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House Chronicles
The Heat is On
by St Anthony | June 26, 2025 | Display On Chronicles | 1 Comment
Heat is indeed the headline for this year’s Volunteer Week. Thursday started off with a high of 80, climbing to the mid-80’s on Friday, to 90 on Saturday, and 92 on Sunday before clouds and an overnight rainstorm “cooled” the temperature on Monday down to mid-80’s again. By Tuesday when the week...
Dear Volunteers
by St Anthony | April 24, 2025 | Display On Chronicles | 1 Comment
“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.” - Anne Frank I read something the other day that got me thinking. It said that there is only one degree of difference between the temperature of ice and that of water. If you think about it, that doesn’t seem like a lot of...
Priceless!
by St Anthony | April 17, 2025 | Display On Chronicles | 0 Comments
Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. - Sherry Anderson This month is Global Volunteer Month and next week is National Volunteer Week. There is no better time to recognize and celebrate all that our awesome volunteers do and have done here at St....
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...
Reflections
Time Perception
by St Anthony | July 10, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 1 Comment
The perception of time, within myself and in the way others speak about it, is an interesting topic. We are in mid-July. Around July 4th, people may say “Oh, Fourth of July already. Summer is half over. Time to get ready for school. Fall is coming.” I find such comments humorous, an exaggeration,...
Ignorance is Willfully Looking Away
by St Anthony | July 3, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 7 Comments
The only thing worse than being blindis having sight but no vision.Helen Keller For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.I was a stranger and you invited me in.I needed clothes and you clothed me.I was sick and you looked after me.I was in...
Franciscus
by St Anthony | June 26, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
Dear Pope Francis, Easter Sunday, April 21st , is a day I will always remember. As I listened to your Easter greeting and received your Easter blessing, and as I watched you ride through St. Peter’s Square, my heart felt that you were saying goodbye to all of us. I was filled with sadness because...
Juneteenth
by St Anthony | June 19, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
What is Juneteenth? If you are like me, you may know little about the history of this federal holiday created in 2021, so let me share a brief history. We may remember from our history classes that the first enslaved African people arrived in what was to become the U S in the year 1619. Slavery...
Imago Dei
by St Anthony | June 12, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 7 Comments
The Book of Genesis (1:26) tells us we were all made in God’s image and likeness. Yet how can that be when human beings all have different shades of skin, different genders, different facial features, different abilities, different limitations? Image and likeness must refer to more than our...
In the World, Not of It
by St Anthony | June 5, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
I am fortunate to receive an issue of the Smithsonian magazine every month, courtesy of a gift subscription. (Thanks, Mom!) Each issue brings well-researched, well-written, and beautifully illustrated stories on a rich variety of topics that takes the reader on journeys around the world; into the...
Beautiful Windows
by St Anthony | May 29, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
One of my favorite books is “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury. It is the story of a summer in the lives of Douglas Spaulding and John Huff, and relates all the adventures that two 12-year-old boys can create in a small Illinois town during the 1930’s. And now that school was out they were planning...
Embracing Hardships
by St Anthony | May 22, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 3 Comments
“With the presence of great understanding and freedom in us, we can embrace hardships countless times without fear.” - Thich Nhat Hanh Around three in the morning, the massive evergreen branches, heavily laden with ice, began to fall. The ground shook with their impact. In the darkness, one could...
Habemus Papam!
by St Anthony | May 15, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
We have a Pope! Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost born in Chicago, a midwesterner. According to the Vatican News in his biography, “The first Augustinian Pope, Leo XIV is the second Roman Pontiff - after Pope Francis - from the Americas.” As I watched Pope Leo come out and...
Mother’s Day
by St Anthony | May 8, 2025 | Display On Reflections | 2 Comments
Mother's Day was originated by Anna Javis of Philadelphia on May 12, 1907 in honor of her mother. In 1914 Woodrow Wilson made Mother's Day a national holiday. The tradition has been celebrated ever since that beginning. Even though my mother died 27 years ago I often think back and celebrate those...