Fr. Rick Heilman, the creator and moderator of this site, is a priest in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin. Fr. Rick applauds the courageous work of his fellow priests, his Bishop, and the Holy Father in standing for the Truth in challenging times. Please join Fr. Rick in praying for the leaders of the Catholic Church.
July 9, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Very glad to see your blogging, Fr. Rick! I really look forward to reading your thoughts and joining with you in praying for our diocese, priests, and seminarians. Please pray for us young adults in downtown Madison parishes as we work to share Christ’s love in our neighborhood, city, and world!
July 11, 2007 at 8:03 am
Greetings from the Diocese of La Crosse, Father. I found you through Sheila Liaugminas’ blog, and I’ve linked to you on my blog — The Catholic Beat. Please consider reciprocating!
July 15, 2007 at 10:25 am
Dear Fr. Rick,
First of all I praise God for have giving you the inspiration to create this blog for such a great and blessed cause.
Secondly I would like to tell you that, the comment ( your seeds) that you made regarding the Novena of Mary Undoer of Knots, gave many fruits and tenths of people has visited our web site and ordered the Novena. This demonstartes that a lot of people are visiting Mary’s Anawin site… Congratulations.
We are responsible to make the devotion known in US and Canada, and as a lay people, we need the support from all Priests to bring the word of Christ to other people trough the hands of Our Holy Mother.
Fr. Rick, thank you very much again and may Virgin Mary bless and protect you with her mantle of love.
Edson Bosetti
Mary Undoer of Knots
(905) 495-4614
March 25, 2008 at 8:47 am
Fr. Rick! I had no idea you were a blogger – this is awesome
Feeling your fellowship during these days of the Divine Mercy novena!
God Bless!
In His Mercy, Monica
May 11, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I was glad to meet you 3 weeks ago, Fr. Rick. Tell the folks from Medford “hi” at the next meeting of your Life in the Spirit seminar. Hope you and Fr. Gerard will stay in touch. God bless.
July 1, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Fr. Rick,
I have heard you on Relevant Radio. I am going to recommend to our parish that we arrange to come have you as a guest speaker. Do you do that? We need more priests like you! I pray the rosary for vocations often.
God bless,
Miriam from Beloit — St. Jude parish
December 28, 2008 at 10:49 am
I’d like to offer this story on my application that brings the prayer on iPhone.
I believe that prayer is Christian and Catholic from spreading. You wonder why you can publish the news and if you can spread it to your friends on the blog.
thanks
fr. Paolo Padrini
Sacred texts: Vatican embraces iTunes prayer book
5 days ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is endorsing new technology that brings the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones.
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications is embracing the iBreviary, an iTunes application created by a technologically savvy Italian priest, the Rev. Paolo Padrini, and an Italian Web designer.
The application includes the Breviary prayer book — in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin and, in the near future, Portuguese and German. Another section includes the prayers of the daily Mass, and a third contains various other prayers.
After a free trial period in which the iBreviary was downloaded approximately 10,000 times in Italy, an official version was released earlier this month, Padrini said.
The application costs euro0.79 ($1.10), while upgrades will be free. Padrini’s proceeds are going to charity.
Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, praised the new application Monday, saying the Church “is learning to use the new technologies primarily as a tool or as a mean of evangelizing, as a way of being able to share its own message with the world.”
Pope Benedict XVI, a classical music lover who was reportedly given an iPod in 2006, has sought to reach out to young people through new media. During last summer’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, he sent out mobile phone text messages citing scripture to thousands of registered pilgrims — signed with the tagline “BXVI.”
May 20, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Hello Fr. Heilman,
I am a Canadian seminarian studying for the diocesan priesthood here in Canada. I just came across your website/blog while doing a search on Google. I had to send you a comment, to let you know how much I appreciate the articles (and the pictures) on your blog. It’s truly a blessing to find the blog of a faithful Catholic priest. Your fidelity to the Magisterium and to the Church is truly commendable. It inspires me as I continue on my path towards the Sacred Priesthood.
God bless you and your readers!
July 14, 2009 at 8:32 am
Dear Father Rick-I read in today’s obits that Peter Scholtes died. It said see pscholtes.com. I just checked. He had left the priesthood and married a woman who left the convent when I knew him. The following link mentions he had been a priest:http://management.curiouscatblog.net/. I didn’t know if you knew about the song he wrote, which is also mentioned in that link.
September 6, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Hey, Fr. Heilman, I just found your blog today by accident from a link on another Catholic Website. I’ve been reading it for a couple of hours today before I went to the “about” page and found out it’s you, a local priest.
I’m a parishioner at Holy Redeemer of the Cathedral Parish in Madison, and my son and I have been to some of your homilies.
Wonderful Website and blog.
God bless,
Diana
November 2, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Awesome blog. I am bookmarking this one. I am a new Catholic blogger from Colorado getting my own blog off the ground, hope you can check it out. Blessings to your dioceses from the Archdiocese of Denver!
Seth J. DeMoor
sjdemoor.wordpress.com