Diocesan Events September 11, 2003 Parish Leadership Day Bishop O'Connor Center Madison Contact: Office of Vicar General 608-821-3015 October 5-8, 2003 Presbyteral Assembly Nov. 6, 2003 St Thérèse of Lisieux Lecture Bishop Robert C. Morlino Bishop O'Connor Center Madison 7 p.m. Contact: Office of Pastoral Services 608-821-3083 November 9-13, 2003 Clergy Retreat Bishop O'Connor Center Madison Feb. 19, 2004 St Thérèse of Lisieux Lecture Fr. Bryan Hehir Bishop O'Connor Center Madison 7 p.m. Contact: Office of Pastoral Services 608-821-3083

Around the Diocese

Dinners and festivals

BLOOMINGTON - St. Mary Parish festival, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14: Saturday: Mass, 7 p.m., hypnotist Lloyd Dlask, 8:15 p.m.; food, refreshments; Sunday: Mass, 10 a.m.; barbecue chicken and ham dinner, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; bean bag tournament; bingo; cakewalk; games; country store; cash raffle with $1,300 in prizes.

FOOTVILLE - Fall festival, St. Augustine Parish, Sunday, Sept. 14: family style pork dinner, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; raffle drawing, 2:30 p.m.; children's games; cakewalk; homemade candy; bake sale; arts and crafts.

HAZEL GREEN - Fall festival, St. Francis de Sales Parish, Sunday, Sept. 14: Mass, 11 a.m.; charcoal grilled chicken dinner, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; cash raffle, $3,000 in prizes; food; games; bingo; variety booth; beer tent; dunk tank; silent auction; musical entertainment, 3 to 9 p.m.

LA VALLE - Chicken and biscuit supper, Holy Family Parish, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.: bake sale; country market; raffle.

LORETO - Fall festival, St. Patrick Parish (halfway between Plain and Loganville, take GG off Hwy. 23), Sunday, Sept. 14: Mass, 9:30 a.m.; open pit barbecued beef and ham dinner, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; cash raffle; refreshments; entertainment.

MINERAL POINT - St. Mary-St. Paul Parish festival, Sunday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: barbecued chicken dinner (take-outs available); silent auction; bake sale; children's games; raffle.

MONTFORT - Fall festival, St. Thomas Parish, Sunday, Sept. 14: roast beef and ham dinner, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; country store; silent auction; games.

Catholic Daughters

MADISON - Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Madison 1164, meeting, at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish, 401 S. Owen Dr., Thursday, Sept. 18: registration, 11:15 a.m.; rosary, 11:30 a.m.; Mass, luncheon, meeting; guests welcome; program by Sr. Maureen McDonnell, campus ministry, Edgewood College; cost $7; reservations, cancellations due before noon Sept. 15 by calling Mary, 608-831-6875.

Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center

MADISON - Scheduled events, Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center, 702 S. High Point Rd., call 608-821-3130 for information:

• Daily Mass, noon, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

• Friday, Sept. 12 - Holy Family Home Schoolers-drama rehearsal

• Saturday, Sept. 13 - Urban League of Greater Madison-Strategic Planning Meeting

• Saturday, Sept. 13-Sunday, Sept. 14 - Office of Pastoral Services-Diocesan Institute for Lay and Diaconate Formation

• Sunday, Sept. 14 - Office of Worship-Diocesan Choir retreat

• Monday, Sept. 15 - John Knox Presbytery-retired ministers, spouses; Office of Religious Education-LIMEX Group #3

• Tuesday, Sept. 16 - Office of Catholic Schools-Madison Diocese Mentorship Program; Office of Catholic Schools-GDCTagCN

• Wednesday, Sept. 17 - Holy Family Home Schoolers-drama rehearsal; Office of Pastoral Services-MDPMA

• Thursday, Sept. 18 - Madison Serra Club-Board meeting; Office of Family Ministry-NFP

Camp Gray

REEDSBURG - Camp Gray, scheduled events; for rent reservation, summer camp program, or rock climbing school information, call Chris Baumgart, 800-711-4729:

• Sept. 10-12 - St. Bernadette, Milwaukee;

• Sept. 12-13 - UW-Platteville;

• Sept. 13 - St. Ann Parish, Stoughton;

• Sept. 13-14 - St. Andrew Parish, Verona;

• Sept. 17 - Edgewood Campus School, Madison; Sacred Heart Parish, Reedsburg;

• Sept. 18-19 - St. Maria Goretti, Madison.

Send announcements of parish and diocesan organizations' activities to: The Catholic Herald, P.O. Box 44985, Madison, WI 53744-4985; fax: 608-821-3071; e-mail: info@madisoncatholicherald.org. Deadline is the Wednesday preceding the week of publication.