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December 5, 2002 Edition • Volume 132, No. 45 • Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
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New Catholic Multicultural Center:
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The new building is now home to St. Martin House and Centro Guadalupano. St. Martin House serves 140 meals a night three nights a week and runs a children's summer program. Centro Guadalupano offers pastoral and legal services, computer classes, English language classes, Spanish classes, food pantry, job placement service and clothing for job interviews.
The new center will be an outreach to the Asian community as well.
Tour of new building
J. Mark Brinkmoeller, administrator of the Diocese of Madison's new Catholic Multicultural Center, recently took Catholic Herald staff on a tour of the building, constructed by J.H. Findorff and Son Construction Co.
Entering from the new parking lot or from the entrance facing the street, visitors enter a well-lit building with high ceilings. Satillo tile, brownish orange tiles from Mexico, covers the floor.
Three St. Martin House offices, including a nurse's room, occupy the front of the building on the first floor. With a wood ceiling and brightly colored striped (green, red, orange, brown) carpeting that lines the floor, the community room offers a welcoming space.
The chapel, which includes stained glass windows from the previous building, can seat up to 110 people when a partition opens up into the community room. Currently the altar and furniture is being built for the chapel, said Brinkmoeller. Full Story ...
Feast of Our Lady
of Guadalupe
MADISON -- In the Diocese of Madison, a Mass will be celebrated in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 11:30 a.m. at St. Raphael Cathedral, 222 W. Main St.
Those attending are invited to wear traditional costumes and/or bring flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe or the flag of their native country.
Beginning at 11 a.m. will be a procession including a statue of Our Lady and children from religious education classes at Centro Guadalupano. People are welcome to bring up flowers to place before the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Mass will begin at 11:30 a.m. Bishop William H. Bullock will preside and preach at the Mass. Estudiantina, the Diocese of Madison's Spanish choir under the direction of Toni Kellor, will lead the singing.
All are invited to enjoy a reception in the church hall afterward. A group of Hispanic women in their traditional dresses will perform folk dances. Everyone is welcome.
A few events leading up to the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe include the following: Full Story ...
Services Dec. 6
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Fr. John Dowd |
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Bishop William H. Bullock will be main celebrant of the Mass. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, and from 10 a.m. until the Mass on Friday, all at the church. Burial will be at Sacred Hearts Cemetery, Sun Prairie.
Dowd was born in Beaver Dam, Wis., on March 3, 1935, to Ambrose and Eleanor Sholes Dowd. He attended St. Jerome Grade School and Oconomowoc High School, both in Oconomowoc.
After attending Notre Dame University for a year, he completed college studies in philosophy and theology at St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee. He was ordained to the priesthood May 25, 1963, at St. Raphael Cathedral in Madison.
He served as associate pastor at St. William, Janesville; St. Mary, Portage; and St. Patrick, Janesville. He was pastor at St. Patrick, Doylestown, with the mission of St. Joseph, Rio; St. Francis Xavier, Lake Mills, with the mission of St. Mary Magdalene, Johnson Creek; SS. Anthony and Philip, Highland; St. John the Baptist, Jefferson; Our Lady of the Lake, Green Lake; and St. Joseph, Madison.
He had served as dean of Iowa Deanery; Diocesan Consultor; Procurator of the Diocesan Tribunal; Diocesan Pastoral Council member; and instructor at Beloit Catholic High School.
Survivors include his sisters, Helen (Rodney) Maasch, Madison; Sally (Richard) Lyons, Carlsbad, Calif.; sister-in-law Sue Dowd, Oconomowoc; and many nieces and nephews.
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