I love the gospels’ regular use of seeds as metaphors because so much of our faith life is all about acting on belief alone, hoping that one day those actions will bear fruit. Blind faith, some would call it. However, I like to believe that living this way is the definition of hope! On ...

Pet blessing Oct. 5 The Little Portion Secular Franciscans of the Marshall area are sponsoring a “Blessing of the Animals” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct.5,i n the parking lot of Holy Redeemer Church, Marshall. All animals and their favorite people are welcome. The Secular Franciscan Order is an ...

A little imagination theater … confirmation style. “Pastor, is it OK to hate certain people?” a struggling confirmation student asks. “That’s a heavy question,” I reply. “Can you first tell me why you’re asking?” “You’ve taught us that Jesus tells us to love our ...

My heavens, what a difficult couple of weeks it’s been. Amen? The Charlie Kirk assassination dropped a match into what was already a box of incendiary material that was passing as coexistence in our society. Seemingly, now even more of us are willing to draw ideological lines in the sand, ...

Cinnamon roll fundraiser Sunday The Catholic Daughters are have a fresh cinnamon rolls fundraiser this Sunday at Holy Redeemer Church. Rolls will be available for sale after the 8 a.m. Mass and the 10 a.m. Mass. Blue Mass Sept. 29 in New Ulm Bishop Chad Zielinski will celebrate a Blue Mass ...

A cautionary tale for our time … This week, I arrived early to a coffee shop for a meeting. Already coming from another meeting, it didn’t make sense to go to the shelter, only to backtrack 30 minutes later. So there I was, answering an infinite string of emails, with a good coffee and ...