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House Chronicles
Choosing Thanks
by St Anthony | November 21, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 1 Comment
In the spirit of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we share this prayer written by Diane Butler Bass. She has granted blanket permission to reuse it with the only restriction that she be credited as its author. We hope that it blesses you and all those you gather with for the holiday. Deo...
Volunteer Week 2024
by St Anthony | June 27, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 2 Comments
Our annual gathering of volunteers kicked off last Thursday. Actually, this year we had some pre-kickoff help from the NCIS crew. Neighborhood Catholics in Service, a group of 22 middle-school aged youth and their 10 adult and high school-aged chaperons, came last Tuesday. NCIS has been coming to...
Earth Day
by St Anthony | April 25, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 3 Comments
Earth Day, which takes place annually on April 22, has a dual purpose. The first is to educate and bring awareness to everyone about the damage humans are causing to our common home. The second is to promote action to, at a minimum, decrease the ongoing damage, and hopefully also do something to...
It’s Nice to Be Appreciated
by St Anthony | February 1, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 2 Comments
Last week, the Board of Directors invited all of the team members - staff and residents - to an appreciation lunch. It was their way of tangibly expressing their gratitude for the efforts the team makes week in and week out to keep St. Anthony’s going. The team was not allowed to do anything -...
A Most Generous Gift
by St Anthony | January 25, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 1 Comment
St. Anthony's is humbly honored to announce that we have been selected as one of the beneficiaries of the Thomas and Marilyn Kraemer Trust. Tom and Marilyn were long-time area residents, owning and operating several funeral homes in Marathon County, including one here in Marathon. Their gift will...
Brother, It’s Cold Outside
by St Anthony | January 18, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 0 Comments
Those words have certainly crossed our minds this week, and they might have echoed through the halls of St. Anthony’s seventy years ago, based on these two Chronicle entries from mid-January 1954: Cold Weather The 12th of January was the first day this winter that the reading on the thermometer...
Mission: Impossible
by St Anthony | January 11, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 4 Comments
Those two words might describe how it feels to be our Center Director. Yet, like every episode of the TV show, Jackie Kellner somehow manages to get the mission accomplished. Although unlike the TV show, it rarely happens in under an hour. In fact, it often takes much more than her 40 hour work...
Holy Encounters
by St Anthony | January 4, 2024 | Display On Chronicles | 0 Comments
During Advent and the Christmas season, we hear many Scripture stories about holy encounters. We hear of an angel’s visit to Mary, Mary’s visit with Elizabeth, the shepherds and the wise men visiting the infant, the Holy Family meeting Simeon and Anna in the temple, and finally an angel’s visit to...
Christmas Break
by St Anthony | December 28, 2023 | Display On Chronicles | 0 Comments
‘Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. . . . Well, to be honest, there weren’t any two-legged creatures around the house for a couple of days to confirm that no four-legged creatures, or winged creatures for that matter, were stirring....
Awe and Wonder
by St Anthony | December 21, 2023 | Display On Chronicles | 0 Comments
Each year when we deck our halls for Christmas, we set up many, many nativity scenes. One goes under the tree, many more go on the window ledges in the front hall, others are scattered throughout the building, and of course this one goes outside. We have so many that some years, we don’t even get...
Reflections
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
by St Anthony | January 16, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
“Namaste - the divinity and light within merecognizes and honors the divinity and light within you.” “I see you.” “Politically correct” has been a phrase that has come into increased usage since the 1990’s to mean “disapproving of or avoiding language or behavior that any particular group of...
Contagious Kindness
by St Anthony | January 9, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 8 Comments
It was almost a decade ago that I attended a Town Hall meeting in Wausau to participate in a conversation about the suicide and mental health issues among our young people. One of the panelists at the meeting, in response to various questions about what “we” can do, repeated these words several...
Beginning Again
by St Anthony | January 2, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
Some years ago, in his book, The Joy of Being Human, Eugene Kennedy suggested that January was a strange time for beginning a new year, or beginning anything, especially in northern climates. We are surrounded by ice and snow. The weather is cold. Dusk still comes rather early. Things seem rather...
Welcome to 2025
by St Anthony | December 26, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 9 Comments
In just a few days it will be a new year, a time when many of us decide on a new path for ourselves going forward. We look at what our lives have been this past year and what we desire to add or subtract from our lives during this new year. May I suggest a joint effort this year to move...
BE Light!
by St Anthony | December 19, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
You are the world’s light—a city on a hill that cannot be hidden,glowing in the night for all to see.Don’t hide your light! Let it shine for all.Let your good deeds glow for all to seeso that they may praise and know God.Matthew 5:14;16 This is the season of light! The days grow shorter, and...
Our Lady of Silence
by St Anthony | December 12, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
OUR LADY OF SILENCE is a relatively unknown Marian icon. If you would view it you would see our Blessed Mother has her finger pressed to her closed lips depicting the importance of silence. You would see her mouth is small and closed to indicate her spirit of silence and prayer. Mary’s eyes are...
Remain Hopeful
by St Anthony | December 5, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
As I walk in the rain today, our last warm morning before the cold sets in, I lift the world up in prayer. Since the election I continue to say I did what was mine to do, but I believe that there is more! There's prayer everyday especially for those that are unkind and just plain mean. I will not...
Gifts of the Nativity
by St Anthony | November 28, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 6 Comments
Growing up, my sister and I looked forward to setting up our Nativity set with great joy! It was, and continues to be, a tangible way for me to enter into the Incarnation. At some point we decided to wait until Christmas morning to place Baby Jesus in the manger as the Magi were still making their...
Attitude of Gratitude
by St Anthony | November 21, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
On November 28th of this year the people of the United States of America will honor the holiday of Thanksgiving. This day of celebration is surrounded by legend and story going back to the 1600's in remembrance of the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. For some people this holiday has...
Getting Lost
by St Anthony | November 14, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
Helmet to keep the noggin safe: check. Long-sleeved shirt to keep the chill at bay: check. Gloves to keep the fingers warm enough to shift and shift and shift again, navigating the ups and downs and ups again of monumental glacial deposits: check. Tires properly inflated to aid in conquering the...