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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
Wounded and Broken
by St Anthony | March 27, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
Every year during Lent, I have journeyed closely alongside Jesus through prayer and reflection by focusing on one of the symbols of His physical suffering. One year my Lenten contemplation was on His hands; another year, His nails; another year, His cross. With each symbol I have imagined walking...
Another Word for Different
by St Anthony | March 20, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
Spring has arrived! A time of year when we are greeted daily with the differing songs from the variety of birds in our yard. We can anticipate the budding on the tree branches, the crocus beginning to poke out of the ground, all while we inhale the smell of rain and observe the awakening life as...
Driving Myself and Others Crazy
by St Anthony | March 13, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
It is now the Christian season of Lent and with it comes the classic question of “What are you giving up for Lent?” Many have reflected on this before and even whether it is better to “give up” something (like chocolate!) or to “proactively do” something (like commit to performing one random act...
Gifts of the Desert
by St Anthony | March 6, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
I always had an image in my head of the desert as hot, dry, sandy, a wasteland almost void of life. Then last May, I made a trip to Arizona. Yes, it was hot and sandy, much different than the green fields and hills of Wisconsin. Yet I found something else I was not expecting to find. I timed the...
Peaceful Power
by St Anthony | February 27, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
Lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about my favorite Christmas song. Yes, I know that Christmas is almost two months behind us and that Lent starts next week. No, I didn’t mention my favorite Christmas song as a way of introducing a reflection on the symbolic connections between Christmas...
Signs
by St Anthony | February 20, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
If you are a fan of WPR (Music), you know about the daily (M-F) “quiz question” of the noon program. Midway through the program a question is asked and listeners try to answer correctly. A winner is chosen from all the correct answers and is awarded a prize. The categories for the question are...
Happy Valentine’s Day!
by St Anthony | February 13, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1...
The Less Traveled Road
by St Anthony | February 6, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
Have you ever wondered how you arrived at where you are in your life? How significant people have become significant to you? Why do you work where you work or do what you do for a living? How things that you value came to be so important to you? What has led you on the journey of your life? A...
Beauty in the Dark
by St Anthony | January 30, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 8 Comments
Have you noticed the days getting lighter? The sun rises a little earlier and sets a little later and we love it! It’s a visual reminder that spring is coming and with it, more light! How often do we get excited about having more darkness? I think darkness gets a bad rap. We have been told and...
How Important is Scripture in Your Life?
by St Anthony | January 23, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
With the many ways that we can follow the news, we come to realize that discerning what is true and what is not becomes a daunting challenge. We live in times when truth is often fleeting. We need some way to ground ourselves, so that we can discern what the truth is in our political life as well...