Holy Spirit & Good Shepherd

After a full morning in Lander with the Wyoming Catholic College Community, Mark and I made our way over the South Pass to the Holy Spirit Catholic Community in Rock Springs.  The trip over South Pass was uneventful, but the cloud cover was very low with occasional snow and rain.  Read more…

Historic Commencement

It has been quite an emotional, historic weekend in Lander, Wyoming, as the Wyoming Catholic College celebrated its first graduation.  What began as a dream and entailed much faith, hard work, courage and  hope in the future reached a dramatic result today.  Those who came in the Fall of 2007 Read more…

Cody Confirmation & More

The final Confirmation “run” of the season is underway.  Once again, a good friend from Indiana has come out to spend some time and help with the driving.  We left Cheyenne on Tuesday, and will be on the road until next Friday. Yesterday morning, I had a nice visit with Read more…

Living And Giving In Christ

Last weekend, we began our annual diocesan appeal, renamed this year, Living and Giving in Christ; Unity Through Diocesan Ministries. We felt a change of name was necessary to more appropriately capture the nature of the appeal, namely, to fund the ministries provided by the Diocese of Cheyenne. Our Development Read more…

Happy Mother’s Day!

To all the mom’s this Mother’s Day, may God bless you bunches!  I was struck by today’s Gospel, the famous Road to Emmaus story of the similarity between the Church and mothers.  We see the two disciples walking along after the Resurrection, “looking downcast”, when the Risen Jesus approaches. After Read more…

Rite of Lector

This weekend our permanent deacon candidates are in Casper for their monthly formation program.  Today, they took the next formal step in their journey towards ordination as permanent deacons next May. Today, they were formally installed as lectors.  The Holy Scriptures play a foundational role in our life as Catholics.  Read more…

Spring Turkey Success

God is good and His creation is awesome!  It was a beautiful morning along the Laramie Range, near Wheatland.  The temps were in the low 50’s and there was very little wind, which is very unusual for this area!  The mountains still hold quite a bit of snowpack, so the viewing Read more…

Full Week

The second round of 2011 Confirmations is in full swing, with a few other stops thrown in for good measure. As already posted, I spent Saturday evening with the Knights of Columbus in Casper. Sunday evening, we had the Confirmation Mass for all of Casper and Douglas, I regret I Read more…