Posts filed under Spiritual Life
Father Mazzuchelli and the New Evangelization article in the Catholic Herald
I’ve really neglected my blog, my energies are quite limited and I have been working and doing some other good things. I do want to get back to blogging. But for the record I have written an article which appears in this week’s Madison Catholic Herald. It also appears on the newspaper website at the… (read more)
Deacon Scott Jablonski on The Journey Home
Deacon Scott Jablonski’s episode of The Journey Home has finally aired on EWTN! Good job! Deacon Scott will be ordained as a priest next year.
Women are invited to study St Teresa’s The Interior Castle, at Holy Redeemer Church
God loves you! That’s the main idea of the study women will be making together, of Saint Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle, a great classic book on growth in virtue and in prayer. This will be in the library at Holy Redeemer Church (Cathedral Parish) Monday evenings starting June 9 10th. Some will want… (read more)
Sursum Corda young adult weekend at Mundelein
A member of Juventutem Michigan, an organization of young Catholics interested in the Traditional Latin Mass (which, he explained to me once via facebook, is “not the youth group of the most conservative pastor in town” but a group run by young adults, who organize Traditional Latin Masses and social gatherings at various parishes, celebrated… (read more)
Septuagesima Sunday
In the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, the green vestments are gone already and we’ve begun a liturgical season that entirely does not exist anymore in the Ordinary Form: the “pre-Lent season”, Septuagesima Sunday, Sexegesima Sunday, and Quinquagesima Sunday. It’s on this Sunday that “Alleluia” is reposed until the Feast of the Resurrection, whereas in… (read more)
Events for Men in Madison
I’m a woman. But there are several great Catholic men’s events coming up in Madison, and we all benefit when men go to faithful Catholic things like these. Fortes in Fide Men’s Retreat with Fr Z and reknowned apologist Raymond de Souza Feb 22-23, 2013 Wow. What an AMAZING retreat, right at the Bishop O’Connor… (read more)
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)
Bishop Morlino on the de-facto religious beliefs of Americans
Bishop Morlino was on a secular conservative talk radio program, the Vicki McKenna Show, yesterday. I looked up a podcast of this program. His interview starts at about 20:00. First, McKenna asks him about the “pathologically silly” belief that the world might end when the Mayan calendar ended, jettisoning their own core value system, to… (read more)
Saint John of the Cross
Today (well, by the time I’m publishing this I suppose it’s yesterday) was my favorite Saint’s feast day: Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church and companion of St Teresa of Avila in the Discalced Carmelite reform. I have to write a few words about him, though it will be more brief than… (read more)