This week, before our Wednesday Lenten service, I had the privilege of enjoying dinner with my congregation, family style in our basement fellowship hall, just as it was prescribed somewhere in the book of Leviticus, or one of those, that Lutherans shall do every Wednesday during Lent for ...

CCW scholarships available The New Ulm Diocesan CCW Scholarship Program offers monies for education of faith and spiritual growth to our CCW groups and parishioners who are volunteers or employees involved in various parish ministries. These scholarships may be used for workshops, institutes, ...

Last week I had the opportunity to offer a thank you more than 30 years overdue. I was invited back to my hometown to present a lifetime legacy award to a teacher who played a pivotal role in me making it through high school, and successfully so. It all was a surprise: her being the ...

Friends, this week my prayer for you is that you feel the Holy Spirit’s peace descend upon you. I found myself this week in need of seeking the same thing. … Peace, but not just the peace that I find for myself in a walk with the dogs or hiding away with an engaging book. No, what I was ...

CDA meeting Monday The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court #1291 will be having their meeting in Carlin Hall after the 5:30 p.m. Mass Monday at Holy Redeemer. They are having their wine, cheese and cracker party. St. Mary’s youth group chili and soup supper Feb. 11 St. Mary’s ...

Meagan Quinn doesn’t consider herself to be a crazy, radical, leftie activist. The 32-year-old St. Paul resident and small business owner, said that wanting her most vulnerable neighbors to have access to food, an assurance of their human rights and an assumption their loved ones aren’t ...