SS Peter & Paul Parish and St. John the Apostle Parish at 36028 Osseo Road, Independence, WI 54747 US - Article Archive
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New Mass Times begin in July
As we continue our Easter Season, preparations are being made for the realignment of the parishes scheduled to begin in July. At that time Fr. Tim and I will be serving SS Peter and Paul, Independence, St. John the Apostle, Whitehall, and St. Ansgar, Blair. Fr. Tim will also continue to serve ...
Hollywood Theological
We are now less than a month from the most anticipated cinematic event of the summer, at least in my Catholic world . . . the opening weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I can hardly breathe even as I type the thought. Every "fanboy" fiber of my being is right now ...
Pope Benedict XVI on SS. Peter and Paul
It was through the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul that they became brothers; together they founded the new Christian Rome. As such they are praised in the hymn for Second Vespers that dates back to Paulinus of Aquileia ([c. 750-]806): "O Roma felix — fortunate Rome, ...
Pope Benedict XVI on St. John the Apostle
Let us remember an important member of the Apostolic College: John, son of Zebedee and brother of James. His typically Jewish name means: "the Lord has worked grace". He was mending his nets on the shore of Lake Tiberias when Jesus called him and his brother ...
A History of the C.C.D.
In the Church a fraternity, or specifically a confraternity or archconfraternity, is a special association of the faithful for the promotion of special works of Christian charity or piety. They are sometimes called sodalities or pious unions, however, the latter have simpler rules than confraternities though the line of demarcation is not always clear. It is unknown to most Catholics that every parish in fact has an archconfraternity within the parish. This is because it is almost always referred to by its initialism, namely the C.C.D....