Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ This week’s Bishop’s Corner comes to you as an “in-flight edition.” I am on my way back on Thursday morning from Tampa, having assisted at †Kathleen Sanborn’s funeral on Wednesday. Fr. Cekada served as MC, I gave the […]

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The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet _________________ Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ I write this on a rainy feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Milwaukee, remembering the beautiful feast of the Assumption in West Chester just one week ago. Heaven did indeed […]

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Blessing of First Fruits on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Have you noticed the addition to our handsome new church sign on Rialto Road? It is a cross (Hail, O Cross, our only hope!) but not any cross. It is the cross that originally topped the steeple of […]

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Thanks to everyone who helped out with our boys and girls camps this year. _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Friday, feast of the Curé of Ars, patron saint of parish priests, saw much clergy coming and going, as Fridays often do. Fr. Lehtoranta departed for Milwaukee, and another “in absentia” funeral on Saturday. Father […]

St. Gertrude the Great Summer, 2013 Newsletter is now available. Why the Latin Mass? Read Fr. Cekada’s book, “Work of Human Hands”.

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Thanks to everyone who helped out with our boys and girls camps this year. _________________ ✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠ Our Summer has been decidedly cool and wet, which must cast the global warmers into confusion. Last Sunday morning was the most perfect of several days in a row, which filled us with wonder and […]