• Family Corner: May
    Family Corner: May
    May 6, 2025
    by Family Corner Team
    We are still celebrating Easter, and we can continue to focus on making Sundays especially celebratory in our homes. Click here for reflections on continuing to live Easter and to celebrate this beautiful month traditionally dedicated to Mary, our Mother.
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  • Family Corner: Divine Mercy Sunday, Easter Season
    Family Corner: Divine Mercy Sunday, Easter Season
    April 23, 2025
    by Family Corner Team
    We Catholics celebrate Easter with enthusiasm, and we celebrate all the way to Pentecost. Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a special feast within this season during which we claim our inheritance of joy. Click here for suggestions about living this Easter season with prayer, feasting, and blessed action.
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  • Returning to Perpetual Adoration
    Returning to Perpetual Adoration
    March 28, 2025
    by Fr. John Paul Erickson, Parochial Vical
    Fr. Erickson offers a vision for returning to 24/7 Perpetual Adoration in this ongoing Eucharistic Revival, as well as an invitation for each of us to commit to an hour.
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  • Update: Eucharistic Glory Book and Consecration
    Update: Eucharistic Glory Book and Consecration
    March 11, 2025
    by Synod Leadership Team
    For those who missed the first Eucharistic Consecration, there will be another opportunity on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27. We invite you to read the Matthew Kelly’s "33 Days to Eucharistic Glory" daily on your own beginning March 26 and to click the link above to sign up.
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  • Pray for Our Men on Retreat
    Pray for Our Men on Retreat
    February 15, 2025
    by Discipleship Office
    Please pray for the 32 men attending our Men's Retreat next weekend on Lake Mille Lacs. May they be bold in their own prayers, and may they each listen to God's voice for His answers and direction. Thank you!
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  • Men's Retreat Priority Deadline: January 31
    Men's Retreat Priority Deadline: January 31
    January 24, 2025
    by Communications Office
    Friday, January 31 is the priority deadline for room reservations at our Men’s retreat February 21-23. Don’t miss your chance to join in fellowship and faith with Fr. Tollefson at Eddy’s Lake Mille Lacs Resort!
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  • Advent: How to get ready to meet your Maker
    Advent: How to get ready to meet your Maker
    November 27, 2024
    by Isaac Huss, Communications Director
    By understanding the meaning of Advent and the Church’s intent for its celebration, Catholics can dispose themselves to the grace of the blessed time between now and Christmas.
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  • Advent Days of Recollection
    Advent Days of Recollection
    November 23, 2024
    The entire parish and community is invited to three Advent Days of Recollection as we introduce the mission and vision of our pastor, Fr. Rolf Tollefson, in the new liturgical year and Synod Year 2.
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  • Intercessors Wanted
    Intercessors Wanted
    October 9, 2024
    by Communications Office
    We are looking for volunteers to pray a rosary before the Blessed Sacrament for the repose of the souls of our faithfully, and for the comfort and healing of their families.
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  • "Oops…"
    August 16, 2024
    by Fr. John Paul Erickson, Parochial Vical
    Fr. Erickson, aka "The Newbie," tells the tale of his run-in with our not-so-straightforward Adoration schedule, and offers an invitation and a challenge to return to Perpetual Adoration: 24/7.
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  • 2024 Spirit of Martha Award Winners
    2024 Spirit of Martha Award Winners
    June 21, 2024
    by Communications Office
    This year, Nativity Council of Catholic Women instead honored two women: Mary Kay O’Rourke (pictured) and (posthumously) Bette Hoffman, co-chairs of the Prayer Line for many, many years.
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  • Adoration Expands to Thursdays
    Adoration Expands to Thursdays
    April 19, 2024
    by Communications Office
    Adoration will expand to include Thursdays from 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, beginning this Thursday, April 25. Thank you to all who volunteered to make it possible!
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  • Fr. Duffert's New Assignment, Replacement Announced
    Fr. Duffert's New Assignment, Replacement Announced
    April 18, 2024
    by Fr. Rolf Tollefson, Pastor
    Fr. Bill Duffert will lead Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bloomington beginning July 1, and Fr. John Paul Erickson will take over as Parochial Vicar (Associate Pastor) on July 20.
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  • Lenten Videos 1-7 Now Available
    Lenten Videos 1-7 Now Available
    March 14, 2024
    by Synod Committee
    Videos are being viewed in small group meetings and are now also available for anyone else who wants to learn about prayer — whether they're brand new to an intentional prayer life, or seasoned vets.
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  • Fr. Tollefson's Lenten Video Series: Prayer
    Fr. Tollefson's Lenten Video Series: Prayer
    February 3, 2024
    by Synod Executive Team
    Here is the plan for the entire Lenten Series on Prayer from our Pastor, Fr. Rolf Tollefson. Videos will viewed in small group meetings and will also be available for anyone else who wants to learn about prayer — whether they're brand new to an intentional prayer life, or seasoned vets.
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  • Small Group Sign-Up Update
    Small Group Sign-Up Update
    January 26, 2024
    by Randall McClure, Synod Leadership Team
    In the first three days of online sign-up over 170 of you signed up for 27 different small groups, filling many of them. We'd particularly like more men and more School parents sign up. Registration will close January 31.
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  • Welcome to Small Groups!
    Welcome to Small Groups!
    January 12, 2024
    by Fr. Rolf Tollefson, Pastor
    Archbishop Hebda hopes every parishioner in every parish will eventually be in some kind of small group within the parish. Why not begin with us this Lent?
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  • Synod Small Groups are Coming
    Synod Small Groups are Coming
    July 7, 2023
    by Synod Committee
    To support this initiative, we would like to identify those with the experience or the gifts needed to lead small groups starting in Lent and invite them to a training series to be held this fall.
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  • No Adoration, Parish Office Closed Due to Storm
    No Adoration, Parish Office Closed Due to Storm
    February 22, 2023
    by Communications Office
    Adoration will be suspended today through Friday, and the parish office will be closed Thursday and Friday due to inclement weather.
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  • Synod 2022 Update
    Synod 2022 Update
    May 21, 2022
    by Synod Committee
    Archbishop Hebda is asking all Catholics to pray in preparation for the upcoming Synod Assembly on Pentecost weekend -- click here for more information as well as the Holy Spirit Novena prayers.
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