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Monday-Thursday 10:00 am to 6:30 pm; Sunday 8:00 am to 1:30 pm and 3:00 to 5:30 pm
(closed Friday and Saturday)
You are Called to Serve as a St. Olaf Pastoral Care Minister
Caring, community members are needed to visit and distribute the Eucharist to our homebound. If you are a parishioner interested in serving as a Pastoral Care Minister for St. Olaf, please contact Mary Brady for more information at 612-767-6202 or mbrady@SaintOlaf.org. An information meeting is schedule for January 30 at 6:00 pm in the Education Room. Following that meeting, a training program will be scheduled for all candidates which includes: Our Baptismal Call, listening skills, confidentiality, mutuality, praying with others, and loss and grief. Is this where your gifts could be shared? Absolutely!
Calling all Parents, Teachers & Grandparents!
Information Meeting for New Catechists
An information meeting is scheduled for January 31 at 6:00 pm in the Education Room for anyone interested in becoming a catechist in the sacramental program, assisting children 8 years and older to prepare to receive their First Eucharist and First Reconciliation. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to teach our children. For more information, please contact Mary Brady at 612-767-6202 or mbrady@SaintOlaf.org.
St. Olaf Heavenly Pancakes & Catechesis
Sunday, February 5, 11:00 am (following 10:00 am Mass)
Join us for a pancake breakfast and a reflection. What You Need to Know to Get to Heaven is a series of presentations on faith and life living, which are sponsored by the St. Olaf Institute for Catholic Studies and the Dorothy Ellstrom Endowment for Spiritual Enrichment. This month’s subject is Everyone Has a Vocation. Come to enjoy pancakes and to fuel your faith. There will be a goodwill offering for the pancake budget.
“A Taste of Risen Christ” Fiesta!
Saturday, February 11, 5:00 – 7:00 pm in Fleming Hall at St. Olaf
Enjoy savory, delectable food, lively games and music, mix and mingle with Risen Christ students and more! All you can eat and drink! $20 per person, $5 children age 10 and under. Reservations can be made beginning January 15. Contact Joan Miltenberger at 612-332-7471 ext. 247, jmiltenberger@SaintOlaf.org or Jill Audette at 612-822-5329 ext. 108, jaudette@risenchristschool.org.
Lent is A Springtime of the Soul, A Time to Begin Again!
You are invited to lectures, reading and praying with the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel for Liturgical Cycle B used during 2012. Mark is both the first Gospel and the shortest, just 16 chapters. “This is where the Good News starts,” are his opening words, and he immediately tells of John the Baptist in the desert, announcing a baptism of repentance and forgiveness. N. T. Wright says, “This Gospel is written with a zip and punch…that’s meant to grab you by the collar and make you face the truth about Jesus, about God, and about yourself!” The Gospels serve as a window into the historical life and teachings of Jesus, the Word Made Flesh, as well as a mirror to reflect the light and darkness in our own life. Please join us for these timely lectures on the Gospel of Mark, presented by Fr. John R. Donahue, S.J. Includes 12 lectures with study guides (audio/CDs), with facilitator Sr. Joan Tuberty, in the St. Olaf Gathering Room on:
Mondays: February 27, March 5, 12, 19, 26, and April 2 following the 12:00 noon Mass, from 12:30-1:30 pm. Light lunch provided.
OR Tuesdays: February 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27, and April 3 following the 5:15 pm Mass, from 5:45-6:45 pm. Light supper provided.
Wondrous Love
MUSIC FOR CHOIR AND ORGAN
Viterbo University Concert Choir, St. Olaf Parish Choir
Jean Saladino, Lynn Trapp, conductors
Saturday, March 3, 2012 • 7:30 pm
The St. Olaf Parish Choir joins the Viterbo University Concert Choir to perform a Lenten season concert of organ and choral music including When I Survey The Wondrous Cross arr. Martin, Wondrous Love arr. Shaw, Duruflé‘s Ubi Caritas and Byrd’s Ave Verum, among other works. Viterbo is a Franciscan founded, Catholic university in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Freewill offering taken.
2011-2012 Faith & Work Breakfast Series presents FR. J. MICHAEL BYRON
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity
Thursday, March 8
“Faith and Work: Convergence and Conversion”
The series takes place in Fleming Hall at St. Olaf Catholic Church.
7:15 am – Registration/Continental Breakfast
7:35 am – Welcome & Introduction
7:40 am – Presentation
8:30 am – Conversation, Q & A
8:45 am – Adjourn
Cost is $20 per person. For more information and registration, contact Carol Bishop at 612-332-7471 ext. 255 or e-mail cbishop@SaintOlaf.org. You can also order tickets online at: http://saintolaf.org/events-and-programs/faith-work-series.
2011-2012 Faith & Work Breakfast Series presents FR. JOHN A. KLOCKEMAN
Assistant Director of Spiritual Formation, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity
Thursday, April 26
“Call and Charism”
The series takes place in Fleming Hall at St. Olaf Catholic Church.
7:15 am – Registration/Continental Breakfast
7:35 am – Welcome & Introduction
7:40 am – Presentation
8:30 am – Conversation, Q & A
8:45 am – Adjourn
Cost is $20 per person. For more information and registration, contact Carol Bishop at 612-332-7471 ext. 255 or e-mail cbishop@SaintOlaf.org. You can also order tickets online at: http://saintolaf.org/events-and-programs/faith-work-series.
Organ Recital
Dr. Craig Cramer, guest organist
Saturday, April 28, 2012 • 7:00 pm
Craig Cramer is Professor of Organ and Artist in Residence at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He also serves as organist at St. David of Wales Episcopal Church in Elkhart, Indiana. Dr. Cramer will perform an eclectic program including music by J. S. Bach, the monumental set of variations by Auguste Fauchard, Le Mystère de Noël, and Introduction, Scherzo, and Fugue on B-E-A-T-E by Toni Zahnbrecher of Munich, Germany. “Throughout, Dr. Cramer’s playing is immaculate, eminently musical, with an innate sense of tempo, phrasing and style.” – The American Organist. Freewill offering taken.
Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
ORATORIO SOCIETY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Matthew Mehaffey, conductor
Saturday, May 5, 2012 • 7:30 pm
The Oratorio Society of Minnesota is an auditioned 75-voice choral ensemble based in the Twin Cities area. Celebrating its 30th year, OSM continues to delight audiences with performances of the great works of choral literature. Society members are of all ages and from all walks of life. This concert will feature the works of 20th century English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams including Dona Nobis Pacem, Serenade to Music and A Vision of Aeroplanes. Tickets are $20/adult; $10/student. For advance purchase, visit www.oratorio.org or call 1-866-811-4111 (toll-free).
Corpus Christi: Christ in the Eucharist, Christ in One Another
Rev. Ricky Manalo, CSP, presenter, musician, author, composer, recording artist
Saturday, June 9, 2012, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon Retreat with Music, concluding with 12:00 noon Mass
Corpus Christi Sunday, June 10, Prelude: 3:30 pm; Mass: 4:00 pm
Fr. Ricky Manalo, CSP, a member of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (The Paulists Fathers), has written articles and books on pastoral ministry, liturgical music and intercultural communication. He is a nationally recognized composer of contemporary Catholic liturgical music. God continually calls us to deepen our relationships with the Triune God and with one another. These relationships become expressed whenever the church gathers together to celebrate the Eucharist. As we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, join a retreat that will renew our understanding and appreciation of the Eucharist. We will reflect on the Church’s approach to the Body of Christ as it was understood by the early Christian community and see what implications this may have in our spiritual lives today. The artist’s music will be featured in these events. Freewill offering taken at the retreat.
Oratorio Society Chorus
MUSIC FOR CHOIR, BRASS AND ORGAN
Matthew Mehaffey, conductor
Saturday, July 28, 2012 • 7:30 pm
The Oratorio Society of Minnesota is an auditioned 75-voice choral ensemble based in the Twin Cities area. Featured in this concert will be Gloria by John Rutter, among other works. Tickets are $10/adult; $5/student. For advance purchase, visit www.oratorio.org or call 1-866-811-4111 (toll-free).
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL
Join the Archdiocesan Pilgrimage Choir (APC) on an excursion to Turkey and Greece October 7-16, 2012. Singers, non-singers, all travelers welcome! Istanbul, Athens, Rhodes, Patmos, Ephesus, and Corinth, including a three-day cruise on the Mediterranean. Since 1996 the APC, under the direction of Dr. Lynn Trapp, Wendy and Michael Silhavy, has traveled much of Europe and the Holy Land. Contact Anne Susag at asusag@SaintOlaf.org, 612-767-6214 or Lynn Trapp at ltrapp@SaintOlaf.org, 612-767-6213.
You are invited to the TUESDAY CLUB at the League of Catholic Women
Each second and fourth Tuesday of the month, the League of Catholic Women invite seniors living in and near downtown Minneapolis to social, bingo and lunch at 207 South 9th Street, one block from St. Olaf Church. Since 1974 the League members have offered this outreach and hospitality for seniors. The program includes 10:00 social; 10:30 – 11:30 bingo; 11:30 – 12:30 lunch – and it is free of charge. The League also reimburses Metro Mobility Ride expenses! If you live near downtown and would enjoy a place to meet others and have a home-cooked meal, come to the Tuesday Club. For more information contact Mary Murray at 952-920-3028.
