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Last week we sent home a letter to each of our registered parishioner households explaining our new Sunday Mass schedule. If you haven't received one yet, please let us know!

In order to accommodate increasing congregational sizes, we are adding an additional weekly Sunday morning Mass at 7:30am, and moving our current weekly 8:15am Sunday Mass to 9am.

With the end of the emergency mask orders in Minnesota and St. Paul, masks will no longer be required in the church. We have also now removed seating restrictions, to allow for more natural spacing.

I am pleased to announce that we will return to limited public Mass here at Nativity of Our Lord beginning on Wednesday, June 3. Sign-ups open Monday at 9am.

As we begin to prepare for public Masses once again, we are looking to create a special team of adult volunteers to make this possible — the Mass Volunteer Team. We will also need one Lector for each Mass.

The priests and parish leadership of Nativity of Our Lord are currently in ongoing discussions on when and how to re-open our liturgies to public assembly as soon as is possible in a safe and healthy way.

Our pastor, Fr. Patrick Hipwell, explains the difficult decision to suspend public Masses and Confessions and offers other updates on the parish's coronavirus response plan.

Due to increased concerns about the spread of the Coronavirus, we will be indefinitely suspending the sign of peace at all Masses.

Fr. Patrick Hipwell, Fr. Nick Hagen, and the parish staff would like to distribute a Christmas card at Christmas Mass this year, and we need your help!

Masses in need: Saturday at 5pm; and Sunday at 8:15am, 11am, and 5pm.

Fr. Patrick thanks parishioners for their perseverance through weather and transportation challenges. He also announces some changes in volunteer and staff leadership.

Beginning Monday, June 25 and continuing through Friday, August 28, the upper church will be closed for maintenance. The church maintenance project will include pew restoration, hardwood floor stripping and staining, and lighting updates.

Our priests will be away Monday afternoon through Thursday morning.