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Bishop's Letter
June 30, 2010
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
I hope that these summer days provide you and your friends and family with many opportunities for rest and relaxation. We all need times to be rejuvenated and refreshed both in body and spirit. Let us continue to thank God for the beauties of Creation, especially present here in Iowa, and not forget to praise and thank Him each weekend at the Sunday Eucharist. Even on vacation, there is no vacation from worshiping our God the best way we can at the celebration of the Mass.
SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
As I write these reflections, today is the Solemnity of the great apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. In Rome, our native son, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, Archbishop of Cincinnati, is receiving from our Holy Father the “pallium.” He and thirty-seven other archbishops from around the world (all those named during the past year) will receive a “three fingers broad” pallium woven of white lamb’s wool. This small garment fits over the head of the archbishops and covers the chasuble when the archbishops celebrate the Liturgy. It is a symbol that these archbishops are in a special way united with the ministry of the Pope as they guide and govern not only their own archdiocese, but also give assistance to the dioceses that fall under the jurisdiction. (Archbishop Hanus of Dubuque is our Metropolitan Archbishop here in Iowa and wears the pallium.)
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Around the Diocese
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RAGBRAI to be pilgrimage for seminarian
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Some riders use RAGBRAI as a way of exercising or sightseeing across Iowa. But one rider sees something deeper in the week-long bike ride – an opportunity to grow in faith.
Justin McCarty, a seminarian from St. Joseph Parish in Hartley, said he wants to make it a pilgrimage, calling it the Tour De Ecclesia.
“The first three days are in our diocese and I thought we get to go through all these little towns that have Catholic churches,” he said. “From doing Totus Tuus, I know that a lot of them are beautiful and I don’t think most people realize how blessed we are to have these beautiful, quaint little churches in our diocese.”
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Renovation progress at St. Joseph
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Almost a year ago St. Joseph Church in Sioux City was severely damaged in a fire, but now the church is on its way to recovery.
The process of plastering began in the church at the end April and will soon be complete. This is one step of many to be completed before the church can reopen, which is slated for October or November.
Olympic Companies out of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., was hired to do the plastering. This company has branch offices in Des Moines, Sioux Falls and Milwaukee. The main projects they work on are plastering, restorations, dry walling, fireproofing, stucco, etc.
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