Best-selling author Sherry Weddell speaks at Pastoral Leader Days. family moved to the United States when he was only oneyear-old to have corrective

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1 Apri Pease give generousy. Minnesota s Most Rura Diocese Diocese of New Um Vo. 32 No. 5 Best-seing author Sherry Wedde speaks at Pastora Leader Days by Deacon Mike McKeown WILLMAR What is your ived reationship with God? According to Cathoic author and nationa speaker Sherry Wedde, this is a question that Cathoics need to take seriousy. It s a about reationship. Sharing her vision for parish evangeization, Wedde was the featured presenter at the diocesan Pastora Leaders Days hed Feb at the Church of St. Mary in Wimar. Pastora Leader Days is a bi-annua event for cergy and ay eaders from across the diocese to gather to expore topics affecting the parishes of our diocese. Wedde is co-founder and executive director of the Catherine of Siena Institute, inside Page 2 Diocese marks one-year anniversary of financia reorganization Page 3 Distinguished Service Award recipients announced Pages 6-7 Meet the future deacons Visit us onine! which provides training for cergy, reigious, and ay eaders to be effective evangeizers and formators of ay peope. As an author, her book Forming Intentiona Discipes that came out in Juy 2012 is a best seer that has sod over 100,000 copies. Wedde is the creator of the first charism (spiritua gifts) discernment process specificay designed for Cathoics. intentiona discipeship. The majority of Cathoics, practicing or non-practicing, are in one of the earier, essentiay passive stages of spiritua deveopment, said Wedde. According to Wedde s research, those identified as intentiona discipes parishioners who have a iving reationship with God and commit themseves to active participation in the ife and worship of their parish ony comprise of about 5 percent of the membership of most Cathoic parishes. During her presentation, Wedde Nationa speaker Sherry Wedde (right), eads a discussion on parish evangeization with pastora eaders of the diocese who gathered in Wimar Feb for the bi-annua Pastora Leader Days. (photo by Msgr. Dougas Grams) outined the progressive stages of spiritua deveopment to becoming an intentiona discipe: moving from an attitude of distrust to one of initia trust, eading to spiritua curiosity, spiritua openness, spiritua seeking, and utimatey to Identifying the disparity of spiritua experience among parishioners and understanding the obstaces they face is ony part of the pastora process. A commitment to forming intentiona discipes needs to be the goa of every parish, she expained. According to Wedde, discipeship begins when peope have the opportunity to hear the procamation of the Gospe message in a compeing (Continued on page 8) Toe-paying guitarist eads AFC Lenten Parish Mission by Debra Skeey Baschko Prairie Cathoic Correspondent ORTONVILLE Be in ove with Christ. This was the message internationay known Cathoic musician, singer, songwriter, and evangeist Tony Meendez reayed to his audience during his Feb. 26 concert at St. John s Cathoic Church in Ortonvie. The concert was part of the Spirit of Life Area Faith Community Lenten Parish Mission ed by Meendez. Born without arms due to the anti-nausea drug thaidomide which his mother was given whie pregnant, Meendez pays guitar with his toes. Originay from Rivas, Nicaragua, Meendez and his famiy moved to the United States when he was ony oneyear-od to have corrective surgery on his eft foot, which was cubbed, to enabe him to wak. When he was 16, Meendez taught himsef to pay guitar with his toes. In his book, A Gift of Hope, Meendez tes how both his mother s doctor and her parents were afraid to et his mother see this new baby. But, his mother s first words were: You are a beautifu baby. God has given you so much. His mother saw her baby s future as one day growing into a man with God s dream in his heart. Meendez s oder brother and tour manager, Jose, was aso on hand for the Lenten Mission. Refecting on his The Prairie Cathoic Page 1 brother s courageous spirit even as a chid, he recaed when Tony was first earning to pay guitar with his toes. It was terribe, and we said, Mom, woud you stop him? But our mother said eave him aone, he wants to do it, Jose expained. It was this unbrided determination which payed a roe in why Meendez was invited to sing before Pope John Pau II in 1987 during his papa visit to Los Angees. Foowing that performance, the pope, visiby moved, jumped off the stage where he was seated and approached Meendez in (Continued on page 11) Tony Meendez performs during the Spirit of Life AFC Lenten Parish Mission hed Feb. 26 at St. John s in Ortonvie. Born without arms, Meendez pays the guitar with his toes. (photo by Debra Skeey Baschko)

2 by Bishop John M. LeVoir Soon, the Church wi be ceebrating the Easter Triduum: Hoy Thursday, Good Friday, Hoy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. This is the hoiest time of the year. It is a time when God is particuary active in the Church and in the word. It is a time to ceebrate our savation in Jesus Christ. In this coumn, I woud ike to focus on the first day of the Pascha Triduum, namey, Hoy Thursday, on which the Church ceebrates the Mass of the Lord s Supper. On the first Hoy Thursday, Jesus gathered with his Apostes in the upper room in Jerusaem and ceebrated with them the Last Supper. It was the fina mea that Jesus was to eat with his Apostes before he suffered and died on the cross the very next day on p The ra rie cathoic The Prairie Cathoic, the officia newspaper for the Diocese of New Um since May 1972, is pubished every six weeks, Sept.-June. Pubisher: Most Reverend John M. LeVoir Editor: Christine E. Cancy Submission deadine is the 1st of each month prior to pubication. Pubication office: Diocesan Pastora Center, th Street North, New Um, MN 56073; phone: , Emai: dnu@dnu.org Website: Postmaster: Send notice on Form 3579, The Prairie Cathoic, th Street North, New Um, MN Periodica postage paid at New Um and additiona maiing offices. USPS Good Friday. The Last Supper was the Jewish Passover mea which Jesus transformed into the first Mass. Being a Passover mea, the Last Supper has origins which go back centuries, deep into the history of the Jewish peope. More than thirteen hundred years before the birth of Jesus, God s Chosen Peope, the Israeites, had been saves in Egypt for some four hundred years and suffered greaty. But, God knew of their suffering and caed a man named Moses to ead the Israeites out of savery in Egypt and into freedom, especiay freedom to worship God and to practice their faith. Moses answered God s ca, and in God s name, he asked the king of Egypt to et the Israeites go free. However, the king refused. By rejecting God s word and his request to free the Israeites, the king brought a series of pagues upon the and and peope of Egypt. There was much suffering, and many Egyptians died from the pagues. But even after nine pagues, the king, or pharaoh, woud not aow Moses to ead the Israeite peope out of Egypt. Before the tenth pague, God asked Moses to instruct the Israeites to ki a young amb and to wipe bood from the amb Be Not Afraid The Mass of the Lord s Supper One year anniversary of financia reorganization Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Just over a year ago, on March 3, 2017, the Diocese of New Um began financia reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. We fied for reorganization because it aows the Diocese to fufi its obigation, as much as possibe, to victims and survivors of cergy sexua abuse of minors, whie continuing to carry out its ministry. Over the past year we have competed a financia discosures required by the Bankruptcy Code, sod a sma number of rea estate parces and onto the door frames of their homes. They were to roast the amb and eat a specia mea that evening. During the night, the pague struck and the firstborn in each house died, except for the houses marked with the bood of the ambs. By the bood of the amb, God protected the Israeites from the tenth pague. After this pague, Pharaoh freed the Israeites, and they eft Egypt (see Exodus 12:1-36). The Jewish peope ceebrate the event each year by praising and honoring God, and by eating the Passover mea. The mea is caed Passover because the Lord passed over the houses of the Israeites, sparing their first born from death. Many centuries after the first Passover, Jesus arrived in Jerusaem to ceebrate that Jewish feast. The crowds of peope waved pam branches and aid down their coaks on the road as a way of praising Jesus. Today we remember and ceebrate Jesus fina entry into Jerusaem on Pam Sunday, the Sunday before Easter. Severa days after his arriva in Jerusaem, Jesus and the tweve Apostes ceebrated the Passover which was transformed by Jesus into the ceebration of the Eucharist. Using the uneavened bread and engaged in extensive negotiations with insurance carriers and representatives of the victims and survivors. A parties have taken efforts to exchange the information needed to make an informed settement judgement. The caimants have continued to provide information about their caims, the diocese has continued to provide information about its finances and assets and the insurers have continued to engage in discussions about coverage. Mediation began in eary January and continues now through awyers representing the diocese, victims and survivors of cergy sexua abuse and the diocesan insurance carriers. We wi continue negotiations to try to come to a resoution. We are in the process of drafting a pan of reorganization to be fied with the federa court. The pan of reorganization must expain how the caims for creditors wi be resoved. It must the wine of the Passover mea, Jesus gave the Apostes and the Church the Hoy Eucharist as an act of ove. At the Last Supper, Jesus took the bread and changed it into his Body and he took the wine and changed it into his Bood. Jesus asked his Apostes to do the same in remembrance of him. In other words, Jesus commissioned the Apostes and through them, their successors, to ceebrate Mass and to ensure that Mass woud be ceebrated in the Church throughout the ages. In this way, Jesus instituted the sacrament of Hoy Orders. The Hoy Eucharist is not merey a symbo of the Body and Bood of Jesus. Through the words of Consecration at Mass, Jesus, acting through the priest, changes the bread and wine into his Body and Bood. It is Christ himsef, the eterna high priest of the New Covenant who, acting through the ministry of the priests, offers the Eucharistic sacrifice. And it is the same Christ, reay present under the species of bread and wine, who is the offering of the Eucharistic sacrifice (CCC 1410). When the priest says, This is my Body over the bread and This is the chaice of my Bood over the wine, the bread and wine sti appear to be bread and wine. But, in fact, the bread becomes Jesus be in good faith, feasibe, fair and equitabe. Eventuay, the judge wi hod a hearing on the pan of reorganization and determine whether it shoud be approved. If it is confirmed by the court, the diocese woud then need to fufi its obigations under the pan. After the diocese fufis its obigations, the diocese wi exit the bankruptcy process. That is a very simpified ook at the process, which has many moving parts. However, I remain hopefu for prompt resoution because I beieve a those invoved share the goa of finding a fair soution for victims and survivors of abuse as soon as we can. I again apoogize on behaf of the Diocese of New Um to a victims and survivors of cergy sexua abuse as minors. We cannot apoogize enough for what happened. We wi never be abe to undo the harm done. We must continue to acknowedge Body and the wine becomes Jesus Bood. Jesus is present and iving, whoe and entire under the appearance of both bread and wine. This change is one of the mysteries of our Cathoic faith. We wi never fuy understand it. The name for this change is transubstantiation. Jesus emphasized the importance of eating his Body and drinking his Bood when he said: He who eats my fesh and drinks my bood has eterna ife, and I wi raise him up at the ast day. For my fesh is food indeed, and my bood is drink indeed. He who eats my fesh and drinks my bood abides in me, and I in him (John 6:54-56). Partaking of the Eucharist gives us the grace to be missionary discipes of Jesus Christ. In addition, Jesus sacrifice of ove on the Cross is re-presented at Mass. This does not mean that Jesus dies again at Mass. Instead, it means that at each Mass Jesus offers to us the same redeeming ove that he showed on the Cross. The Pascha mystery of Christ is ceebrated, not repeated (CCC 1104). We accept that redeeming ove by participating fuy at each Mass we attend. In every Mass, there is an outpouring of the Hoy Spirit that makes the unique (Continued on page 3) victims and survivors stories. We must come to just resoution of caims to aid in heaing. We must continue to be vigiant in providing safe environments in ministry. Most important, we must continue to pray for the heaing of the victims and survivors. And we must pray that never again wi those entrusted with serving the peope of God betray that trust. Lent is a time of prayer, penance and conversion of heart. It s aso a time of hope. Hope that those harmed by cergy sexua abuse wi have heaing. Hope for an end to the evi of sexua abuse. Hope that our word wi someday be free from a forms of expoitation and vioence. And our utimate hope: the resurrection of the Lord. In Christ, Bishop John M. LeVoir The Prairie Cathoic Page 2

3 NEW ULM Bishop John M. LeVoir of the Diocese of New Um has seected this year s recipients of the Diocesan Distinguished Service Award. Three deserving Cathoics of the Diocese of New Um wi receive the honor this year. The award is given to individuas in recognition of outstanding service in some eadership capacity to the diocese. The awards wi be presented immediatey foowing the Bishop Lucker Lecture on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m. at the Church of St. Catherine in Redwood Fas. A reception wi foow the event. Visit for more information. This year s recipients are: Barb Dietz is being honored for her invovement with Cathoic Charities of the Diocese of New Um. Dietz served as a Cathoic Charities advisor since the formation of Cathoic Charities in the diocese in 2007 unti Her previous empoyment working with birth mothers and adoptive parents through Caritas Famiy Services/Cathoic Charities of St. Coud and as a pregnancy counseor and adoption socia worker for the Diocese of New Um ( ) aowed Dietz to give vauabe insight to the decision that the Cathoic Charities of the Diocese of New Um seek a joint adoption icense with the Archdiocese of St. Pau and Minneapois. Dietz has been empoyed by Brown Counci Famiy Services since 1992 and currenty is the Adut Socia Services Supervisor for Brown County. Her years of experience in famiy services has been extremey vauabe to the Cathoic Charities staff and advisors regarding questions pertaining to county services that were avaiabe for famiies and aduts. Barb and her husband John have been married for 36 years. They have two grown chidren and two grandchidren. They are ongtime members of the Church of St. Mary in New Um, where Barb serves as a Eucharistic minister, a iturgica vounteer, and as co-chairperson for the Service Commission for the St. Mary s Counci of Cathoic Women. In addition, Barb serves on the Hoy Cross Area Faith Community administrative counci and the parish administrative counci. Mary Gangehoff is being honored for her service as a diocesan representative on various Cathoic organizations and her work on various diocesan projects that support Cathoic education. She is aso being recognized for her many years of commitment to her parish Cathoic schoo. Gangehoff has served St. Mary Cathoic Schoo in Seepy Eye for 35 years, 22 years as a teacher and 13 years as eementary schoo principa. Since the fa of 2014, she has served on the diocesan church Three from diocese to be honored for distinguished service in diocese Easter Triduum: hoiest time of the year (Continued from page 2) mystery present (CCC 1104). The Mass becomes for us a foretaste, in the heaveny iturgy (CCC 1111). The Last Supper is important because at it, Jesus gave us the two great sacraments of the Eucharist and Hoy Orders. Moreover, in St. John s Gospe account, Jesus shows us that being his foower means being a servant, and so he washed the Apostes feet. The ceebrant at the Hoy Thursday iturgy reenacts Jesus act of service by washing the feet of others. The Eucharist, the priesthood, and the service of others are the gifts that Jesus gives us on Hoy Thursday. Finay, Jesus remains with us in the Hoy Eucharist. In most Cathoic churches, the Hosts (the Body of Jesus) remaining after Mass are paced in the tabernace: Jesus waits for us in the tabernace. We can be with him whenever we want by making a visit to church or when there are specia times for Eucharistic adoration. In the Eucharist, Jesus is with us aways. Soon, the Church wi be ceebrating the Easter Triduum: Hoy Thursday, Good Friday, Hoy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. This is the hoiest time of the year. Participate in the sacred mysteries of the Pascha Triduum. Open your hearts to the redeeming ove of Jesus Christ. Bishop LeVoir s March and Apri caendar can be found at org/caendar/. Barb Dietz Minnesota Cathoic Conference (MCC) Education Committee as a diocesan representative, currenty serving her second term. The education committee assists in advocacy efforts of the MCC that pertain to egisation as it reates to nonpubic education. From 2009 through 2012, Gangehoff served on the Minnesota Nonpubic Schoo Accreditation Association Board representing the Cathoic schoos in out-state Minnesota. On the diocesan eve, Gangehoff has been a significant contributor to the diocesan written reigious education curricuum standards, which are being pioted this academic year. St. Mary s eementary schoo in Seepy Eye, where Gangehoff is principa, is one of the eementary schoos pioting the written curricuum standards for the Diocese of New Um Office of Cathoic Schoos and Office of Reigious Education. NEW ULM On Sunday, Apri 29, Fr. Germain Rademacher wi ceebrate the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood a miestone he wi commemorate during a 9:00 a.m. Mass of Thanksgiving at the Church of St. Mary in New Um. Ceebrant wi be Bishop John. M. LeVoir. A reception wi foow Mass. Fr. Rademacher was ordained to Mary Gangehoff the priesthood for the Diocese of New Um on Feb. 23, 1958, at the Cathedra of the Hoy Trinity in New Um by Bishop Aphonse J. Schadweier. Fr. Rademacher and the ate Fr. Darod Lehman were the first seminarians to be ordained priests for the newy formed Diocese of New Um (1957). Foowing ordination, Fr. Rademacher served the parishes of the Cathedra of the Hoy Trinity, New Um, the Church of St. Gertrude, Forest City, the Church of St. Gregory, Lafayette, the Church of St. George, West Newton Township, the Church of St. Francis de Saes, Winthrop, the Church of the Visitation, Swan Lake, the Church of St. Anastasia, Hutchinson, the Church of St. Mary, New Um, The Prairie Cathoic Page 3 Deacon Steve Spiman Ceebrating 60 years of priesty ministry Fr. Germain Rademacher She has ead her facuty in providing reguar feedback to the diocesan offices. Mary and her husband Greg have been married for 35 years. They have three grown chidren and four grandchidren. They are ongtime members of the Church of St. Mary in Seepy Eye, where Mary serves as a ector, Eucharistic minister and Eucharistic adorer. In addition, Mary and her husband serve in the marriage preparation program, mentoring engaged coupes. Deacon Steve Spiman is being honored for his years of vounteer service to the Diocese of New Um. From 2015 through 2016, he served as manager of diocesan staff and since 2015 has served on the diocesan buiding committee. In 2016, he coordinated the oca Cathoic Reief Service s Heping Hands project, a corpora work of mercy effort that gathered diocesan faithfu to package meas to feed the hungry. In 2017, he served as oca coordinator of Cathoics at the Capito, an opportunity for citizens to voice their concerns with Minnesota awmakers regarding their support for the protection of ife and human dignity. Spiman was among the first cass of permanent deacons to be ordained in the diocese in As a deacon, he currenty serves the Church of St. Pau in Nicoet where he has aso served as director of reigious education for six years, co-chaired the parish festiva for four years, and since 2016 has served on the parish ife committee. Steve and his wife Buffy have been married for 47 years and have five grown chidren and three grandchidren. In 2007, he retired from 3M Corporation after 38 years of service. the Church of St. John, Morton, and the Church of St. Catherine, Redwood Fas. On the diocesan eve, he served as vice chanceor and chanceor, vicar genera, coordinator of staff, director of Priest Personne, assistant director of the Cathoic Rura Life Conference, associate judge for the Marriage Tribuna, and director of the Propagation of the Faith. In 1989, Fr. Rademacher received the Diocesan Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his devoted parish and diocesan pastora eadership, and his service as vicar genera, chanceor, and director of Priest Personne. Fr. Rademacher retired from active ministry in 2003.

4 No Tengas Miedo La misa de a cena de Señor diocesan church Primer aniversario de a reorganización financiera equitativo. por Obispo John M. LeVoir Pronto, a Igesia ceebrará e Triduo Pascua: Jueves Santo, Viernes Santo, a Vigiia Pascua y e Domingo de Pascua. Estos eventos son os más sagrado de año. Es un momento en que Dios está particuarmente presente en a Igesia y en e mundo. Es un tiempo para ceebrar nuestra savación en Jesucristo. En esta coumna, quisiera centrarme en e primer día de Triduo Pascua, es decir, e Jueves Santo, en e que a Igesia ceebra a Misa de a Cena de Señor. En e primer Jueves Santo, Jesús se reunió con sus apóstoes en e aposento ato de Jerusaén y ceebró con eos a Útima Cena. Fue a útima cena que Jesús comió con sus Apóstoes antes de sufrir y morir en a cruz a día siguiente, e Viernes Santo. La Útima Cena fue a cena de a Pascua Judía que Jesús transformó en a primera Misa. La Útima Cena tiene orígenes que se remontan hace muchos sigos. Más de mi trescientos años antes de nacimiento de Jesús, e puebo escogido por Dios, os Israeitas, habían sido escavos en Egipto durante cuatrocientos años y se vieron afectados enormemente. Pero Dios sabía de su sufrimiento y amó a un hombre amado Moisés para que sacara a os Israeitas de a escavitud en Egipto y dares a ibertad, especiamente a ibertad para adorar a Dios y practicar su fe. Moisés respondió e amado de Dios y en e nombre de Dios, e pidió a rey de Egipto que dejara sair a os Israeitas, pero, e rey se negó. A rechazar a paabra de Dios y no aceptar iberar a os Israeitas, e rey trajo una serie de diez pagas sobre e puebo de Egipto. Antes de a décima paga, Dios e pidió a Moisés que ordenara a os Israeitas que mataran un cordero joven y que impiaran a sangre de cordero en os marcos de as puertas de sus casas. Debían asar e cordero y comer una comida especia esa noche. Durante a noche, a paga atacó y e primer bebe en cada casa murió, a excepción de as casas marcadas con a sangre de os corderos. Por a sangre de cordero, Dios protegió a os Israeitas de a décima paga. Después de esta paga, e Faraón iberó a os Israeitas y eos pudieron sair de Egipto. (Ver Éxodo 12:1-36). E puebo judío ceebra e evento cada año aabando y honrando a Dios, y comiendo a cena Pascua. La cena se ama Pascua Judía porque e Señor pasó por encima de as casas de os israeitas, savando a sus primogénitos de a muerte. Muchos sigos después de a primera Pascua, Jesús egó a Jerusaén para ceebrar a Pascua que fue transformada por Jesús en a ceebración de a Eucaristía. Usando e pan sin evadura y e vino de a cena Pascua, Jesús dio a os Apóstoes y a a Igesia, a Sagrada Eucaristía como un acto de amor. En a Útima Cena, Jesús tomó e pan y o transformó en su Cuerpo, tomó e vino y o transformó en su Sangre. Jesús pidió a sus apóstoes que hicieran o mismo en memoria suya. En otras paabras, Jesús comisionó a os Apóstoes y por medio de eos, a sus sucesores, para ceebrar a Misa y para asegurar que a Misa se ceebrara en a Igesia a o argo de os sigos. De esta manera, Jesús instituyó e sacramento de Orden Sagrado. La Sagrada Eucaristía no es simpemente un símboo de Cuerpo y a Sangre de Jesús. A través de as paabras de Consagración en a Misa, Jesús, actúa a través de sacerdote, transforma e pan y e vino en su Cuerpo y Sangre. Es Cristo mismo, e eterno sumo sacerdote de a Nueva Aianza que, actuando a través de ministerio de os sacerdotes, ofrece e sacrificio Eucarístico (CCC 1410). Cuando e sacerdote dice: Este es mi Cuerpo, sobre e pan, y Este es e cáiz de mi Sangre, sobre e vino, e pan y e vino todavia parecen pan y vino. Pero, de hecho, e pan se transforma en e Cuerpo de Jesús, y e vino se transforma en a Sangre de Jesús. Jesús presente y vivo, compete y peno, ambos bajo as especies de pan y vino. E nombre de este cambio es transubstanciación. Jesús enfatizó a importancia de comer su Cuerpo y beber su Sangre a decir: Quien come mi carne y bebe mi sangre, tiene vida eterna, y yo e resucitaré en e útimo día. E que come mi carne y bebe mi sangre permanece en mí, y yo en é (Juan 6:54-56). Participar de a Eucaristía nos da a gracia de ser discípuos misioneros de Jesucristo. Además, e sacrificio de Jesús en a cruz se vueve a presentar en a Misa. Esto no significa que Jesús muera nuevamente en a Misa. Significa que en cada Misa Jesús nos ofrece e mismo amor redentor que mostró en a Cruz. Nosotros aceptamos ese amor redentor a participar penamente en cada Misa a a que asistimos. La Útima Cena es importante porque, en ea, Jesús nos dio os dos grandes sacramentos de a Eucaristía y as Sagradas Ordenes. Además, en e Evangeio de San Juan, Jesús nos muestra que ser su seguidor significa ser un siervo, por ende, e avado de pies de sus Apóstoes. En a iturgia de Jueves Santo, e sacerdote recrea e acto de servicio de Jesús de avado de pies. La Eucaristía, e sacerdocio y e servicio a os demás son dones que Jesús nos obsequia e Jueves Santo. Finamente, Jesús permanece con nosotros en a Sagrada Eucaristía. En a mayoría de as igesias catóicas, as Hostias (e Cuerpo de Jesús) que quedan después de a Misa se coocan en e tabernácuo: Jesús nos espera en e tabernácuo. Nosotros podemos estar con é cuando o deseemos a ir a a igesia o cuando hay días especiaes para una adoración eucarística. En a Eucaristía, Jesús siempre está con nosotros. Pronto, a Igesia ceebrará e Triduo Pascua: Jueves Santo, Viernes Santo, a Vigiia Pascua y e Domingo de Pascua. Estos eventos son os más sagrados de año. Participa de os misterios sagrados de Triduo Pascua. Abran sus corazones a amor redentor de Jesucristo. Estimados amigos en Cristo, Hace casi más de un año, e 3 de marzo de 2017, a Diócesis de New Um comenzó a reorganización financiera a Capítuo 11 de código de bancarrota. Esta reorganización permite que a Diócesis cumpa con sus obigaciones con sus ministerios, en a medida posibe, a as víctimas y sobrevivientes de abuso sexua de menores por parte de cero. E año pasado, se hizo todas as decaraciones financieras correspondientes exigidas por e Código de Bancarrota, se vendió un pequeño número de bienes raíces y entabamos extensas negociaciones con as compañías de seguros y os representantes de as víctimas y de os sobrevivientes. Todas as partes han hecho e esfuerzo de intercambiar a información necesaria para emitir un acuerdo fundamentada. Los demandantes han seguido proporcionando información sobre sus recamos, a diócesis continúa brindando información sobre sus finanzas, y as aseguradoras continúan en conversación sobre a cobertura. La mediación comenzó a principios de enero y hasta ahora continúa a través de abogados que representan a a diócesis, víctimas y sobrevivientes de abuso sexua por e cero y as aseguradoras diocesanas. Seguimos con as negociaciones para intentar egar a una resoución. Estamos en e proceso de redactar un pan de reorganización que se presentará ante e tribuna federa. E pan de reorganización debe expicar cómo se resoverán os recamos de os acreedores. Este pan debe ser de buena fe, factibe, justo y Eventuamente, e juez evará a cabo una audiencia sobre e pan de reorganización y determinará si debiera ser aprobado. Si e tribuna o confirma, a diócesis tendrá que cumpir sus obigaciones conforme a pan. Después que a diócesis cumpa con sus obigaciones, podrá sair de proceso de bancarrota. Tengo a esperanza de que pronto tendremos una resoución ya que todos os invoucrados comparten e objetivo de encontrar una soución justa para todas as víctimas y sobrevivientes de abuso sexua de menores por parte de cero. Una vez más en nombre de a Diócesis de New Um pido discupas a todas as víctimas y sobrevivientes de abuso sexua de menores por parte de cero. Nunca podremos dar marcha atrás de o que sucedió. Debemos seguir reconociendo os testimonios de as víctimas y sobrevivientes. Debemos egar a una resoución justa a os recamos para ayudar a a sanación. Debemos estar aerta para proporcionar un ambiente seguro en e ministerio. Pero o más importante es de continuar orando por a sanación de as víctimas y sobrevivientes. Y debemos orar para que nunca más aqueos que se es encomendó servir a puebo de Dios no traicionen esa confianza. La Cuaresma es un tiempo de oración, penitencia y conversión de corazón. También es un tiempo de esperanza. Espero que os afectados por e abuso sexua por parte de cero tengan una sanación. Espero que e ma de abuso sexua egue a su fin. Espero que agún día nuestro mundo sea ibre de toda expotación y vioencia. Y nuestra útima esperanza: La resurrección de Señor. En Cristo, Obispo John M. LeVoir The Prairie Cathoic Page 4

5 education Former St. Anastasia Cathoic grade schoo student Lindsay Whaen scores pace in Ha of Fame by Jeremy Jones Reprinted with permission from Hutchinson Leader HUTCHINSON Lindsay Whaen has won two Oympic basketba god medas, she heped the Minnesota Lynx win four WNBA championships, and she ed the Goden Gophers to their first Fina Four appearance in coege. But it a started at Hutchinson High Schoo. That s when I reay found my ove for the game, the Hutchinson graduate said Monday, Jan. 28. I got to pay with a my best friends. In recognition of those eary years, the Minnesota High Schoo Basketba Ha of Fame is incuding Whaen in its inaugura cass of 14. She wi join names such as Janet Korvonen, Kevin McHae, and coach Bob McDonad on a dispay in the skyway of the recenty renovated Target Center. I m extremey honored to be part of the group I m up there with, Whaen said. They are the names of my idos. I grew up watching Khaid E-Amin. When ooking back on her time paying for Hutchinson, Whaen recaed memories on and off the court. We had a reay good team, and we oved the bus rides and stopping for food after the games, and a those things, she said. Team bonding and team chemistry are the main parts that were fun for me. We had a great time paying together. She recas time spent at coach Andy Rostberg s summer basketba camp. The buiding bocks were a buit in high schoo in the gym there at Hutchinson High Schoo, she said. Lessons earned participating in high schoo sports weren t imited to the game. You earn time management, Whaen said. You have practice, and games, and a test coming up. It teaches you a those vaues and how to be a teammate it teaches you work ethic, and getting fitness in. And a those things are important as a young person growing up. Lindsey Whaen, a former student of St. Anastasia Eementary Schoo in Hutchinson and now twotime Oympic god medaist and Ha of Fame inductee was in Hutchinson Jan. 31, to visit students at St. Anastasia. Pictured above, Whaen taks with third and fourth grade students about her favorite memories as a student at St. Anastasia as we as her basketba and Oympic experiences. (Photos submitted) About the Ha of Fame The Minnesota High Schoo Basketba Ha of Fame was formed in 2011 by a committee of coaches, reporters, and aficionados, to recognize payers, coaches, contributors and teams that made the game specia. recas Whaen as a student. My own chidren have had the opportunity to attend her basketba camps and have used her donated equipment at Hutchinson High Schoo, said Linda Evenson, who taught Whaen at St. Anastasia Cathoic Schoo. I am so proud. The first step to achieving anything, Whaen said, is getting invoved. Evenson, a second-grade teacher, She was aways very positive, encouraging, hepfu, and weiked, she said. Lindsay woud try any activity. She iked to chaenge hersef in a she did. You are putting yoursef out there, Whaen said. There is a winner and a oser in a game, and of course everyone has their strugges and adversity. Whaen said she hopes her accompishments can serve as an exampe, as someone who wi be named to a Ha of Fame, who has been on two Oympic teams, but who didn t coect many accoades eary in her career. oir V e L n Joh 1:30 a.m. p o h is at 1 on Join Bday, Apri 2u2rch, Hutchins Sun astasia Ch t. An S No reservations needed. Come support the endowments with your free wi offering. (To) a those kids who are growing up in Hutch right now: It can be done, she said. If you have a coupe breaks go your way, and you work hard and commit yoursef and dedicate yoursef to what you are doing, you can do a ot of great things. I was a sma town kid.... You just have to work hard. When the opportunity comes to you, make sure you are ready. Whaen was in Hutchinson Wednesday morning, Jan. 31, to The Prairie Cathoic Page 5 Linda Evenson (eft), a second grade teacher at St. Anastasia Eementary Schoo in Hutchinson, poses for a photo with her former student Lindsey Wahen during Whaen s visit to the schoo during Nationa Cathoic Schoos Week (Jan. 28-Feb. 3). Aso pictured is former St. Anastasia eementary teacher, Patti Cogey. visit students at St. Anastasia. She taked about her two trips to the Oympics and her experiences with those teams in London and Rio. (The students) are very excited, Evenson said prior to Whaen s arriva in January. The oder students are more aware of who she is because a ot of them pay on our St. A s basketba teams and have had the opportunity to attend the Lynx games and watch Lindsay pay. The inaugura Ha of Fame cass comes just in time for the sport s 100th anniversary in Minnesota. Its members wi be honored Monday, March 26, with a reception from 4-6:00 p.m. at The Courts at Mayo Cinic Center, second foor Experience Center. It s pretty unbeievabe to be in a cass with those peope, Whaen said. I am gratefu for that.

6 specia report Bruce Bot Age: 55 Spouse: Juanita Chidren: Amanda, Chares (wife-mariah), Emiy, Lee, and Joshua Home Parish: St. Edward, Minneota Occupation: Farmer Hobbies: Hunting, paying cards, and reading Bruce and Juanita Bot Past and present Church and/or parish invovement: Fourth Degree Knights of Coumbus, Grand Knight and Faithfu Navigator, parish finance counci, ector, extraordinary minister of Communion, Communion to homebound, choir member, RCIA, reigious education teacher, various committees. Caed to serve Six men to be ordained deacons Who are deacons? Whie a members of the church are caed to minister to others by virtue of their baptism, some Cathoics are aso ordained to specific forms of ministry to serve the rest of the Church. A Cathoic deacon is a member of the cergy. In the Cathoic Church, the cergy consists of three groups of ordained ministers: bishops, priests, and deacons. Deacons are neither aymen nor priests. Nor are they a esser version of the priesthood. The diaconate is a unique vocation unto itsef. In the United States, What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? The diaconate formation has been a wonderfu earning experience for Juanita and me and through a the casses and discussion, we have grown to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of our God and his Church. A the candidates agree that even if something happened and we were not ordained we woud sti fee the ast five years were we spent. Travis Wesh Age: 39 Spouse: Jessica Chidren: Teagan, Tyer, baby due Apri 21 Home Parish: St. Eoi, Ghent Occupation: Wastewater treatment operator Hobbies: Camping, watching hockey, footba, and baseba, woodworking, motorcycing, hunting Travis and Jessica Wesh Past and present Church and/or parish invovement: Lector, extraordinary minister of Communion in the parish and to the homebound, Fourth Degree Knights of Coumbus, Confirmation teacher, marriage preparation, RCIA, Teen Tak. Te us something about your ca to become a deacon: I was on an Emmaus Retreat and fet God caing me to do something more for him. I tod God I gave him my ife to use for whatever he needed, but he woud have to show me because I had no idea what he wanted from me. After that, God showed me through a number of ways that he wanted me to become a deacon for him. What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? Growing in knowedge of my faith that I woud not have had the opportunity to do if it was not in formation. My persona reationship with God has bossomed in a way I never thought was possibe. The Prairie Cathoic Event: Time: Date: Pace: NEW ULM Six years have passed since Bishop John M. LeVoir ordained the first cass of permanent deacons in the Diocese of New Um. On Saturday, Apri 21, six more men wi be ordained to the Order of Deacons at the Church of St. Mary in Seepy Eye. Te us something about your ca to become a deacon. I first thought about becoming a deacon candidate when the first group started up around 2006 or so, but decided against it because of how busy we were with the kids and their activities. When the second group was going to start up, a coupe peope asked me if I had ever considered it. After praying and thinking about it for a whie, I brought it up to my wife Juanita, and even though she had some vaid concerns and reservations, she didn t say no. One of the biggest concerns was with crops and ivestock (farrow to finish hog operation), how were we going to be abe to take off one weekend every month for five years, especiay during panting and harvest. One other concern I had was that I was not hoy enough to be a deacon. After praying and refecting (trying to tak mysef out of it) I sti fet that God was asking me to do this, so Juanita and I decided that we woud try it and if it was God s wi it woud work out. Looking back on amost five years of cass, I sti fee that God is caing me to the diaconate. Not once in those five years did God fai to provide someone to cover for me when I had to be gone for the weekend. There were times when it was hectic and stressfu but somehow it worked. I don t know exacty what God has in store for me in the future, but I now reaize that God takes us as we are in a our imperfections and sins, and if we trust him, wi show us how we can best serve him and his Church. Ryan Pope The word deacon comes from the Greek word diakonos, meaning servant or heper. Six men wi be ordained permanent deacons for the Diocese of New Um. Deacons are ordained to be a sacramenta sign of Christ s service to the Church and to the word. They are given the responsibiity of procaiming the Word, serving at the atar, and ministering works of charity. deacons in the Cathoic Church are required to be at east thirty-five years od. A vocation of service A Cathoic deacon ives a ife of service that integrates famiy ife, the workpace, the community, and ministry. His ife of service is generay rooted within his parish and extends in outreach to the community and those on the margins. His Anthony (Tony) Grack Age: 60 Spouse: Janice Chidren: Kris, Katie, Lisa, Nicoe, Stephanie Home Parish: Hoy Redeemer, Marsha Occupation: Consutant Hobbies: Hunting and gof Age: 36 Spouse: Mary Chidren: Cody Vacek and Kyie Grack Home Parish: St. Peter, St. Peter Occupation: Production Manager at EI Microcircuits in Mankato Hobbies: Gof, hiking, biking - most outdoor activities Te us something about your ca to become a deacon. My parish pastor, Fr. Pau Wof, sent out an emai to a handfu of men asking if there was interest. I deeted it because I fet it was not for me. However, something kept tugging at my heart to consider the caing. I tried to ignore God s voice. Eventuay, I taked with my wife, Jan, and we prayed about it. After meeting with Deacon Mark Kober, director of the Office of the Diaconate and with Bishop LeVoir, we fet God was caing us to pursue this ministry. It has been a great journey. What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? The extremey knowedgeabe instructors that presented at the diaconate formation weekends, which ed me to recognizing how much I did not know about my Cathoic faith. The earning has been tremendous. Yet I know that I must continue to grow in my knowedge and I am committed to doing so. Being abe to share the experience with my wife was aso significant part of my formation. threefod ministry incudes: service of the Word, service of Liturgy, and service of Charity. As ministers of the Word, deacons may procaim the gospe, preach, and teach in the name of the Church. As ministers of the Liturgy, deacons may baptize, ead prayer, witness marriages, and conduct wakes or funeras. Finay, as ministers of Charity, deacons ead in identifying the needs of others and using the Church s Kenneth (Ken) Noyes Past and present church and/or parish invovement: Trustee, ector, extraordinary minister of Communion to the homebound, RCIA (eader/sponsor/representative at the Rite of Eection for RCIA candidates), parish counci, finance counci, eadership Kenneth and Jan Noyes roe on parish buiding committee and fundraising, Knights of Coumbus, eadership in campaign to upgrade Campus Reigious Center at SMSU, education buiding committee, TMIY (That Man is You) men s program sma group eader, Confirmation sponsor, faith formation instructor, marriage preparation mentor. Page 6 Deacon ordination 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Apri 21 Church of St. Mary, Seepy Eye Past and present church and/or parish invovement: Core member on LifeTeen (9-12 grade) and the MC for Roots (5-6 grade), Cathoic Watchmen, RCIA, men s bibe study, extraordinary minister of Communion, ector. Age: 39 Spouse: Erica Chidren: Noah, Cadence, Theodore Teddy, Aria, Joseph (deceased 2017), baby due in Juy Home Parish: St. Catherine, Redwood Fas Occupation: Physica therapist Hobbies: Computers, auto maintenance/handyman work, archery/gun range practice resources to meet those needs. This might incude hospita or prison ministry, serving at a food bank, or a host of other parish or diocesan ministries. Formation process of a deacon The Diocese of New Um has a five-year formation program. The first year is caed aspirancy, a time when the Church and the deacon candidate evauate whether he is caed to this ministry. At the end of aspirancy, if it has been determined that the candidate shoud continue formation, he wi enter a four-year program. Each year consists of 10 weekend gatherings and one, three-day retreat in the summer. Past and present Church and/or parish invovement: Parish evangeization and catechesis committee, catechist for the reigious education program, extraordinary minister of Communion, which aso incudes heping with hospita visiting and homebound visiting ministries, cantor, ector. Ryan and Erica Pope Te us something about your ca to become a deacon. As a convert to Cathoicism, my formation and ministries in other Christian traditions served as a aunch point for formation in the Cathoic Church. As I earned and engaged more within the ife and ministries of the Church and the parish, I heard about the order of deacons. The ministry of service resonated we with me as a heathcare worker, husband, and father. Eary in considering the diaconate, I had a great conversation with a deacon who shared his passion for the ministry, and through discernment with my wife, I chose to appy to be a deacon. How do I find out more about discerning a ca to the diaconate? The best pace to start is with your parish pastor, who can put you in touch with Deacon Mark Kober, the director of the Permanent Diaconate Formation Program for the Diocese of New Um. Deacon Kober wi be abe to outine the various requirements and processes to be foowed. Further information is aso avaiabe on the diocesan website, What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? During homietics formation week at the Abbey of the His Retreat Center in South Dakota, we were given a specific topic and Sunday readings from which to formuate a homiy to present to our peers and instructors for critique. One topic was abortion and Respect Life Sunday. However, this formation week took pace about a month after the in utero oss of our son Joseph at about 20-weeks gestation. With the grief weighing heaviy on me, I began to research statistics on abortions in Minnesota. I engaged in Lectio Divina (scriptura reading, meditation, and prayer) to hep formuate my homiy. But the words didn t seem to come. So I decided to take a wak around the grounds of the Abbey and was drawn to their new outdoor shrine for Our Lady. As I was kneeing there in sience, a profound peace came over me. It was ike permission from Our Lady hersef to fee my grief and sorrow, to ay down my anger and frustration, to acknowedge my raw emotions instead of being strong. What foowed that encounter was a reaization and understanding that it was not my homiy to be written. Sure, it may have been my words and it may have been my ife s experiences and that of those around me, but the homiy did not come together we unti it was with Christ through the intercession of Our Lady. This was one of severa significant moments in these years of diaconate formation. Barry Reind Age: 58 Spouse: Karen Chidren: Jessica, Jenny, Jackie, Juieann, TJ, Christina, Andrew Home Parish: St. Raphae, Springfied Occupation: Eectrician Hobbies: Sma home repair Anthony and Mary Grack Te us something about your ca to become a deacon. I fet God was caing me to do something, but I didn t know what. I reay didn t know much about the diaconate so when I heard about it I decided to check it out. Shorty after that, I was convinced the diaconate was not for me. It turns out I was wrong. A few years ater God began putting signs in my ife that pointed me back to the diaconate. After much prayer and discussion with my wife, we decided to appy for the program. At this time, I was ony moderatey sure this was the right direction. However, throughout the discernment process during formation it has become cear to me that God is caing me to the diaconate and I am very happy to serve his Church in this way. Past and present Church and/or parish invovement: Liturgy committee, maintenance committee, extraordinary minister of Communion, vounteer for Cathoic Heart Youth Work Camp mission trips. Te us something about your ca to become Barry and Karen Reind a deacon. I enjoy heping out in the parish and schoo, but there aways seemed to be something missing in my ay ministry, which caused me to pursue the diaconate. What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? Whie a the studying and earning more about our faith has been great, the most infuentia part of formation has been the growth I have experienced in my spiritua ife. Through the hep of spiritua direction, my prayer ife has improved tremendousy which naturay eads to a stronger reationship with God. I have aso experienced great spiritua growth through the annua retreats with the current deacons and their wives. The Prairie Cathoic What was the most significant or memorabe part of your diaconate formation? The most memorabe part is a the reading and papers we were asked to write. Through the years of formation, we earned a ot about the Church and her teachings. My wife and I wi miss the strong community that was buit during formation. Page 7

7 Cathoic ife Lenten journey prepares us for an encounter with the infinite compassion and mercy of God by Fr. Tony Stubeda I admire our young athetes dedication to their sports and our young musicians passion for their music. They wi spend hours and hours practicing, perfecting and honing their skis. They wi go to schoo a day, practice every evening and dedicate their free time to their training. They wi trave ong distances to compete, arrive home in the midde of the night, do their homework and begin a over again in the morning. Their parents are just as dedicated. They support their chidren, pay fees, trave to competitions after ong days at work and bear the cost and the tiredness the next day. I sedom hear our young peope compain about their impossiby busy schedues or about the demands of these activities. They see the goa they are trying to reach and are ready to do the hard work to get where they want to be. The discipine and sacrifice of so many students and their parents seem to rest on understanding the goa they have in mind. It might be good for us to remember the same thing about our pigrimage through Lent. The penitentia way. From there, they renew their own baptism, consciousy committing themseves to Christ as their Lord and Savior. This eads to fuer participation in the ife of their parish. The roe of charisms Wedde said that another key component to inviting peope into a ife of discipeship is the recognition that a of us have been given charisms to hep buid up the Church. A charism is a gift or grace given to a of us in our baptism and confirmation. Charisms are not merey taents or skis, but supernaturay empowered ways that God works through us to reach others. According to Wedde, whie charisms are more easiy identified in mature discipes, heping someone discern their charisms can be an effective starting point in evangeizing peope. Heping individuas to identify their particuar charisms discipines recommended to us by the Church prayer, fasting, and amsgiving are ony sustainabe if we remember what it is we are trying to accompish, and where we are trying to go. If we do not remember that our Lenten journey is meant to prepare us for an encounter with the infinite compassion and mercy of God, and then, freed from our sins by God s saving grace, to enter into the mysteries of the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord, we are prone to wearing out aong the way. Our pigrimage is not a way for us to discover how bad we are, but to discover how good and gracious our God is. Our Lenten discipine is not a sef-improvement pan, but a process of opening our ives to the renewing and transforming power of Christ. We journey into the vast compassion of God and discover his pan for our ives, his vision of what we can be through his mercy. Our pigrimage through Lent is meant to renew, refresh, and transform our ives and the word. In this context, the discipine of prayer becomes a competey open conversation between God and our very being. Strengthened and providing an environment where these charisms can be used, often eads peope to see how God may be caing them into a deeper reationship as his discipe. The roe of pastors and pastora eaders Wedde sees the parish as the best pace to discern and use our spiritua gifts. This means that pastors need to be abe to hep discern and govern the use of these gifts for the good of both the individua and the parish community. Wedde pointed out that many pastors are not famiiar with how to hep peope discern their charisms. In order to hep pastors and parish eaders in this process, the Catherine of Sienna Institute has deveoped the Caed and Gifted discernment process which begins with understanding of how the charisms work in the ife of the Church and some of the most common charisms. by the vision of God s mercy offered to us through Jesus we can revea ourseves without shame, embarrassment or fear to the God who wishes to hea, comfort, forgive and renew us. Our prayer can become a fountain of heaing and forgiveness that invites us to abandon ourseves, our desires, our hopes and our dreams into the hands and heart of Jesus. It draws us to the Sacrament of Reconciiation not as a duty or obigation, but as a onged for encounter with Jesus, the face of God s mercy. Our Lenten fasting is transformed by this approach from a diet into an encounter with the emptiness of our ives without God. Our refraining from eating is often fet as emptiness inside and a onging to fi ourseves. If we remain true to our fast we soon discover the spiritua emptiness that ongs to be fied with the presence of God. We can begin to recognize that passing peasures can mask a deep desire to be fied with hoiness. The peasures and conveniences of ife that we renounce during this time ead us to seek the true happiness of receiving the Lord, and the rea satisfaction of being When pastora eaders have a proper understanding of the roe of charisms, the next step is to hep individuas recognize patterns in their ife that may indicate the presence of a charism. Once these patterns are identified, individuas in the Caed and Gifted discernment process are encouraged to begin to use their charism for the buiding up of their parish under the direction of their pastor. By foowing these steps, parishioners wi often begin to discern persona vocations, become active in evangeization, and bear positive fruit for the parish ife in a variety of ways. Wedde s presentation ed to many fruitfu discussions among those who attended Pastora Leader Days. Bishop John LeVoir found the information both encouraging and chaenging. We are committed to evangeization in our parishes, fed by his presence that fis us and cams our restess spirits. Our hearts and minds that so often cast about ooking for something to make us happy wi encounter true happiness and rest once they turn to the Lord. The emptiness of passing things can be repaced by the funess of God s mercy and ove. Amsgiving is a ca to remember God s abundant bessings in a society that often cries out that we do not have enough. In a cuture driven by consumption there is aways something, new, better, and more attractive just beyond our reach. We watch and isten to commercias for things that we cannot afford, and we can be convinced by a reentess process of promotion that we do not have enough of anything. The process of giving reminds us that we have been abundanty bessed, and that we can participate in the reveation of the goodness of God to others through our own sharing of what God has given to us. he said. Recognizing and encouraging peope to use their gifts to strengthen the ife of the Church and to share with others the beauty of our Cathoic faith is critica to the New Evangeization. Bishop LeVoir has asked members of his pastora staff to ook at ways that Caed and Gifted might be used as a resource for the parishes of our diocese. The Prairie Cathoic Page 8 We are invited to see that God has been good and gracious and mercifu. We are caed to abandon a word centered on ourseves and to enter into a word dependent on the abundant generosity of God s mercy and compassion. At the end of our Lenten journey God wi have prepared us to enter into the Pascha Mystery. Armed by forgiveness, compassion, and a new and renewed vision, we wi be invited to accompany the Lord through his suffering and death to his resurrection. If we remember where we are headed, God wi faithfuy guide us. We sha not be ost or discouraged, but wi be hed in the compassionate embrace of God unti we arrive at our destination. Fr. Tony Stubeda serves as pastor of the Church of the Hoy Trinity in Winsted, the Church of St. Pius X in Gencoe, and the Church of the Hoy Famiy in Siver Lake. Wedde: A of us have been given charisms to hep buid up the Church (Continued from page 1) Forming intentiona discipes invoves the focus and commitment of the whoe parish. If ife at the parish eve changes, Wedde said, the ife of the whoe Church wi change. Editor s note: Deacon Mike McKeown oversees Adut Faith Formation for the Diocese of New Um. Listen weeky to Bishop John LeVoir s Lenten and Easter Messages -

8 Cathoic ife Convention speakers to focus on faith, prayer, and God s many bessings by Ronda Mathiowetz NUDCCW President I am ooking forward to the 59th annua New Um Diocesan Counci of Cathoic Women (NUDCCW) Convention that wi be hed on Saturday, Apri 28, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Church of St. Catherine in Redwood Fas. This year s theme is, Beieve in me and do my works (John 14:12). Being a mother of a specia needs daughter, I am ooking forward to the message that wi be shared by Nancy Jo Suivan, the convention s morning keynote. Suivan s odest daughter Sarah was born with Down syndrome, a genetic chromosome disorder causing deveopmenta and inteectua deays. During her twenty-three years on earth, Sarah imparted essons of faith that continue to impact her famiy s ife. An inspirationa author and speaker, Suivan has worked with both Cathoic and Evangeica pubishers and her by Jan Noyes DCCW Leadership Commission As chidren, everything we do in ife comes with a coach, a teacher, or a parent directing us and heping us aong the way. Words of encouragement are often times pentifu, and we a seem to benefit from someone ooking out for our we-being. As aduts, this reationship is much more difficut to estabish. Woudn t it be nice to have someone assisting and heping you find satisfaction in ife and your faith? Woudn t it be nice to have a mentor? Recognizing that mentoring can be both an important too in the deveopment of councis and a powerfu outpouring of support and care for individua members, the Nationa Counci of Cathoic Women put forth a resoution on mentoring at the 2017 annua convention. Mentorship is a reationship in which a more experienced or more knowedgeabe writings are appicabe to a denominations. Suivan speaks reguary at Christian conferences and retreats, and serves as a presenter at grief coaitions throughout the Minneapois area. The afternoon keynote wi be Mary Kay Stebbins speaking on Are Cathoics Christian? Stebbins is the founder of Look for the Bessings ministry. With a passion for praying with and encouraging others in knowing just how big God is, she has ed retreats such as Youth Encounter Christ and Coege Encounter with Christ. The NUDCCW convention serves as a great opportunity to be spirituay enriched, connect with other women, and grow in faith. To register, contact your parish CCW president by Apri 10 to receive the discount price of $30. A registrations postmarked after Apri 10 wi be $35. Schoarships are avaiabe through the NUDCCW Schoarship Program. Contact your parish CCW parish president for more information. person heps or advises a ess experienced person. It is a earning and deveopment partnership between someone with vast experience and knowedge and someone who wants to earn. By mentoring other Cathoic women, we are insuring the future of the Counci of Cathoic Women organization. A mentor can make the difference in whether a new member remains an active member of the Counci of Cathoic Women, or over time chooses not to remain invoved. Through mentoring, counci members wi earn the structure of the Counci of Cathoic Women, the responsibiities of the various commissions and committees, and participate more with the activities the counci has to offer. The use of mentors can contribute to greater membership retention. Mentoring can aow for individuas to recognize their potentia contributions to the Convention Agenda 7:30 a.m. Registration/ Continenta Breakfast/Sient Auction 8:30 a.m. Genera Assemby 9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote, Nancy Jo Suivan 10:00 a.m. Business Meeting/ Woman of the Year 10:45 a.m. Mass - Bishop John LeVoir, ceebrant 12:15 Lunch 1:30 p.m. Afteroon Keynote, Mary Kay Stebbins 2:30 p.m. Cosing Prayer 3:00 p.m. Drawings Mentorship in Counci of Cathoic Women is key to sustaining member invovement Counci of Cathoic Women, engage members in participating more fuy in the counci programs and activities, and enhance the organization with their taents, gifts, and ideas. To earn more about the NCCW s Mentoring Women Embracing Women program, visit org - Commission/Committee- Leadership tab. Come pray with Bishop John M. LeVoir Divine Mercy Sunday Apri 8, 2018 Church of the Hoy Famiy Siver Lake 2 p.m. Exposition of the Bessed Sacrament 3 p.m. Singing of the Divine Mercy Chapet Reconciiation avaiabe from 2-3:45 p.m. Crossing the threshod to hoy and heaveny reaities by Fr. Aaron Johanneck Editor s note: Each month through this coumn, Fr. Johanneck wi continue to focus on some aspect of the Church s iturgy to aid readers to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the iturgy, as we as their fu, conscious, and active participation. For previous coumns, visit the Diocese of New Um website, (Worship office). In the ast artice we began to answer the question, What exacty is a church? A church is much more than an event ha in which any activity can take pace. It is even more than simpy a pace where Christians gather. A church is a buiding dedicated and set aside for worship and prayer, and a buiding with great meaning. The Catechism of the Cathoic Church teaches that when we enter a church we cross a threshod (cf. CCC 1186). It shoud be cear that we are entering a pace unike any other. Think about the beautifu churches that perhaps you have visited; churches that truy struck you in some way as you entered, or even as you approached them. There are some churches that evoke in us true wonder and awe. We marve at the craftsmanship, the artistry, the sacrifices made by the faithfu for such a structure to be buit and furnished, and at the overa effect the buiding has on us. We note how these churches move us to prayer, how they ift our spirits, and how they give gory to God. Many wi comment on how they have fet transported as they entered a truy beautifu church. They fet as if they had eft the mundane and wordy, and entered a pace that is truy hoy and sacred. This is an appropriate experience. It is one that we shoud desire to evoke in the design of new churches or in the renovation of existing ones. The Catechism states, the threshod we cross as we enter a church symboizes passing from the word wounded by sin to the word of the new Life to which a men are caed (CCC 1186). As we pass through the doors of a beautifu church Sursum Corda Lift Up Your Hearts Refections on the Sacred Liturgy we can have an experience of crossing the border from the faen word affected by sin, evi, and disorder to the word redeemed by Christ and reconcied to the Father. When we enter a church we symboicay pass from earth to heaven. As the Catechism expains, Our visibe churches, hoy paces, are images of the hoy city, the heaveny Jerusaem, toward which we are making our way on pigrimage (CCC 1198). The Book of Reveation describes the heaveny Jerusaem as buit of jasper and pure god. The foundations of the city are adorned with every kind of jewe, and the gates are pears (cf. Reveation 21:18-21). Thus churches are adorned with precious materias, stained gass, beautifu furnishings, and decorative paint schemes to manifest the beauty of heaven. The church buiding represents the Church, the Mystica Body of Christ. This is why the same word is used for both reaities. The ceaniness, order, and beauty of a church images the purity, order, and beauty of the sous of those redeemed by the Bood of Christ and made hoy through prayer and the sacraments. It represents the state of sou that we must strive to attain as baptized Christians. St. Augustine writes, The work we see compete in this buiding is physica; it shoud find its spiritua counterpart in your hearts.we see here the finished product of stone and wood; so too your ives shoud revea the handiwork of God s grace (aternate Second Reading, Office of Readings for the Dedication of a Church). In this way, a worthy and beautifu church issues a chaenge to us to cross a threshod in our own ives, passing from the uginess of sin and sefishness to the beauty of sacrificia, sefess ove in a sou transformed by the grace of God. Editor s note: Fr. Aaron Johanneck is director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of New Um. The Prairie Cathoic Page 9

9 socia concerns The inseparabe ink: pornography and human trafficking Faith in the Pubic Arena by Shawn Peterson Every second, peope spend $3, on pornography; every second, 28,258 peope view it onine; every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is made in the United States; and every day approximatey 11 miion teens access some form of pornography. No matter where or how it is accessed, Americans views support a $13 biion industry. Consuming pornography is often considered a victimess act with no consequences other than to the consumer. But that is wrong. The connections between pornography and sex trafficking are often negected, or even dismissed. Even more importanty, too few reaize pornography itsef is a form of sex trafficking. The insidious infuence of pornography changes peope into objects; making it easier to dehumanize and ack empathy for other human suffering. This pornography-induced mass desensitization to the suffering of others is akin to an infection of our society. To fight this infection, we need to purify our hearts, as we as take steps in the pubic arena to hep peope understand the socia disease of pornography and its effects. The socia dimension of sin The Church reminds us pornography is not simpy a private matter that impacts ony the viewer. Pornography harms others, too. The Catechism of the Cathoic Church (2354) states: Pornography. does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the pubic), since each one becomes an object of base peasure and iicit profit for others. It immerses a who are invoved in the iusion of a fantasy word. It is a grave offense. Civi authorities shoud prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materias. What peope often miss is that pornography is sex trafficking with the camera turned on. It perpetuates sex trafficking through its creation of debauched fantasy words that need to be experienced firsthand and with persons who can be discarded when the act is compete. According to a report by Shared Hope Internationa, an organization that exists to prevent sex trafficking, pornography is the primary gateway to purchasing humans for commercia sex. A survey of 854 women in prostitution in nine different countries makes it cear pornography is inextricaby inked to prostitution. In each surveyed country, amost haf of the respondents said traffickers forced them to make pornography whie ensaved. By choosing to consume porn, we vote with our waet to support the continuation of these offenses against human dignity. It is impossibe to consider pornography a private affair; it is directy inked to the systematic commodification of human persons, who are victims of both the pornography and sex trafficking industries. Anti-pornography must be the new anti-smoking campaign In the past few decades, powerfu socia movements have promoted pubic heath and we-being. Campaigns to ban smoking in pubic paces or to promote recycing each sought to connect our individua choices with how our choices coud harm others or the panet. We must raise the fight against pornography to this eve of consciousness. The consequences of its use the faied marriages and broken famiies, the vioence against women and chidren, the desensitization to vioence and suffering are too great to ignore. Purifying our hearts and homes is the first step, for our cuture needs witnesses, not just teachers. As the U.S. Bishops say in their pastora etter, Create in Me a Cean Heart, [t]he Church as a fied hospita is caed to procaim the truth of the human person in ove, to protect peope especiay chidren from pornography, and to provide the Lord s mercy and heaing for those wounded by pornography. Raising awareness aso invoves pubic witness and effective use of pubic poicy. Because pornography is ubiquitous and often protected by courts, making the ink between pornography and the pubic heath crisis it has created wi require incrementa, judicious steps. One such measure is egisation being proposed this year. Supporting SF 2554 (Benson)/HF 2967 (Lohmer) wi hep impose additiona fines on convicted chid pornography offenders, and direct those monies to victims of sex trafficking. It woud aso direct pubic officias to further study the connections between pornography and human trafficking. Understanding the inks between pornography and sex trafficking forces a of us to see that pornography is not a victimess act nor a harmess, private activity. It is instead a root cause of human sex trafficking and a major contributor to the commodification of our feow human beings. Cathoic Advocacy Network ACTION ALERT! Editor s note: Shawn Peterson is Associate Director for Pubic Poicy for the Minnesota Cathoic Conference. Ask your egisators to support the bi SF 2554 / HF SF 2554 / HF 2967 pubicy recognizes the ink between pornography and human trafficking. This bi aso directs fines coected for the offenses of chid pornography and the dissemination and dispay of harmfu materias to minors to the Safe Harbor Program a program that assists human sex trafficking victims. You can reassure your egisators that this bi does not redirect funds from any existing programs. Ca your egisators and ask them to support bi SF 2554 and HF To find contact information for your state senator and state representative, ca or visit com. Cathoic bishops urge concrete actions to address scourge of gun vioence WASHINGTON In the aftermath of the tragic Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Marjory Stoneman Dougas High Schoo in Parkand, F., where 17 peope were kied and fourteen more taken to hospitas, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, F., chairman of the United States Conference of Cathoic Bishop s (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Deveopment, and Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Cathoic Education, urged nationa eaders to finay come together and address the crisis of gun vioence in a comprehensive way. The fu statement foows: Once again, we are confronted with grave evi, the murder of our dear chidren and those who teach them. Our prayers continue for those who have died, and those suffering with injuries and unimaginabe grief. We aso continue our decadesong advocacy for commonsense gun measures as part of a comprehensive approach to the reduction of vioence in society and the protection of ife. Specificay, this moment cas for an honest and practica diaogue around a series of concrete proposas - not partisanship and overheated rhetoric. The idea of arming teachers seems to raise more concerns than it addresses. Setting a more appropriate minimum age for gun ownership, requiring universa background checks (as the bishops have ong advocated), and banning bump stocks are concepts that appear to offer more promise. We must expore ways to curb vioent images and experiences with which we inundate our youth, and ensure that aw enforcement have the necessary toos and incentives to identify troubed individuas and get them hep. Most peope with menta iness wi never commit a vioent act, but menta iness has been a significant factor in some of these horrific attacks. We must ook to increase resources and seek earier interventions. For many years, the USCCB has supported a federa ban on assaut weapons, imitations on civiian access to high-capacity weapons and ammunition magazines, further criminaizing gun trafficking, certain imitations on the purchase of handguns, and safety measures such as ocks that prevent chidren and anyone other than the owner from using guns without permission. The advocacy by survivors of the Parkand shooting and young peope throughout our nation is a stark reminder that guns pose an enormous danger to the innocent when they fa into the wrong hands. The voices of these advocates shoud ring in our ears as they describe the peacefu future to which they aspire. We must aways remember what is at stake as we take actions to safeguard our communities and honor human ife. In the words of St. John, et us ove not in word or speech but in deed and truth (1 Jn. 3:18). Learn how to impact change on Minnesota s aws and poicies Join the Minnesota Cathoic Conference for Capito 101 where you wi earn to advocate for human dignity and the common good. Hear from Minnesota egisators and faith eaders, see the egisature in action, earn what issues are in front of the egisature this session, see the newy renovated capito buiding, and schedue a meeting with your egisators. Register today for this FREE advocacy training at the State Capito on Apri 17. Visit www. MNCathoic.org/Capito-101. The Prairie Cathoic Page 10

10 around the diocese Upcoming events Forty Days for Life, a prayerfu, peacefu vigi presence to end abortion, began Feb. 14 and ends March 25 on the pubic right of way in front of Panned Parenthood in St. Coud, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Contact Judy Haag at Judy4ife@mete.net or (320) Spring Fing fundraising event for Hoy Redeemer Cathoic Schoo in Marsha is Saturday, Apri 14, at the Church of the Hoy Redeemer, Carin Ha in Marsha. Come for a mea, drinks, auctions, games and fun. Cost is $50 per person. Socia hour begins at 5:30 and mea at 7:00 p.m. Can t attend? You can sti support the schoo through our onine sient auction. Visit com. Chrism Mass ceebrates priesthood and besses hoy ois for distribution to parishes White Mass for a physicians, others in the heathcare fied and their famiies wi be hed Apri 28 at 5:00 p.m. at the Cathedra of the Hoy Trinity, New Um. For more information contact Frani Knowes, MD, (507) For more upcoming events throughout the diocese visit To submit an event for the Diocese of New Um website, emai pforst@dnu.org. Meendez s message is one of hope, faith, encouragement (Continued from page 1) front of the crowd, offering words of encouragement. Tony, Tony, you are truy a courageous young man you are giving hope to a of us. My wish to you is to continue of giving this hope to a the peope, the pope said. That papa encouragement is what ed Meendez to do what he does best - share and give hope to others through his music and sharing of his ife experience. There is a genuine need for peope in ife to hep others get through... if they see a man with no arms... if they start seeing some of the things I ve done, it maybe motivates them, said Meendez during a recent phone interview. During Meendez s time in the diocese Feb , he spoke and performed at severa ocations in the Spirit of Life AFC (Beardsey, Gracevie, Madison, Ortonvie, and Rosen). We must not be afraid to share our faith, to evangeize, Meendez tod his audience. That moment (in 1987) has sent me around the word, he said. According Spirit of Life AFC pastor Fr. Brian Oestreich, meeting the needs of parishioners takes creativity and reaching out in ways that are unique. His hope for this year s Lenten Mission was twofod, that Meendez woud share the Cathoic message in this part of the diocese, and secondy to hep soidify the Spirit of Life Cathoic AFC. Hoy Rosary parishioner Pauette Webb described the mission as a truy inspirationa experience. He (Tony) touched my heart, she said. If he can do things in his ife without arms, there is no reason why I can t with arms! said Webb. Webb said she beieves God has a specia mission for each of us on this earth to bring others to Christ. As a nurse she tries daiy to ive her Christian faith wherever she goes because you never know who God wi put in your path. The Meendez brothers taked about the importance of having a persona reationship with Jesus Christ something you can t share with others if you don t have it yoursef. At the cose of the mission, Jose Meendez encouraged the audience to use what you have to evangeize. Bring new ife into our Church because we need it so bady. We are osing young peope. It isn t that we don t care, or that we re not compassionate enough, but we have to start iving this faith of ours and bringing it to ife, Jose said. Correction It was reported in the January/ February 2018 edition of The Prairie Cathoic that Fr. Brian Oestreich serves the St. Hubert Area Faith Community, (page 3). In fact, he serves the Spirit of Life Area Faith Community which incudes the parishes of Hoy Rosary, Gracevie; St. Michae, Madison; St. John, Ortonvie; and St. Joseph, Rosen. The Prairie Cathoic NEW ULM A are invited to attend one the most specia iturgies in the diocesan Church, the Chrism Mass, which wi be hed Thursday, March 22 at 7 p.m. at the Cathedra of the Hoy Trinity in New Um. During this iturgy, Bishop John M. LeVoir wi bess the ois used for sacramenta anointing and officiate over the annua renewa of promises made by priests serving in the Diocese of New Um. The Chrism Mass has been ceebrated in the Roman Cathoic Church for over 1,000 years and is marked by the ceremonia bessing of the oi of catechumens, the oi of the sick, and consecration of the oi of chrism. The bessed ois wi be used in parishes throughout the diocese. (Bishop LeVoir consecrating the Sacred Chrism, archive photo) Foowing the bessing of the ois of the sick and catechumens, the chrism oi is consecrated. The bessing of the hoy chrism is different from that of the other ois. Here the bishop breathes over the vesse of chrism, a gesture which symboizes both the Hoy Spirit coming down to consecrate this oi, and the ife- During this specia iturgy, Bishop LeVoir wi begin by bessing the oi of the sick and the oi of catechumens. The oi of the sick is used to anoint a who suffer in mind and body. The oi of catechumens is reserved for those preparing for baptism. giving, sanctifying nature of the character sacraments for which it is used. The oi of chrism is used in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Hoy Orders, and for bessing the atars and was of new churches. San Lucas Stove Project receives substantia donation from Eagan parish A famiy in San Lucas Toiman, Guatemaa, stand next to their new stove, which they received through the work of the San Lucas Mission. Recipients of these simpe concrete, cosed-fue appiances experience significant improvements in their quaity of ife, not ony due to their fue-efficiency, but because they eiminate the smoke and hazards of open-pit fires in the home. In November, Bishop John M. LeVoir of the Diocese of New Um ceebrated Mass with parishioners of the Church of St. John Neumann in Eagan, Minn. On behaf of the non-profit Friends of San Lucas of which Bishop LeVoir is a board member, the bishop was presented a check from the Eagan parish for $39,340 as a donation toward the San Lucas Stove Project. This important project has been providing stoves to the famiies of San Lucas and surrounding communities since The generous funds from St. John Neumann wi be used to construct new stoves. Mission of Love The Friends of San Lucas Mission of Love vaentine project runs through March 31. Make or purchase a vaentine, sign it (no address pease), and send it with a $2 donation to Friends of San Lucas, 4679 Cambridge Drive, Eagan, MN Donations used to purchase corn, rice, beans, and schoo suppies for those in need at the San Lucas Toiman Mission in Guatemaa. Visit www. sanucasmission.org. Page 11

11 The pope added the memoria to the Roman Caendar after carefuy considering how the promotion of devotion to the Bessed Virgin Mary under this particuar tite might encourage growth in the materna sense of the Church and in genuine Marian piety. The memoria of the Bessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, has been added to the Genera Roman Caendar, the Roman Missa, and the Liturgy of the Hours. The Latin text has been pubished, and the transations wi be prepared by the bishops conferences and approved by the congregation. A ceebration of a memoria generay means that prayers and readings specific to the day s memoria are used in the Mass. In 2018, the memoria of the Bessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, wi be ceebrated on May 21. VATICAN CITY, (CNA/EWTN News) The Vatican announced Wecome those seeking to join the Church this Easter! Bessed Pope Pau VI oversaw much of the Second Vatican Counci and in 1969 promugated a new Roman Missa. Apart from his roe in the counci, he is most widey known for his andmark encycica Humanae Vitae, which was pubished in 1968 and reaffirmed the Church s teaching against contraception in wake of the sexua revoution. He died in 1978, and was beatified by Pope Francis Oct. 19, Bessed Oscar Romero, who was beatified by Pope Francis May 23, 2015, in E Savador, was shot whie ceebrating Mass March 24, 1980, during the birth of a civi war between eftist guerria forces and the dictatoria government of the right. An outspoken critic of the vioence and injustices being committed at the time, Romero was decared a martyr who was kied in hatred of the faith for his voca defense of human rights. The Vatican made the announce- ment about the acceptance of the miraces March 7, foowing a meeting between Pope Francis and Cardina Angeo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the day before. During the meeting, Francis advanced a tota of 13 saints causes, recognizing at east one person as a martyr and aowing one reigious sister to be beatified. ST. CLOUD Athough no date has been set, the Diocese of St. Coud has announced that it wi decare bankruptcy as it faces 74 civi caims aeging the sexua abuse of minors. St. Coud is the fourth diocese in Minnesota to decare bankruptcy after the passage of the Minnesota Chid Victims Act in 2013, which ifted the civi statute of imitations for chid abuse aegations unti May NEW ULM Each year as Lent begins, the Church ceebrates the Rite of Eection and the Ca to Continuing Conversion as part of the process of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Aduts, or RCIA. Its focus is on two groups of peope: catechumens, or unbaptized peope seeking the three sacraments of initiation Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist; and candidates, those baptized in a separated eccesia community who wish to be received into the fu communion of the Cathoic Church, or those baptized Cathoic but previousy uncatechized aduts who wish to compete their Christian initiation through the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist. During this year s Rite of Eection and the Ca to Continuing Conversion hed Feb. 18 at the Cathedra of the Hoy Trinity in New Um, Bishop John M. LeVoir wecomed five catechumens and 46 candidates from 17 parishes in the diocese. As part of the iturgy, parishes come before the bishop bearing the Book of the Eect that catechumens had signed at their parish during what is caed the Rite of Sending. Pictured, Mary Grack, director of Faith Formation for the Church of St. Peter in St. Peter ooks on as Bishop LeVoir signs her parish s Book of the Eect. (Photo by Christine Cancy) No. 5 Vo. 32 Diocese of New Um Minnesota s Most Rura Diocese VATICAN CITY (CNA/ EWTN News) On March 3 the Vatican announced Pope Francis decision that the Church ceebrate the Bessed Virgin Mary in her roe as Mother of the Church every year on the Monday after Pentecost, as a way to foster Marian piety and the materna sense of the Church. March 7 that Pope Francis has recognized a second mirace aowing five peope on the path to sainthood to be canonized, the most prominent being Bessed Pope Pau VI and Bessed Oscar Romero. Though no date has yet been announced, the two are expected to be canonized together during the Synod of Bishops in October. 2016, giving aeged victims three years in which to fie caims for abuse aeged to have occurred decades ago. I am committed to openness and transparency about how we are working to resove these awsuits. We wi keep pastors and parishes informed about the process as it moves forward. I ask you to pease continue to pray for heaing for a victims and survivors of cergy sexua abuse, Bishop Donad J. Ketter said in a statement issued by the diocese on Feb. 28. According to the Diocese of St. Coud, the reorganization is not ikey to impact the norma operations of its 131 parishes and 29 schoos. 60 active priests serve more than 133,000 Cathoics in the diocese. Cathoic Charities Counseing Services offered in Hutchinson, Marsha, New Um, and Wimar Providing: Individua, Marriage, and Famiy Counseing; Pregnancy Counseing, Adoption, Project Rache, and Respect Life Resources; Parish and Community Response; Transition and Grief Services. Referred Services incude: Immigration, Financia Counseing, and Guardianship Resources. Ca to-free , e-mai pkra@dnu.org