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Public Mass has resumed. Scroll down for more information.
Click here to read Fr. Zehren's letter.
Click here to read Mass protocols.
Read Archbishop Hebda's letter (5/23/20) on the return to Public Masses.
Mass Times
Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM
Saturday: 5:00 PM
Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM
Online Weekend Mass
Click here to watch Daily Mass from Bishop Barron's Chapel.
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Parish Office Hours
The Parish Office will be open from 8:00 AM - Noon, Monday - Friday. The office doors will remain locked through the day. Please ring the doorbell for assistance. Staff will continue to work remotely as much as possible. If you leave a message between 8 AM and 4 PM Monday - Friday, a staff member will get back to you. If it is an emergency, please call 763-425-2210 and press 1 to connect to our Emergency Call center.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Monday-Friday: 7:30 AM
Saturday: 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Adoration
Perpetual Adoration in our Chapel has resumed. Due to social distancing recommendations, we are asking that all regularly scheduled adorers use the chapel while those who are not scheduled continue to pray in the Sanctuary between 7 AM – 4:30 PM.
Please know that we welcome new adorers to take one of the below open hours! Contact JoAnne Newman at 763-420-4089.
Sunday: 5 am, 12 Noon
Monday: 7 am, 6 pm
Tuesday: 7 am
Wednesday: 8 am, Noon,11 pm
Friday: 11 am, 2 pm, 6 pm
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RCIA News
Welcome to this year's RCIA class on their initiation/reception into the Catholic Church on May 31 and June 3. Please continue to keep them in your prayers and welcome them into our parish family--Cate Dahlberg, Scott Hill, Susan Hill, Sarah Lenshek, MacKenzie McCullum and Andy Schwartz. Congratulations to Calvin and Grant Lenshek who also made their First Communion. Thank you to our RCIA sponsors, catechists, dismissal facilitators, Fr. Zehren, Fr. Zipp, and Deacon Larry.
God bless you all,
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A Message from Fr. Zehren
When I was a boy, we had a family cat. She would sit by the back door and stare at it longingly as if she wanted to go outside. Then, when I opened the door for her to go out, she would tense up as if she could not move. I would nudge her with my foot, but she seemed frozen in the decision. Should she stay in or go out?
Much of the world faces the same dilemma now as doors are starting to open and the shutdown is gradually being lifted. Up until recently, our choices have been very restricted. Most doors were closed to us and we could neither come in nor go out no matter how much we wanted to. Now, the moral burden is shifting back to us individuals.
It truly is a blessed moment. God delights to see us squirm with tricky moral choices. Heaven comes to our aid as we roll up our spiritual sleeves and dig deeper into prayer and discernment of what is best. Competing goods, values, and consequences are measured and weighed. We find ourselves exercising virtues we haven’t used in a long time. Through it all we grow as more mature moral agents.
I don’t deny that I have muttered a bit in these past months at “the forces that be” for not letting me do some of the things I’ve wanted to do. Now, we are given a little more freedom to come in and go out – or not. I pray that Holy Wisdom will show us the way as each of us does some spiritual and practical self-assessment. Ready or not! It’s between you and God – but for the greater glory of us all.
Fr. Dennis Zehren
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