We are encouraged to mark the fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, with joyful celebrations in our homes. Laetare means rejoice in Latin, and Family Corner this week will help us to look forward in faith to the joy of the Resurrection.

Almsgiving is one of our main practices during Lent. Family Corner this week will focus on ways we can work together in the family and parish to give to others.

Every year, March 19 calls for the celebration of the Solemn Feast of Saint Joseph. It is the perfect day to relax our Lenten sacrificial offerings as a way of honoring the love and leadership of the spouse of Our Lady and foster father of Our Lord. Click the link above for ideas about how to celebrate!

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.

Lent provides a chance to go deeper: both giving and giving up. Learning and praying together as a family enhances simpler meals. Lent coincides with lengthening days, enriching our patient waiting and preparing. Click for ideas to pray, eat, and work together.

Why does the priest sometimes wear green and sometimes white? What do the seasons of the Church have to do with our daily lives? All this and more in The Family Corner, a new feature where we’ll share ways to bring the liturgical seasons of the Church into our families and homes in simple, accessible, kid-friendly ways.

Small groups for Lent 2025 will begin the first full week of Lent on Sunday, March 9. Sign-ups for open Lenten small groups will begin on Sunday, February 16.

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!

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!

There’s rich irony in the pastor of a church called Nativity missing Christmas liturgies in his first year on the job. But as a believing Catholic Christian, I’m inclined to look for God’s hand moving amidst the seemingly random occurrences in our lives.

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.

Sign up here for the weekly Heart of the Revival newsletter to receive Bishop Andrew Cozzens' weekly Gospel reflections as we prepare our hearts for Christmas.

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.

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.

We would like all volunteers who wish to serve in the upcoming liturgical year — whether you're brand new or a longtime veteran — to be (re-)trained to learn the latest standards from Fr. Erickson, our new Director of Liturgy. Click the headline above for more information.

Now is the perfect time, as we have several rehearsals before we begin singing at the 11:00 AM Mass. No experience (or auditions) necessary!

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.

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.

My name is Ian Willnerd, and I am Nativity of Our Lord’s teaching parish seminarian. Throughout my ongoing four years of theology at the St. Paul seminary, I will be learning about parish ministry from Fr. Tollefson right here at Nativity. 

I could not be more excited to serve you as your next Associate Pastor, under the leadership of Fr. Rolf Tollefson, a priest I have admired and enjoyed for nearly two decades.