If, on Christmas morning, there was no snow, no lights, decorations, songs or anything to mark the occasion, “If all we had left was Jesus, would that be enough for us” to celebrate?

“Imagine if right now living in our diocese there were a handful of great missionary saints. Imagine if Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Francis Xavier and the great Jesuit Missionaries, St. John Henry Newman, Venerable Fulton Sheen, and St. Teresa of Calcutta were all scattered across our 16 counties.

Medford’s Holy Rosary students, faculty, staff and their families recently collected food for their local food pantry.

Theirs is a task that needs teams of volunteers with green thumbs, and the call for plant-watering services will hit its peak soon with Christmas services coming.

More than 16,000 teens and their chaperones attended the National Catholic Youth Conference from Nov. 20-22 at the Lucas Oil Stadium and Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

St. Albert the Great parishioners in Land O’ Lakes celebrated the feast day of their patron, St. Albert the Great, the weekend of Nov. 16.

Advent events around the diocese.

Rice Lake native Aly Aleigha Schissel, now Aerts since her 2024 marriage to Peter Aerts, has partnered with Fr. Mike Schmitz, her former college chaplain at University of Minnesota Duluth and a popular Ascension Press figure, to produce an Advent song.

In this third article of the series, we arrive at the fullest expression of the church’s mission: discipleship and apostolate.