Around the Diocese

Benjamin St. Hilaire won the Multi-Region State Spelling Bee and moves on to the 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., May 24-29.

All are invited to celebrate the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion on Sunday, March 1, at 3 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud. Bishop Donald Kettler will preside. 

The 2020 Bishop’s Annual Appeal supports ministries that strengthen our Church, including Catholic education, faith formation, marriage preparation, family life, pastoral planning, multicultural ministries, ministry to the divorced and the TV Mass for the homebound.

Mary Hinton, president of the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, announced Feb. 13 that she will step down at the end of this school year.

Benedictine Sister Ione (Jeffrey) Jesh, 82, died at St. Cloud Hospital Sunday, Feb. 9. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, at Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, with burial in the monastery cemetery.

Parishioners are being invited after Masses Feb. 8-9 and 15-16 to sign their names on the tabernacle, which will be a permanent part of the new tabernacle configuration. It will be centered in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament located behind the altar in the new church.

Ted Masog played his last Mass at St. Frederick on Dec. 28, and he’ll miss it. “It’s playing. I just like to play. That’s all.”

Through ministries it supports, the Bishop’s Annual Appeal makes a difference in many people’s faith lives across the diocese.