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• Sixth-graders experience ‘real life’ in mock city
• Speaker offers tips for those who are grieving during holidays
•TV Mass has served the diocese nearly 50 years
FAITH ALIVE
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Amy Casperson of the Office of Communications for the St. Cloud Diocese, producer of the TV Mass program every Tuesday evening. Before she even touches a camera each week, Casperson lines up the workers to ensure a quality production.
(Photo by Sue Schulzetenberg)
Choir director Becky Beyer (right, sitting at piano) and the choir from St. Edward Parish in Princeton rehearse prior to the taping of the TV Mass Nov. 14. (SCV photo by Joseph Young)
Sean Rebischke, a member of St. Michael Parish in St. Cloud, works hard at the audio board to give the TV Mass a good sound quality.
(Photo by Amy Casperson)
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Sixth-graders experience ‘real life’ in mock city
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Sixth-graders at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in St. Cloud and Sacred Heart School in Sauk Rapids took a city into their own hands on Nov. 7. And, as it turned out, the city was in pretty good hands.
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Sixth-graders from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in St. Cloud and Sacred Heart School in Sauk Rapids spend a day working at the snack shop in Exchange City. (Photo courtesy of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School) |
Students ran shops and a post office, operated courts and even elected a mayor for Exchange City, a program sponsored by Junior Achievement. Their time at the mock city, situated in a building in Maplewood, Minn., lasted only one day, but the students had been preparing for the hands-on, life-in-the-real-world experience for a month in advance in their classes.
Several other schools, including some in the St. Cloud Diocese, also participated in Exchange City at various times. The Exchange City program gives students a taste of what they might experience when they get jobs.
“I learned you can’t always get things right on the first try, and when things don’t work out, you’ve got to try to work them out and try to solve them,” said Jordan Carlson, a sixth-grader from Sacred Heart who sampled what it is like to be a bank vice president. Carlson said she wrote out the bills and needed to work with many customers when the other employees took breaks.
Speaker offers tips for those who are grieving during holidays
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD — Grieving people need to be gentle with themselves, said Elizabeth Cabalka, the speaker at Holiday Heartaches, a presentation sponsored by the St. Therese Center Nov. 12. Cabalka, of Annandale, spoke to an attentive crowd of 70-80 people at the annual holiday event.
Cabalka told the audience that although there are lots of “shoulds” associated with grieving, especially during the holidays, it is also true that people grieve in their own ways.
Whether the loss of a loved one was recent or years past, the pain of loss during holidays can be especially poignant because the joys shared with the loved one during those festive occasions have now ended, except for memories.
TV Mass has served the diocese
nearly 50 years
by Joseph Young
Visitor Interim Editor
ST. CLOUD — Decades before the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and its TV Mass were even a glint in Mother Angelica’s eye, the Communications Office of the St. Cloud Diocese was producing a TV Mass that was broadcast over central Minnesota’s grainy amber airwaves, providing spiritual nourishment to golden-aged and other people in nursing homes, hospitals, care centers and homes.
In 1959, Dwight Eisenhower was president, John XXIII was in his first full year as pope and the Minnesota Twins, Vikings, Timberwolves, Wild and even the North Stars did not yet exist. But, thanks to the St. Cloud Diocese’s Bureau of Information — which is what the Office of Communications was then called — a Sunday-morning Mass was born and began broadcasting, becoming alive and well and flickering in “living black-and-white” on television screens across central Minnesota.
It would take 23 more years before EWTN would begin broadcasting, in 1981.
The diocese’s TV Mass was originally produced live on Sunday mornings in a basement television studio in Alexandria. In its initial years, the Mass broadcast aired every other Sunday alternating with a religious news and education program also produced by the diocese.
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With a grin and a microphone, Father Chris Trussell prepares for a Mass in the Diocesan Pastoral Center Chapel in St. Cloud. Father Trussell is one of many volunteers to celebrate Mass for those throughout the diocese who like to watch it on TV.
(Photo by Amy Casperson) |
Since August of 2004, the Mass has been produced on tape on Tuesday evening at the Diocesan Pastoral Center Chapel in St. Cloud for broadcast the following Sunday. But for all of its 48 years, the TV Mass has been a steadfast friend and vital ministry to people of the diocese and beyond, especially to the homebound, shut-ins, nursing home residents and hospital patients.
Throughout the years, the dedication of scores of people — priests, choir members, lectors, eucharistic ministers, technicians and volunteers of all stripes — kept the diocese’s TV vital and strong.
No one has labored with more diligence in this “video vineyard” over the past 48 years than those who have assumed leadership roles at the Bureau of Information/Office of Communications, including Msgr. Daniel Taufen, the late Rosemary Borgert, Steve Gottwalt, and Amy Casperson.
TV MASS is aired on the following cable systems and diocesan nursing facilities: Call your local cable station if you want the Mass on in your area if it is not listed.
Mel-TV 3 - Airs 9:15 p.m., Sunday
Melrose, Meire Grove, Greenwald, St. Martin, Kimball, Eden Valley, Grey Eagle, Sauk Centre.
US Cable - 10:30 Sunday Mornings Channel 19 (EWTN)
Avon, Baldwin Township, Becker, Bethel, Blue Hill Township, Bradford, Braham, Cambridge, Castle Towers, Cedar, Center City, Chisago, Clear Lake and Township, Clearwater, Cold Spring, Columbus Township, Eden Valley, Foley, Forest Lake, Forest Lake Township, Foreston, Freeport, Harris, Haven Township, Holdingford, Isanti, Kimball, Lent, Lindstrom, Linwood, Livonia Township, May Township, Marine On St. Croix, Milaca, Mora, North Branch, Ogilvie, Palmer, Pierz, Pine City, Pine City Township, Pleasant Lake, Pokegema, Princeton, Richmond, Rockville, Royalton, Rush City, Rush Lake, Scandia Township, Shafer, Standford Township, Stacy, St. Augusta, St. Francis, St. Joseph, St. Joseph Township, St. Stephen, St. Wendel, Taylors Falls, Village Green, Watkins, Wyoming, Wyoming Township, Zimmerman.
US Cable subscribers can purchase a low-cost basic package that include Channel 19. Contact US Cable for more information. Includes eastern communities of the Diocese.
Charter Cable - Channel 12 & 14 10:30 Sunday Mornings
St. Cloud area and communities to the north and west (but not all Charter systems).
Albany, Albertville, Alexandria, Belle Prairie, Benson, Big Lake, Buffalo, Carlos, Chatham, Cokato, Dassel, Dayton, Delano, Dundas, Elk River, Emoise, Glenwood, Greenlake, Green Prairie, Harsan, Haven, Kandiyohi, Kirkhoven, Koochiching, Le Sauk, Little Falls, Maple Lake, Melrose, Minden, Montevideo, Monticello, Murdok, New London, Osakis, Otsego, Pennock, Pike Creek, Rockford, Sartell, Sauk Centre, Sauk Rapids, Spicer, St. Cloud, St. Joseph, St. Michael, Waite Park, Watertown, Willmar.
WRAC - Channel 18:
Airs on Wednesdays at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Sundays at 10:00 am
10,000 Homes in the area of Willmar. New London, Spicer, Kandyohi, Pennock and 5 area Townships.
Benton Cable - Channel 3 10:30 Sunday Mornings, Rice area
SCTV - Channel 19 - 10:30 Sunday Mornings
Sauk Centre, Melrose, Grey Eagle, St. Martin, New Munich, Greenwald, Meire Grove, Eden Valley, Watkins and Kimball.
Nursing Homes Facilities who Receive the TV Mass:
Belgrade Nursing Home, Belgrade
Good Shepherd Center, Sauk Rapids
Koronis Manor, Paynesville
Lutheran Care Center, Little Falls
Talahi Spiritual Care Center, St. Cloud
Unity Healthcare, Little Falls
Foley Nursing Center, Foley |
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