 Catholic Newspaper of the Diocese of St. Cloud • February 22, 2007 |
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• Covered wagon trekker chats with students about life on the road • Saint Cloud Diocese to take part in global "wave" of prayer FAITH ALIVE |
Covered wagon trekker chats with students about life on the roadTrip planned from Montana to both coasts and, finally, north to Alaska
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer FOLEY — “Please ask the children to walk,” said Lee Crafton, 46, as he approached St. John’s Area School in Foley for a visit Feb. 12. He was concerned that a running stampede of students pouring from the school doors might spook the two draft horses that have been pulling Crafton and his covered wagon eastward across the United States since last summer. Lining up along the sidewalk just outside the school, the children eagerly chatted with Crafton and eyed the 12-year-old-horses who did, in fact, remain calm. Students peppered the wagoner with questions, such as “Where do you sleep?” and “What do you do with the horses when you stop?” And, where is he going?
Crafton, his horses and wagon are on the first leg of a clockwise circular journey around the perimeter of the continental United States. His wagon wheels began turning Aug. 9 in Montana after some wheels of adventure and destiny had been turning in his head. Crafton had been diagnosed with cancer, and decided he would go ahead and do something that he always wanted to do. After traveling eastward toward the East Coast, Crafton plans to head south, then west and finally north up the West Coast and through Canada, ending up in Alaska in 2010, although his route may change, he said. “It’s not where I’m going, it’s the getting there,” Crafton said in a Feb. 12 interview with the St. Cloud Visitor. Friendship that has endured more than 75 years is full of memories and meaning by Sue Schulzetenberg
“He had quite a time driving that team over the snowbanks,” Willard said. “He had to unhook the horses from the sled and walk them over and hook up again. He had to go about three or four or five miles to meet the doctor. The doctor could only get a certain distance from Watkins out this way. ... The doctor was here within an hour. Within a half hour after he was here, Dianne was born,” Willard said. St. Cloud Diocese to take part in global ‘wave’ of prayer by Joseph Young Visitor Interim Editor ST. CLOUD — “The wave” used to be popular at sporting events, with sections of spectators taking turns standing up as one, flailing their arms and then sitting down as the section next to them rose, thereby creating an undulating effect that circled the stadium. Well, another wave — one created not by spectators but by prayerful participants — is scheduled for March 2. But the 2007 World Day of Prayer will not circle merely a stadium but will undulate over the whole world. And, some of those participants will be seated (and kneeling) within the central Minnesota “section” of the world known as the St. Cloud Diocese. World Day of Prayer (WDP) is a worldwide ecumenical movement of women who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the first Friday of March, according to the WDP United States Web site: www.wdpusa.org. Throughout the entire day, women (men are also welcome) collectively pray starting on the west side of the international date line at sunrise and ending on the east side at sunset. The prayers of people from 170 countries and regions follow the sun’s path around the globe. Four women involved in planning and carrying out the WDP liturgy in St. Cloud met at the St. Cloud Diocesan Mission Office Feb. 9 to compare notes and discuss progress. The St. Cloud service is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. March 2 at First United Methodist Church in St. Cloud. The women — Dolores Keech, a member of First United Methodist; Sheri Bitzan, a member of St. Benedict Parish in Avon; Wini Herda, a member of Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Big Lake; and Mission Office director Rosanne Fischer — said that churches in the St. Cloud area have been meeting for to prepare for the annual event. “Every year, World Day of Prayer has a theme,” Bitzan said. “The theme this year is ‘United under God’s tent (or mantle)’ ”
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About the • Saint Cloud Newspaper Archives • How to subscribe to the Saint Cloud Newspaper • Bishop John F Kinney • Other News Links Metro-area The new Mass schedule for St. Cloud metro-area parishes goes into effect the weekend of Jan. 13-14, 2007. Call your parishes if you have any questions about the schedule, or to see if the schedule has been revised. The Mass times are: • St. Mary’s Cathedral: • St. Augustine Parish • Newman Center Christ Church: • St. John Cantius: • St. Anthony • Holy Spirit • St. Joseph, Waite Park • St. Michael • St. Paul • St. Peter Beginning April 14-15 thru June 23-24, Mass at St. Peter’s will be at 4:30 p.m. Saturdays & 9 a.m. Sundays. Mass at St. Paul’s at 7:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Sundays. • St. Mary Help of Christians • St. Wendelin Parish • St. Joseph Parish in St. Joseph • St. Francis Xavier Parish • Sacred Heart Parish |
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