On, Wisconsin
Archbishop to say Mass to honor Solanus Casey
“Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan will preside at a community Mass honoring the late Father Solanus Casey - a Capuchin friar from Wisconsin whose supporters hope he will become the first native-born male saint in the United States - at 4 p.m. July 28. The liturgy will be held in Milwaukee's St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1927 N. 4th St., where Casey was ordained in 1904.”
I am fascinated by Solanus Casey. And a little disturbed. A Venerable Wisconsinite shifts the onus of personal sanctity back to the rest of us. Oh, saints aren’t only from foreign places in long ago times.
Of course, we could also apply the “second bomb on the airplane” rule. You know, what are the chances of two saintly folks from Wisconsin? Tell me it wouldn’t be easier if the spiritual life worked that way.

We, thy loyal sons and daughters,
Hail thee, good and great.
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
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"Forward", our motto
God will give thee might!"