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House Chronicles
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...
Community
by St Anthony | December 14, 2023 | Display On Chronicles | 2 Comments
In last week’s Chronicle, I wrote about the many reasons people come to St. Anthony’s. One of the reasons was to build a deeper relationship with others, or in other words, build community. This past Saturday was a great opportunity for community building at the annual Holly Days celebration...
Reflections
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...
Phew!
by St Anthony | November 7, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
When you read this reflection it will be after the election, and if you are like me, you are happy it is over and can honestly say “Phew!” Or is it over? And the “it” is all the rancor and lack of civility and division. I would have liked to hope that the result of the election would bring about...
All Saints and All Souls
by St Anthony | October 31, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 1 Comment
Let us all rejoice in the Lord,as we celebrate the feast day in honor of all the Saints,at whose festival the Angels rejoiceand praise the Son of God.(From the Entrance Antiphon on November 1st - All Saints) Just as Jesus died and has risen again,so through Jesus God will bring with himthose who...
Holy People of God
by St Anthony | October 24, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
Do you really believe that you are part of the holy people of God? Soon we will be celebrating the Feast of All Saints. I will not be reflecting on this day as another will reflect on the coming Feast. The coming feast, however, has caused me to reflect on the question of whether I believe that I...
Conversions
by St Anthony | October 17, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 6 Comments
Conversion does not happen just once. It is a continual series of awakenings in life. Everyone gets moments when we wake up a little and our world seems clearer. If we are lucky, we begin to notice them. If we are very lucky, we find out what is behind them. I did not find God initially in the...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
by St Anthony | October 10, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 6 Comments
The purpose of Indigenous Peoples’ Day is not to erase Columbus Day from history but rather to recognize, honor, and celebrate the Native American cultures and people who have inhabited the Americas since long before European explorers arrived. They helped the Europeans survive by introducing them...
Everyone’s Saint
by St Anthony | October 2, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 7 Comments
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. As I think about him, I also consider the perception of holiness, or sanctity. Francis remains popular, even after 800 years. He is sometimes called “everyone’s saint,” who appeals not only to Catholics and other Christians, but to people of...
Creating for the Creatively Challenged
by St Anthony | September 26, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 7 Comments
Our world has been and continues to be made increasingly beautiful through the work of creative people such as artists, crafters, musicians, and writers, to name a few. I thank you for sharing your talents which nourish our spirits. But what about those of us who are, shall we say, creatively...
God, Beyond All Names
by St Anthony | September 19, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare The only things worth saying are those things that are unsayable.Mark Nepo It is our duty to transcend words and concepts to be able to encounter reality.Thich Nhat Hanh What’s in a name? There...
What the World Needs Now
by St Anthony | September 12, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 8 Comments
Most of us of a certain age know the rest of that line: “is love, sweet love”. Hal David wrote those lyrics in 1965, and it is as true now as it was then. The world’s need for love was also true when St. Luke wrote "You shall love the Lord your God . . . and your neighbor as yourself." (10:27) If...