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Wednesday January 7th 2026
Searching ”“ A Serial Novelle Chapter 31: Towards the Unkown
By Patrick Cabello Hansel
We use the phrase “love birds” to describe a couple in love who seem to have grown wings of joy. They can be 18 or 19, 80 or 90. It is the quality of their embrace that lifts them off the ordinary ground. When Luz and Angel kissed in the deep snow at the cemetery, they were the love birds we love. When they got up and walked, hand in hand, toward their evil and their freedom, they were birds of a deeper, stranger love.
There are no paths in a cemetery after a heavy snow. There are only the stones and the white wilderness. They followed the flight of the hawk they had seen, and walked through knee deep snow towards the center of the holy ground. Without a word, they both stopped at the place they felt they had to.
“I don”'t see the hawk””el halcón,” Angel said.
“Nor do I.”
Then both of them looked up and to the east, and there on a bare branch rested the whitest bird they had ever seen.
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Manz Tage: The Journey Was Chosen
Friday”“Saturday, October 28”“29, 2011
A two-day conference on the life and ministry of Paul O Manz, Cantor at Mount Olive from 1946-1983, then at Christ Seminary/Seminex and St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chicago. Simultaneous to serving these specific communities, he served the Church at large around the world mostly with his memorable hymn festivals. What can we learn from these vast and profound experiences? How do we carry this ministry on?
Hymn FestivalÂ
Friday, 10/28: 7:30 pm.
“The Journey Was Chosen When Water was Poured” Mount Olive Cantorei, David Cherwien organist and director
PresentationsÂ
Saturday, 10/29
Victor Gebauer: “Twin Cities: Called to an Expanding World”
Mark Bangert: “Chicago: Fulfilling God”'s Calling”
Paul Westermeyer: “Cantor: the Lutheran Calling”
David Cherwien: Workshop on Liturgical Improvisation
Samuel Backman: Organ recital, music by Praetorius, Bruhns, Bach, Manz
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Ingebretsen”'s Saga: A Family, A Story, A Legacy in Food An East Lake Street Saga as told through a family history and a lot of food.
By Carsten Smith
“The project took nine months. I could have had a baby in that period, but a book is much easier to care for after gestation. I”'m glad I opted for the book,” says Anne Gillespie Lewis, author of Ingebretsen”'s Saga, which is now available at Ingebretsen”'s Scandinavian Gifts. The idea for the book had been percolating for years, but a chance conversation at the store with Julie Ingebretsen, the store manager, spurred Anne and Julie into making the book a reality.
Julie Ingebretsen had often wished for the time and opportunity to put some of the many recipes shared at the store into a book. There is rarely a staff meeting or a birthday or even an obscure holiday that passes at Ingebretsen”'s that staff members don”'t pull out the stops and bring food to share with their co-workers. Julie really wanted to have some of those recipes in writing.
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