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Location: University of St. Thomas Hearts on Fire Retreat All young adults are welcome to this summer retreat on Saturday, June 24 sponsored by St. Thomas’ Campus Ministry and coordinated by a group of Jesuits, including Fr. Joe Laramie, director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network and one of the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival preachers. Cost: […]

Sacraments. Formation. A place to call home.  “The parish is where the Church lives…Parishes are the home of the Christian community; they are the heart of the Church.” USCCB 1993 The place where it all comes together: faith, community, formation, the sacraments. We as Catholics must thrive in our parishes.  Whether it’s close to home, […]

 “We wouldn’t recognize that love. It might look like hate. It would be enough to scare us—God’s love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn’t it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he […]

Our mission is to serve Christ through softball, service, and spiritual events. CSG is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) group made up of hundreds of active members (most of whom are Catholic) who play coed softball, hang out, and volunteer their service and time together all year long. Softball seasons are played in Little Canada, Minnesota in […]

Editors note: This is the very first post of John’s new column “How to Catholic”. A few times a month, John will be answering the simple and not-so-simple questions his youth group at St. Vincent DePaul asks him. Welcome everyone to the teenager’s brain. Let’s be honest, the thought of that can be a little […]

The last several days have been challenging indeed for all in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and beyond as we face a national reckoning with the pernicious effects of persistent racial injustice and attendant social unrest. Amid the challenges, sadness and tumult, there have also been signs of faith, hope and generosity which speak to our […]

I know that when I was thinking about going to seminary, I had no idea what seminarians do all day long. In my head, they prayed exactly fifteen hours every day and read big, dusty, old books. So, after getting questions from all sorts of different people about what I actually do all day long, […]

Location: St. Albert the Great Young professionals in their 20s and 30s from all industries are invited to this free event.   CEND’s Young Professional events and network serve young Catholics across the Twin Cities at any stage of their professional and faith journey. Our goal is to build a community that fosters and empowers […]

Study runs from July 29th – Dec. 23rd (no meetings Nov. 11 & 25) – join anytime!  Study Guide Cost:  $29.95 plus S&H (you can pay on Ascension website)  Contact:  Vivian Chu Email:  [email protected]  Registration Link: https://study.ascensionpress.com/studies/56026/registrations/new  Bl. Pier Giorgio would take quiet moments while climbing in the mountains to pray, read Scripture, take photographs, […]

A Reflection on Divine Mercy Read More Read More The Breakdown of the Moral Argument Read More Reflections on the Receding Flames at Notre Dame Read More Read More A Field Guide for Young Catholics Read More A Reflection on World Youth Day Read More Read More As the Bishops Return From Baltimore Read More […]

Something feels … off, I thought as I strode through the sliding doors of the neighborhood grocery store. A muffled voice to my left: “Have a nice day!” A Salvation Army bell ringer, donning a Santa hat and a black face mask, with eyes smiling out from between them. And then I remembered: I forgot […]

Under ordinary circumstances, Catholics are obligated to attend Mass on Sundays. But as we are well aware by now, the past ten months have not been ordinary, and since last March our bishop has leveraged his legitimate authority to suspend this obligation, giving Catholics the freedom not to attend “if [they] decide that congregating for […]

Back in early May, I had the privilege of working on a young adult event at Nativity of Mary in Bloomington. We gathered in classic “theology on tap” style, but rather than doing a straight presentation, the pastor (Fr. Nathan LaLiberte) and myself decided to do more of a back-and-forth banter presentation of the topic. […]

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.     It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;     It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;     And all is seared with trade; bleared, […]