemer School. I didn’t quite catch the action with my camera…. (read more)
Happier than a bird with a french fry
At the young adult group “Spirit and Truth” at the Cathedral Parish, one time the icebreaker question was “what’s your pet peeve?” Monsignor Holmes’ was “when the neighbors’ chickens get in my backyard.” That’s Holy Redeemer Church over on the right. In the hippie neighbors’ backyard, their coop. I was delighted. I love chickens (alive).
Beauty Spot
Happy Feast of St Stephen! The bottom two were taken at Period Garden Park, a downtown gem. I think that’s on E Gorham Street and it’s maintained beautifully by the people who live in the neighborhood.
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming…
Happy Feast of the Nativity! From now to the end of the year I want to share each day a few of my photos taken in Madison in 2012.
Modesty: not just completely relative and culturally conditioned
With the Church’s silly season on the wane, thriving orders of Sisters and Nuns are wearing habits again. After many years of plainclothes priests who would put on a clergy shirt if they had to, recently the Vatican Secretary of State issued a letter, on directions from the Pope, reminding priests and bishops working at… (read more)
Gaudete
Gaudéte in Dómino semper: íterum díco, gaudéte: modéstia véstra nóta sit ómnibus homínibus: Dóminus prope est. Nihil sollíciti sítis: sed in ómni oratióne petitiónes véstrae innotéscant apud Déum. (introit for Gaudete Sunday: “Rejoice in the Lord always…”) The photo is the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar before Confiteor at the start of High… (read more)