CDA meeting Monday Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court #1291 meeting will be after the 5:30 p.m. Mass Monday in Carlin Hall. This is their Memorial Mass to remember those who have passed. CCW spring salad luncheon The Holy Redeemer Council of Catholic Women will have their spring salad luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in Carlin Hall at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. Advance tickets are $12 and available at Hy-Vee and the Holy Redeemer Parish Center
Define grace, faith, works and mercy in 400 words or less! Impossible, you say? Start with the acronym: God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense — GRACE; indeed! Faith is the “doer” the implement, the tool, or the “hand” of one’s heart and mind. Faith is: capacity, engine, driver, container, arrow, shovel, mechanism, or even software. Mercy is that quality of God, borrowed, imitated and apprehended by human beings, to appropriate grace. Like faith, mercy can be measured; you can have more, less or none at all. Some have ample grace to apply mercy to others (known as ...
From the last book in the Bible, Revelation 3:20 we read, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” Warner Sallman’s classic art piece “Christ at Heart’s Door” depicts a robed, glowing Jesus rapping at the heavy wooden door … of a sinner’s heart. His fist casts a shadow, his gaze is fixed and stern and his head is tilted, listening for movement or activity inside. You’ve likely seen this painting at grandma’s house or in a dank church library somewhere in the ...
Rely on God’s Word Making decisions based on what history has taught us, was the “better way” a reader felt, responding to my thought that the best decisions are made when we live according to God’s will as written in the Bible. I agree that errors are made when people mistakenly do what they think God’s will is. We need to rely on God’s Word, not our reason. There have been times, however, when following God’s will or not was vital before history was made. When God saw that only 8 people were left who still worshipped Him, he told Noah to build an ark so that he and ...
Once upon a time there were twin brothers who had twin dogs. As farmers, they would walk to town on Sunday mornings for worship; their dogs would follow them, patiently wait for them at the edge of town and follow them back to the farm after church. One day the dogs got distracted by a furtive rabbit bursting from hedge. The bachelor farmers returned to their farms without their dogs but were not worried in the least. The townspeople were puzzled as to their disposition and wondered how they could be so calm or how they could even tell the dogs apart since the hounds were also twins. In ...
Pipestone Zone LWML Spring Rally Pipestone Zone LWML Spring Rally will be Saturday, April 22. Registration is 9 a.m. with coffee and rolls The guest speaker is Rev. Dr. Armand J Boehme on “ I Am Spiritual, But Not Religious” “Millenials and the Church” Gifts from the Heart — Personal care items for the Pipestone County Hospice. Lunch to follow program. Call Linda Wenzel at 507-220-8194 for more information if needed. Kinship Radio to ‘spring up’ six new stations Kinship Radio and its parent organization, Minn-Iowa Christian Broadcasting, recently announced the ...