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Greetings to you in the healing, hope and joy that we can only find in the Risen Lord! Hallelujah! 

Bishop Daniel Felton, joined by many of the clergy and faithful of the Duluth Diocese, celebrated a Memorial Mass March 4 at a packed Resurrection Church in Eveleth for the late Bishop Peter Muhich of the Diocese of Rapid City, S.D.

We can prove in a philosophical way that there is a God, a First Cause and sustainer of all that exists. The First Vatican Council proclaimed this fact: “God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason, through the things that he created” (Dei Filius 2). 

I readily admit that I am not very good at giving praise to people. It is very important to affirm a job well done, especially if you are in a position of management. If any of my parish or school staff read this column, they would probably concur; I need to work on that a little more, because people should be affirmed when the job is indeed well done. 

Part way through Holy Saturday, anticipating the glorious liturgy in which I had the privilege to sing the beautiful Exultet, it occurred to me: This year’s Easter Vigil was, liturgically, the 20th anniversary of when I was received into full communion with the Catholic Church, along with my wife and my oldest daughter — then an infant, now an undergrad — who was baptized that night.

On a Friday evening around 7 p.m., I observed young men exiting their cars. As they reached for their suit coats from the back of their vehicles, I saw them quickly helping each other, fixing ties, adjusting collars, and straightening suit coats. Shortly after that, other cars pulled up, and some young ladies in long dresses (exquisite and likely expensive) stepped out of their vehicles.