Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,

First, I want to wish you a blessed and safe July 4th holiday! I encourage you to sanctify the 4th of July by attending Holy Mass. This year we will offer Holy Mass at Holy Trinity in Goodhue at 8am and at St. Paul in Zumbrota at 8:30am. I hope it will be a day of leisure and recreation, filled with gratitude for our nation and the many women and men who have sacrificed so much so tha...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,

This weekend we celebrate Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) Sunday and we invite you to prayerfully join in honoring the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar during the special activities planned, including processions and the offering of Benediction!

I urge us all to grow in our love for Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity! Our Savior and True Friend is...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,

I wish all fathers a blessed Father’s Day! Let us remember to thank God, our Father, for the gift of fatherhood in the human family and pray for our respective personal father and for all fathers.

This Sunday we celebrate the mystery of the Holy Trinity. The dogma of the Holy Trinity is the central teaching of our Catholic Faith. It is from this doctrine that all the other teachings of...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,

This weekend we celebrate the great moment of the founding of the Catholic Church. That moment we call Pentecost. This awesome mystery of the descending of the Holy Spirit upon the Virgin Mary and the Apostles is the moment in time when our Catholic Church began. In years past, the Church gave this Solemnity greater emphasis by celebrating an octave (or eight days) afterward. For us,...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,

This weekend we celebrate the wonderful event of our Lord’s Ascension into Heaven. This is a most joyful and inspiring Dogma of our Catholic Faith; for Jesus has preceded us into Heaven to prepare a place for us (cf John 14:2). Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us about this hope-filled event:

“"So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up i...