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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
How Do You Go About Balancing Your Life?
by St Anthony | July 25, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 5 Comments
We are immersed in a culture that values how many things we can accomplish. In our careers we are urged to accomplish as many projects as we can. In our private lives we try to accommodate the needs of family. Children need to be at practice for various sporting events and then at the events...
Re-Viewing
by St Anthony | July 18, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain appeared in 1885. This book together with its companion featuring Tom Sawyer, became standard classroom fare for generations of students. These texts continue to be referenced today though often as abridgments, not shortened in Reader’s Digest...
Drop the Rock
by St Anthony | July 11, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 1 Comment
A reflection on what weighs us down emotionally and spiritually One of the foundational strategies for dropping the rock is self-reflection. Self-reflection involves taking a candid look at one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This introspective process enables individuals to identify patterns...
Independence Day
by St Anthony | July 4, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
Yesterday the country celebrated Independence Day. Around this time of year, we hear a lot about independence, freedom, liberty, civil rights, human rights and we sing of “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Independence, freedom, can have several meanings, depending on a person’s...
Goodbye, and . . .
by St Anthony | June 27, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 9 Comments
Many of you reading this have downsized your living quarters for one reason or another. Maybe it was to cut expenses, to live a simpler life, to have more free time, or the need and desire for fewer house responsibilities and worries as you grow older. No doubt you can add additional reasons to...
The Breath of God
by St Anthony | June 20, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 13 Comments
A small, wooden flute,an empty, hollow reed,rests in her silent hand. it awaits the breathof one who creates songthrough its open form. my often-empty liferests in the hand of God;like a hollowed flute,it yearns for the melodywhich only the Breath can give. Breath…what is breath? How do we...
Juneteenth
by St Anthony | June 13, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 1 Comment
Juneteenth (June 19th) became a federal holiday by law in June 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act”. Juneteenth commemorates the end to chattel slavery in the United States which was announced in Galveston, Texas, two years after the Emancipation...
Graduation
by St Anthony | June 6, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 4 Comments
Tis the season of joyful ritual - graduation!. A season full of youthful energy celebrating a milestone achievement! Looking back at my own high school and college graduations, I remember how much excitement and determination my friends and I had for successful college and post college careers....
Angel, Second Class
by St Anthony | May 30, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 7 Comments
Some people get clear callings. Some of us seem to spend our lives waiting for one. My life followed the latter category. But the calling I was looking for was about my plans, not God’s. It took a long time until I began to listen. God’s blessing took the form of an illness, which left me...
Wondering and Pondering
by St Anthony | May 23, 2024 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
Trinity --- Mystery --- that seemingly unexplainable happening in life and beyond. I have childhood memories of my parents, parish priests, and summer classes with the School Sisters of Notre Dame trying to help me understand what/who God was all about. While the Baltimore Catechism provided...