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Thank you for your patience as we work to restore the dedicated air conditioning unit in the Adoration Chapel. Additionally, our tall candlesticks behind the altar and beside the tabernacle are being refurbished, thanks to the NCCW.

Now, 50 days after Easter Sunday, we mark the close of the Easter season with the remarkable solemnity of Pentecost. Click here for reflections on how we can welcome the descent of the Holy Spirit into our homes and families and communities by meaningfully celebrating this feast.

We now need three new weekly committed Adorers, at 11am Wednesday and 6pm and 7pm Thursday. Can you help?

Each parish is sending their pastor and two lay delegates to the 2025 Archdiocesan Synod Assembly; Theme updates for Years 3-4; Invitation to pray Holy Spirit Novena culminating on Pentecost (June 7).

Continuing the impact of the four regional pilgrimages last year, the new St. Katherine Drexel route this year covers Indianapolis through the midwest, south, and west towards San Diego and Los Angeles. Frances Webber, one of our parishioners who attended the National Eucharistic Congress last July, will accompany our Eucharistic Lord across the country this year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Blessed Sacrament will be reposed at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, March 4. Adoration will resume at 9:00 AM on Thursday, March 6.

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!

The city of St. Paul has declared a Snow Emergency beginning at 9:00 PM tonight.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.