Jeff Wilfahrt
June 16, 2011
Reflecting now on those loaves and fishes I am advocating, and I could be wrong, that the Christ parable holds the answer to our civil upset here in Minnesota about the marriage amendment
I was born and raised in a southern Minnesota community. My wife and I attended 12 years of Catholic parochial education. In those grade school years, as they were known then, we queued up with our classes and trotted across the street to daily mass, five days a week. In the Lenten season, it was Friday afternoon Stations of the Cross. And there, with the church window transoms open, a boy could smell the earth of spring and his mind would...
March 28, 2011
It’s time for us to join those who have been trying to no avail--contact your representatives; attend a peace rally; send an e-mail; start a letter writing campaign
The headline in The Washington Post March 2, 2011 read: “Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost his son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice.”
No truer words have been spoken. Until recently, I could stand on one side of that statement and hang my head in shame because it’s clear he was speaking to me. On February 27, 2011, Corporal Andrew Wilfarht, cousin to my husband, and son to Jeff and Lori Wilfahrt of Rosemount, Minn.,...
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