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First Lutheran receives LSS Servant of Christ Award Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota has recognized First Lutheran Church in Marshall as the 2026 LSS Servant of Christ Award recipient for the Southwestern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.   The LSS Servant of Christ Award honors congregations that are leaders in social ministry outreach or have contributed to addressing special needs in their community in extraordinary ways. The award is extended to one congregation in each of the six Minnesota synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of ...

What’s new with your neighbors? Would you know?

Oh, I read the headlines just like everyone else does. I hear the news reports about the epic rise in our feelings of loneliness, our move toward isolationism for fear of our neighbor, that our distrust in anyone unlike us is skyrocketing. I don’t doubt the data, nor the conclusions the ...

NU Diocese celebrates Feast of Corpus Christi

NEW ULM — The Roman Catholic Diocese of New Ulm held its Corpus Christi Eucharist Procession Sunday. Members of the Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus, The Knights of Columbus and Bishop Chad W. Zielinski led the procession from Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm down State Street to ...

Stow the phone; pour yourself into your neighbor instead

As a kid, I dreaded going anywhere with Mom because inevitably she would find someone she’d connect with, and there would ensue a long conversation about things that did not entertain a youngster. Grocery store, post office, doctor’s office … didn’t matter. She found someone in which ...

Zielinski to lead Corpus Christi Eucharistic Procession through New Ulm Sunday

NEW ULM – The Most Rev. Chad W. Zielinski, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of New Ulm, will lead a Corpus Christi Eucharistic Procession beginning at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm and concluding at the Church of St. Mary. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi, celebrates Jesus Christ’s true presence in the Eucharist. During the procession, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried through the streets of New Ulm, providing a public witness of faith and devotion while inviting prayer for the Church, the ...