For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His...

Vehicles dart about on the highways proudly displaying their successful hunting of deer or trees. In the past few weeks countless hunters...

Most of what we know about the first Christmas comes to us from St. Luke. The Roman census, the crowded inn, the shepherds keeping night...

The With today’s feast of Christ the King, another liturgical year comes to an end. Pope Pius XI instituted this feast in1925 in response...

First, a word from our ACC Planning Council: thanks for your input and patience as we work to improve the shared bulletin. Please check...

Next to the computer monitor in my office is a goat figurine. The goat represents a gift that was given in my honor to a family through...

The seasons change; the leaves fall; the days get shorter; the readings at Mass speak of the end of time. It is natural for us in these...

Will there be yet another altweibersommer before the cold air of late autumn and winter set in? Altweibersommer is German for old woman...

In 2023, the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will focus on “Synodality” - a way to think of the ordering of the...

We are inundated with words every day by traditional and social media. Ideas and opinions challenge us to find the truth, discerning what...

That sentence was the cover message of a card I received 28 years ago from a second-grader when I was leaving St. Vincent de Paul parish...

The cooler temperatures and the waning sunlight signal it is time for fall cleaning going. For me, this is the sadness of putting the...

In today’s Gospel, when Jesus says, “Whoever wishes to save their life will lose it,” he invites us to “go all in” and bet everything we...

From safari…….. After several years of watching his wife cut off the end of the ham before baking it, he finally asked her why. She...

Four years ago, the cluster of parishes I served in St. Cloud celebrated a cluster mission around the theme, “The Gift That Is Our...

From Safari…….. This weekend the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary replaces the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Solemnity was...

Who taught you to pray? Very often it is a parent who first introduces this marvelous truth to us: that we can freely talk directly with...

“But the most remarkable development of all is to be seen in humanity’s stupendous progress in the domination and rational organization...

From Safari…… One of my first jobs outside the home was at the Sauk Rapids Perkins (now closed). It was open 24 hours. Being part time, I...

“This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You...