IN THIS ISSUE ...
Visitor Stories:
• Rally encourages youths to be like ‘Jesus the rock star’
• ‘Suds and Salvation’ quenches spiritual thirst
•Missioner responded to Latin Americans’ poverty, faith
• Stone Soup and Family Tradition
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 St. Cloud Diocesan youth fill the floor to dance to the Cheer Up Charlie band. The band members were the keynote speakers for the youth rally and performed a concert for the youths. (SCV photos by Sue Schulzetenberg)
 Shelbi Cowin, Kirsti Paul and Hailey Ostby, all of St. Mary Parish in Mora, dress up as rock stars. The youths had the opportunity to dress up as rock stars and pose for a photo during an activity at the youth rally.
 Lisa Sullivan learned to play the cuatro, a traditional Venezuelan instrument, in her early years as a Maryknoll missioner. Teaching children to play and then pass it on became “an amazing project that has reached over 1,000 kids.” She played “The Right to Live in Peace” by Victor Hara, a Chilean artist who was murdered for his lyrics, Nov. 13 at the Diocesan Mission Office. (SCV photo by Sophie Schottler)
Marie McConnell
Marie surrounded by a “bevy” of her beautiful nieces and nephews in the early 1960s
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Rally encourages youths to be like ‘Jesus the rock star’
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
COLLEGEVILLE — A weltering sea of youths wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words “I wanna be a rockstar!” surged and danced to the beat of a rock band.
The ninth-through-twelfth-graders filled the gym floor below the stage to dance to the next song from the Cheer Up Charlie band, which played Christian songs with a rock beat accompanied by a light show.
Cheer Up Charlie band members were also the keynote speakers for the 18th annual St. Cloud Diocesan Senior High Youth Rally Nov. 19 at St. John’s University in Collegeville. About 650 youths from throughout the diocese participated.
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| Youths become human foosball players in a life-size foosball game, one of the rally’s recreational activities. (SCV photos by Sue Schulzetenberg) |
A youth extends her arms in prayer along with Bishop John Kinney during Mass. Father Greg Mastey, left, and Deacon Vern Schmitz pray alongside the bishop. |
The rally’s theme was “I Wanna Be a Rockstar.” Youths danced, sang, listened, learned and participated in activities with the overarching theme of becoming more like Christ, the “true rockstar.”
Cheer Up Charlie members contrasted an empty life with addictive habits versus a full life with Jesus. They talked about rock stars with addiction problems that are “missing something.”
‘Suds and Salvation’ quenches spiritual thirst
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD — In efforts to reach young adult Catholics, a group tentatively called the “Suds and Salvation” team is organizing a series of gatherings to bring faith into a social setting for 20- and 30-somethings. These “Suds” are not the kind that cleanse clothes — they’re the kind that quench thirsts.
The series called, “Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? ” begins 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at O’Hara’s Brew Pub and Restaurant in St. Cloud.
“I hope that we’ll reach young adults; it’s a way of evangelization,” said Mike Dorsey, a team member of the group.
The Suds and Salvation group is sponsored through ChristSeed, a coalition of Catholic lay ministers and clergy from St. Cloud area parishes, according to a press release. Each session in the “Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?” will consist of a brief talk, a time to reflect, a time to ask questions and a time to socialize, Dorsey said.
Additional series of talks may take place in 2007.
Missioner responded to Latin Americans’ poverty, faith
by Sophie Schottler
Visitor Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD – The diocese of St. Cloud welcomed a special guest speaker Nov. 13 at the Diocesan Mission Office. Lisa Sullivan is the Latin America coordinator for the School of the Americas’ (SOA) Watch and has been involved as a Maryknoll missioner, mainly in Bolivia and Venezuela for the past 30 years.
Sullivan’s missionary service is well known in the St. Cloud Diocese because she has led missioners who have served in Maracay, Venezuela, with which the St. Cloud Diocese has been in partnership since 1969. Before Sullivan arrived for her afternoon speech at the Mission Office, many “groupies” were gathered and shared their ties to missionary activity.
Alice Stern and Chris Gall, members of St. Peter Parish in St. Cloud, sew for the St. Barbara Mission Group at their parish.
“Our mission group makes curtains, children’s clothing, bibs and other things. We bring them to the Mission Office and they send them down to Venezuela,” Stern said.
Scott Crumb is the youth minister in Glenwood, a town the delegation visited on their tour of the St. Cloud Diocese Oct. 18-28
Stone Soup and Family Tradition
by Carol Jessen-Klixbull
Visitor Staff Writer
There is a popular European folktale that has been told for centuries. The legend, simply called Stone Soup, is the tale of two travelers on a pilgrimage. At the end of a long day’s journey they arrive hungry and tired at an impoverished, medieval village. As they rest by the side of the road, one of them builds a small fire upon which he places a large pot. The other fills the pot with water drawn from the town’s well and places a stone in their well-seasoned cooking vessel.
As the men sit by the fire and bring their “stone soup” to a boil, inquisitive townsfolk whose curiosity is piqued happen by to casually interact with the “strangers.” The visitors turn out to be quite entertaining and friendly, sharing stories about their journey and people they have met along the way.
Eventually, a young boy asks them, “Pray thee, why are you boiling a stone?” And, one of the travelers replied, “So that we may eat stone soup.”
“It must be terribly bland,” said an old woman, “but I have a cabbage, which will add some flavor.”
“And, I have some carrots, which will add color,” said another villager.
“I have potatoes,” another one offered. And, on it went — little contributions by several of the townspeople led to the creation of a hearty stew. There was enough of the savory concoction for the entire village to dine that evening with the weary pilgrims. And, as they all ate and drank together, they shared their tales, talents and warm camaraderie in the spirit of goodwill.
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Belgrade Nursing Home, Belgrade
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