Around the Diocese

Ted Bechtold is now working in Bucharest, Romania, teaching English to refugees, helping in a shelter and also raising money to send to people in need who are still trying to leave Ukraine.

Here are three things we should work on this Easter season.

Deacon Guy Beck, 74, died April 2 at St. Benedict Senior Community in St. Cloud. A memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 26,  at St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville.

Bishop Donald Kettler celebrated the annual diocesan chrism Mass April 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud.

Holy Week and Easter Masses interpreted for the deaf and persons with hearing disabilities will be celebrated in the diocese at two locations.

A Way of the Cross procession at Lake George, introduced in St. Cloud 25 years ago by members of the lay Catholic movement Communion and Liberation, will start at 3 p.m. on Good Friday, April 15.

Franciscan Sister Mary Lou Eltgroth, 87, died March 31 at St. Francis Convent, Little Falls. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 7, at St. Francis Convent with burial in the convent cemetery.

After two years of watching online, Betty Ann Bittel travled to Minnesota to meet the staff and parishioners at Christ Our Light.