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Blessed Carlo devotees share love, testimony on feast day
Panel exhibition available for loan to churches, schools
By Tami S. Scott, associate editor
Her doctors didn’t give her much hope. They told her she couldn’t be cured. One even gave her less than a 5% chance of survival.
Father John Kurgan, pastor of Holy Cross Church in DeWitt, visited her in the hospital on Christmas day to give her the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
Meet Margaret Driscoll-Cheah, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer in 2022. “I had cancer all over. It had spread to multiple bones. I had multiple tumors all over the place,” she said.
Cheah went home with oxygen tanks, a shower chair, a bathroom chair, multiple medication gadgets, and a hospital bed. “I couldn’t even sit up. My husband would help me sit up, that’s how sick I was.”
LEFT: Faith formation students from St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus Church in New Berlin help to “Fill the Wagon.”
New Berlin students ‘Fill the Wagon’ to fight hunger
By Dc. Tom Cuskey, editor
If you do an online search for “crop walk” you’ll no doubt land on the Crop Hunger Walk home page where a national map is littered with little red place markers noting a local walk. It all started in 1947 with farmers trying to feed a world recovering from World War II.
ABOVE: The entry to the Our Lady of Peace Mausoleum in Baldwinsville.
Remembering saints and sinners
All Saints and All Souls Days usher in a time of remembrance
By Dc. Tom Cuskey, editor
As this story is published, it’s Halloween Day. Kids across the diocese are getting ready, costumes prepared and bags in hand, to make the most of All Hallows Eve.
Christians around the world are preparing for what follows. “Hallows” is another word for “holy,” so it is a holy eve, readying for the observance of the two hallowed days that ask us to pause and pray for those who have gone before us.
Above: The Florence American Cemetery is located outside Florance Italy. Close to 4,400 U.S. soldiers are buried there.
On foreign soil
Honoring American soldiers in Italy
Staff writer Eileen Jevis recently toured several cities in Italy and is sharing with us her moving experience at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial site.
By Eileen Jevis, staff writer
The United States has been celebrating Veterans Day since 1954 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed Armistice Day to honor all American veterans. The holiday pays tribute to Americans who lost their lives at war and to honor our active-duty military. Visiting
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Ordinary Time” with Lucia Silechia, (the “Lucia” theme is purely concidental).
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‘God never changes … alone God suffices’
I write this column on the feast day of a saint (October 15) who keeps me calm despite her own fiery nature at the time, St. Teresa of Avila (also known as St. Teresa of Jesus). She wrote these lines in her breviary (her book for the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours) that I quote at some point in the course each day: “Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God never changes. Patient endurance obtains all things. Who God possesses, in nothing is lacking, alone God suffices.”
The Future of Ordinary Time
By Lucia A. Silecchia
My team did not make it to the World Series.
They got close — very close. Alas, the playoffs did not end well for them. I am not the most devoted fan since I usually do not follow the team’s progress until the excitement of the later part of the season when the stakes are higher, and the disappointment greater.
Yet, I noticed something after the post-season loss. Almost everyone said, “Wait until next year,” or “Better luck next year,” or “Spring training will be here before you know it.” Some may be revisiting the past, reflecting on missed opportunities, strategic errors and misplayed games. Nevertheless, most people who shared my disappointment were already looking ahead to a new season, a fresh start and another chance for the victory that slipped away in 2024.
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