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Discipleship Encouraged at Pentecost, Pentecost Masses Seminarians Anticipate Renovations to Immaculate Heart of Mary Vigil WINONA--Bishop John Quinn celebrated
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the renovations, which focuses on Kelly Hall, the seminary's original structure built in 1950. In addition to the kitchen remodeling, phase one includes updates to the plumbing, heating, ventilation, and electricity of the building, and also expansion of office and fellowship spaces. "With the renovation, we'll really be able to engage in fraternity more," said Daniel Hammer, another seminarian.
Pentecost Vigil Mass at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Winona and the Diocesan Pentecost Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Rochester on June 3 and June 4, respectively. The Vigil Mass included scriptual readings in French, Italian, German, Spanish and English, as well as testimony from representatives of ecclesiastical groups, as parishioners prayed for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Some notable groups present at the Vigil Mass were the Neocatechumenal Way; the Communion and Liberation movement; the St. Vincent de Paul Society; St. Paul Street Evangelization; the Presidio movement; Teams of Our Lady; Lay Carmelites; Benedictine Oblates; and the Diocese of Winona's Institute of Lay Formation, whose 2017 class was commissioned and received certificates at the end of the liturgy. "This is one of those days when we're allowed to see the work of the Holy Spirit," said Bishop Quinn as he recognized the groups. In his homily, Bishop Quinn recalled the Apostles who hid behind locked doors at the first Pentecost. "Without the Holy Spirit, and the flame of that Holy Spirit, how would those doors have ever gotten open?" he asked.
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Bishop John M. Quinn (center) and seminarians Daniel Hammer (left) and Adam Worm (right) discuss renovations outside Kelly Hall on May 5, 2017.
WINONA--One thing that excites Adam Worm, a seminarian at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary, about moving back into Kelly Hall in the fall is that he will return to a more spacious kitchen. "It was always kind of a wrestling match to get breakfast in the morning and get to class on time," he said in a May 5 interview at the seminary regarding the renovations. The kitchen is just one area to be improved by phase one of
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