Eternal rest grant onto him, Oh, Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon him

Eternal rest grant onto him, Oh, Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon him.

On Friday, September 28, 2007, Mark Anderson passed away. A note from his family:
Dad passed away around 11:45 am this morning. He had multi-organ failure happen through out the night. We three oldest girls, mom, 2 close family friends and a priest were with him when his heart stopped. The Memorare was said over him and he went peacefully in that moment. May he rest in peace.

Funeral Arrangements:
O'Connell Funeral Home in Baldwin
Tuesday October 2nd --- Visitation 5-8pm with a vigil prayer service at 7:30pm
St. Mary's Parish (Big River Church) in River Falls
Wednesday October 3rd -- Rosary at 9:45 and Funeral at 11am with Luncheon to follow at the Parish Hall.

The fundraiser on October 14 is even more important now. Thank you to all who have responded so generously to the Anderson family in their great time of need.

Click here for a copy of the Mark Anderson Fundraiser flyer (please copy and distribute)

A valued member of our community, Mark Anderson of Anderson's Plant Farm in Baldwin, WI, has suffered a critical head injury from an accidental fall while at home on Sept. 16th. He has a wonderful wife, Lori, and 10 children. He is now at Regions Hospital ( St. Paul ) in critical condition. He is the main operator of their family business as a greenhouse wholesale flower distributor and also sells retail flowers and plants from their greenhouses on their property in Baldwin, just outside of River Falls . The family business cannot operate without him, and the business will need to shut down for at least the next season. The family will have no income for the next year. His family is in great need of assistance and medical bills will be high. Any help that you could offer the family at this time would be a great blessing and very much appreciated.

Please contact Mike and Kristi O’Malley of KilKarney Golf Course and Sittin Valley Tree Farm, who are planning a benefit in October for the Anderson family at the golf course. They are planning a golf benefit and auction. Contact them at 715-426-5363.

Also you may go to www.caringbridge.org/visit/markanderson1 to learn about what happened to Mark and to monitor Mark’s progress during recovery. Please remember the Anderson family in your prayers. From Mike: We need as many people to buy golf holes for the golf event. It's $300 for a complete hole, which may be shared with another business or $125 for a tee, fairway or green sponsorship. Honestly, we have very little time to sell this, so we need your help please. Copy the info I've sent you and take it to a place that you do frequent business with and ask that they purchase a sponsorship of a hole. If you sell any, get a check made out to Mark Anderson benefit and call Mike O'Malley at 715-441-1888. Send the checks to Mike O'Malley, N8611 805th St. River Falls WI. 54022. Also, we need products to auction or raffle. Thank you! Mike O'Malley

Archbishop Burke on Canon 915

From the Ad Majoreum Dei Gloria blogspot: http://slatts.blogspot.com/

Archbishop Burke on Canon 915

The Real Presence Association

From Dr. Ed Peters:

One of America 's sharpest canon lawyer bishops (Abp. Raymond Burke of St. Louis ), has just published a terrific article in perhaps the world's most prestigious canon law journal (Periodica de re Canonica in Rome ), on a topic of vital interest to the Church in the world (the correct application of Canon 915 on denial of Holy Communion). Best of all, it's available on-line here.

Read his introduction to Archbishop Burke’s article here: http://www.canonlaw.info/2007/09/abp-raymond-burke-on-canon-915.html

Labels: Burke, Canon Law, Eucharist, Sacraments

Team Vianney

Contact Mary Jo Neuschwander at 715-381-0114 (Please forward)

Message from Mary Jo: The First Thursday of every month, families gather at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church parking lot in Hudson to carpool over to the Team Vianney monthly event at 4:45 p.m. to arrive at the St. John Vianney College Seminary on the St. Thomas University Campus. While this event is mostly for young high school men, their fathers and mothers, young men as young as 5th grade have attended this event. The evening includes celebrating Mass, a procession to Our Holy Mother, a talk by Father Baehr and other priests/seminarians, and pizza. They usually arrive back in Hudson about 9:00 p.m. If you would like to participate, please call Mary Jo at 715-381-0114 for more information. Equal focus these last 2 years has been on the new, junior high age group that meets separately from the high school age group. Father Baehr is in charge of this younger group. Mary Jo also has information about Theotokos: It's high school women who gather together with Team Vianney for the procession, then they split from the young men for their own speakers and talks. Then they all join together again afterwards for Mass and a brief social. You can get more information about it on the St. Paul/Mpls. vocations website. http://www.10000vocations.org/content.asp?id=22

Invitation to join families of Team Vianney

http://vianney.net/

Held every first Thursday at 5:45 p.m.
October 4, 2007
November 1, 2007
December 6, 2007
February 7, 2008 - "Heads Up" Return from Break!
The Team Vianney Pledge

As a member of Team Vianney, I promise to be dedicated to the Catholic Faith, to help lead others to Jesus Christ, and to follow the call in life that God gives me.
I promise to pray every day, to go to Mass every week, and to go to Confession every month.

I promise to support the mission of Team Vianney by faithfully attending the monthly meetings of the entire Team, by inviting other Catholic men from my high school and parish to join the Team, and by using all my gifts for the Glory of God and the good of others."

Leadership - Vision - Vocation
For more information, contact Fr. John Kockeman at 651-962-6832.

The Dunn County Historical Society presents a Paleozoic event

The Dunn County Historical Society presents a Paleozoic event

The Dunn County Historical Society is bringing a nationally recognized
exhibit, Trilobite Treasures:Arthropods of the Ancient Seas, to Menomonie.
This exhibition of World Class Trilobite Specimens, by award winning
Palentologist Joseph "PaleoJoe" Kchodl, brings rare and beautiful
Trilobites to life. Join us as we take you back in time.

. Explore the ancient Paleozoic with the fascinating TRILOBITES.
. Trilobites swam the ancient seas 500 Million years ago during the
Cambrian Explosion of life and became extinct at the beginning of the
Permian period - long before the age of Dinosaurs

This is a rare opportunity to experience a high quality educational and
cultural exhibit that covers an introduction to fossils; the types and how
they form as well as the stories fossils can tell us about the natural
history of our world in prehistoric times. The Wisconsin is rich with
fossil history and the Wisconsin state fossil is the trilobite Calymene
Celebra from the Ordovician-Silurian age.

Trilobite Treasures exhibit tours are available for schools, businesses
and other groups. This exhibit complements school science curriculum.
"Paleo Joe" Kchodl is available for school program visits that conform to
national core curriculum standards for GeoSphere - elementary and middle
school grades. For more information visit,
www.dunnhistory.org/trilobite.html.

"PaleoJoe" has written the children's Dinosaur Detective books Hidden
Dinosaurs, Disappearance of Dinosaur Sue, Stolen Stegosaurus and adult
books such as A Complete Guide to Michigan Fossils, and A Pictorial Guide
to North American Trilobites. "PaleoJoe's" fourth (in a series a twelve)
Dinosaur Detective book , Raptor's Revenge will make its World Premier in
at the Rassbach Museum on October 27, 2007.

Event: Trilobite Treasures:Arthropods of the Ancient Seas museum exhibit
Dates: September 15, 2007 through January 6, 2008
Place: Russell J Rassbach Heritage Museum
1820 Wakanda St
Menomonie, WI 54751
(in Menomonie's Wakanda Park)
Contact information: Roy Ostenso
Telephone: 715-232-8685
E-mail: dchs@dunnhistory.org
http://www. dunnhistory.org/trilobite.html
Roy Ostenso
President
Dunn County Historical Society

Subscribers of "The Wanderer"

Please call The Wanderer at 651-224-5733.

For anyone who subscribes to The Wanderer, you may have read an article in their July 19, 2007, edition, that was a book review column by Pete Vere. The book being reviewed was The Mystery of Harry Potter--A Catholic Family Guide. If you were as shocked as I was to read this article positively reviewing a book by a so-called orthodox Catholic homeschooling author and writer that had no issue with reading the Potter books (with parental oversight), then please call The Wanderer and voice your concerns. I just spoke with them, and she said while they haven't received any complaints (except me, of course), she "heard me", said she would tell the editor of my comments, and they might run "the other side." I mentioned that the "other side" includes concerns raised by the Pope in a personal letter to another author. I told her of my ongoing struggle trying to combat witchcraft in my family with this Pottermania, only to have a family member provide their article from "my source" as the green light to read Potter books. I've been trying to keep a running listing of those opposed to promoting witchcraft with the reading of these books, including personal comments made by then-Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, on our Catholic Homeschooling blogspot at: http://stcroixvalleycatholichomeschooling.blogspot.com. Ironically, I found another article written by Pete Vere entitled "Linking Sorcery and Contraception." Linking Sorcery and Contraception by Pete Vere

Linked here is an excellent article by Fr. Christopher Crotty of the Fathers of Mercy: The Truth About Harry Potter

The Wanderer article is available upon request in .pdf format, or log in for a free copy at The Wanderer. The article is titled Why Feminists Hate Harry Potter.

Harry Potter and the Great Divide

Harmless Harry?

The Truth about Harry Potter: Written and researched by Fr. Christopher Crotty, Fathers of Mercy

Spiritual Warfare: The Occult Has Demonic Influence

Kindergarten cops rule: Witches in, Bibles out--'Sounds the death knell for religious freedom'

Resist the occult; some of it is even demonic

Harry Potter Fanatics Lash Out at Pope, Michael O'Brien, LifeSiteNews Over Criticism of Novels

Harry Potter and "the Death of God" - by Michael D. O'Brien

NYC 'VOODOO' PRINCIPAL AXED
H.S. ADMINISTRATOR ACCUSED OF PERFORMING SANTERIA RITUAL

Maine bookstore holds divinations celebrating latest Potter release

Harry Potter and the assault on Christianity

Dobson Officially Renounces 'Harry Potter'

Potter may help the devil: Mexican priest

Harry Potter and anti-Christian bigotry

Author: 'Pottermania' spells trouble--Warns real occultism permeates popular children's books

Norway hosts witchcraft experts

The Deadly Magic of Potter Movies--The Order of the Phoenix is not "just fantasy"

The Real Presence

CANON 915:
THE DISCIPLINE REGARDING
THE DENIAL OF HOLY COMMUNION
TO THOSE OBSTINATELY PERSEVERING
IN MANIFEST GRAVE SIN

"... In the Decree of Gratian, we also find a quotation from a letter of Cyprian Euricacius to a confrère, in which he responds to a request for counsel regarding the question of whether a certain charlatan and sorcerer ought to be given Holy Communion. The question makes reference to the fact that the person in question perseveres in the shamefulness of his art, becoming a teacher and expert for children who, because of his bad example, are not educated but are led astray [23]. It further references the truth that evil taught to some also reaches others, which seems to be a clear reference to scandal. The response is: (I think that it is neither congruent with the divine majesty or evangelical discipline, in order that the modesty and honor of the Church not be sullied by such an indecent and infamous contagion). [24]..."
"...Regarding the ministering of the Sacrament to the faithful, the Rituale Romanum established:

All the faithful are to be admitted to Holy Communion, except those who are prohibited for a just reason. The publicly unworthy, which are the excommunicated, those under interdict, and the manifestly infamous, such as prostitutes, those cohabiting, usurers, sorcerers, fortune-tellers, blasphemers and other sinners of the public kind, are, however, to be prevented, unless their penitence and amendment has been established and they will have repaired the public scandal. [28]
The discipline by which those persevering in manifest and grievous sin are kept from receiving Holy Communion is seen as integral to the worship and care of the Holy Eucharist. The responsibility of the Church in the matter clearly rests with the priest as the minister of the Sacrament, lest the greatest good of the Church be violated, the communicant commit sacrilege, and the faithful, in general, be scandalized.

The language of the discipline reflects the language of the Decretal Law. The same language will be found in the subsequent articulation of the Church's discipline.

The Rituale Romanum concludes the instruction to the priests by taking up three other cases of persons to whom it may be necessary to refuse Holy Communion. The first case involves occult grievous sinners who ask for Holy Communion. If they ask occultly and the priest does not recognize them as having amended their life, he is to refuse Holy Communion to them. If, however, they publicly seek the Sacrament and the priest cannot deny the Sacrament to them without causing scandal, then he is to give Holy Communion to them..."

"...6. Synodal Legislation of the Eastern Churches

The discipline regarding the denial of Holy Communion to public sinners is also clearly enunciated in the synodal legislation of the Eastern Churches. For example, in 1599, the Malabar Church of southern India held a synod in the city of Diamper, which was convoked by the Latin Archbishop of Goa, Alexius de Menezes [35]. Decree III of the Synod of Diamper, referring to the teaching of Saint Paul in the First Letter to the Corinthians, declared:

Wherefore, it is not permitted to give this Sacrament to public sinners, until they will have given up their sins, such as are public sorcerers, prostitutes, the publicly cohabiting, and those who publicly profess hatreds without reconciliation. [36]
The decree in question also gives careful instruction regarding the vigilance of the local vicars, lest they sin gravely by offering the Sacrament to public sinners.

In 1720, the Ruthenian Church held a provincial council at Zamostia, in which the Apostolic Nuncio, the metropolitan archbishop, 7 bishops, 8 major superiors of religious, and 129 members of the secular and regular clergy participated. [37] Regarding the denial of Holy Communion, the Synod made its own the perennial discipline of the Church:

Lest occasion be given to some scandal or loss of good name, the Holy Eucharist is not to be denied to the unworthy sinner because of some secret sin, above all, if the priest giving Communion will have received news of it from the confession of the sinner himself, seeking publicly the Eucharist. Heretics, schismatics, the excommunicated, the interdicted, public criminals, the openly infamous, as also prostitutes, the publicly cohabiting, major usurers, fortune-tellers, and other evil-doing men of the same kind, however, are not to be admitted to the reception of this Sacrament, according to the precept of Christ: (Do not give the Holy to dogs). [38]..."

"...Regarding Holy Communion, the Synod of 1736 legislated that the "publicly unworthy" are not to be admitted to Holy Communion. The legislation gives as examples of those to be denied Holy Communion the following: (heretics, schismatics, apostates, the excommunicated, the interdicted, and the openly notorious, such as prostitutes, the cohabiting, usurers, sorcerers, fortune-tellers, blasphemers and other sinners of this public kind). The legislation gives two conditions under which they may subsequently be admitted to receive Holy Communion: 1) the establishment of their penance and change of life; and 2) the prior repair of public scandal. [40] In other words, the canonical discipline is directed both to the eternal salvation of the soul of the sinner and to the correction of the scandal given by a person who publicly violates the moral law in a grave mat>ter and then presumes to receive Holy Communion..."

"...Confusion, of course, is one of the most insidious fruits of scandalous behavior..."