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Bishop's Letter
August 12, 2010
Dear Brothers and sisters in Christ,
How quickly July has flown by! I hope you are enjoying these weeks of summer. As our fields and gardens flourish with the bounty of the earth, may we be reminded that all we have is God’s most generous gift. We are grateful, and so we show that gratitude to others with deeper fidelity.
Gratitude and hospitality go hand in hand. Think first of our Lord’s hospitality to us: “Though He was in the form of God, He did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave.” The Son of God “emptied Himself” of His divine glory in order to become fully human, the Son of Man born of the Virgin Mary. He assumed our human nature, joining it to His own divine nature. “Remaining what He was, He became what He was not.” He received our weakness as a gift, when we had no other gift to offer our Lord and Creator. And He transformed our weakness into strength, the strength of our living faith, through His Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection. This week I would like to share with you more of my thoughts on two important issues.
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Around the Diocese
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Totus Tuus Travels to Diocesan Parishes
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For Linsey Stoll, a second year Totus Tuus teacher, summer wouldn’t seem like summer anymore without Totus Tuus. “I grew so much last summer,” said the Hospers native who graduated from Spalding Catholic. “I felt like I needed to come back. I wanted to teach again. It has been a blessed experience.” She added that she has learned so much from kids asking questions and having to go find the answers that she didn’t already know. “Not only do I want to know the answers, but I have all these kids who want to know the answer, too,” said Stoll. Across the Diocese of Sioux City, three teams of Totus Tuus teachers taught approximately 975 first through sixth graders and 495 seventh through twelfth graders over nine weeks this summer. The teams traveled to 24 parishes in the diocese and one outside the diocese beginning the week of May 29-June 4 and ending the week of July 31-Aug. 6.
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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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