Benedictine Father Brennan (Charles) Maiers, 86, died July 22 in the retirement center at St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville. The monks, family, and friends will receive the body on Wednesday, July 27, at 7 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 28, in St. John’s Abbey and University Church, with interment in the abbey cemetery.
David Trunk, a retired dairy farmer south of Foreston, will host the diocese’s annual Rural Life Celebration in memory of Marlene, his late wife.
At the Aug. 14 Rural Life Celebration, Catholic Charities will honor Worms Lumber and Ready Mix, Inc., in New Munich with its first Catholic Rural Business Award.
Catholic elementary schools in the diocese took on a challenge offered by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation: Every school raising at least $25,000 in gifts over and above previous giving or from new donors, starting Jan. 1 and ending March 31, would receive another $25,000 from the foundation.
All donations for the event go toward supporting seminarian education for the Diocese of St. Cloud.
The Most Reverend Donald J. Kettler, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, makes the following reappointment in the Diocese of Saint Cloud: Reverend Kevin Anderson […]
Franciscan Sister Frances Kempenich, 97, died July 22 at St. Francis Convent, Little Falls. Receiving of the body of Sister Frances will be Thursday, July 28, at 9 a.m. followed by visitation until the time of her funeral at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Convent.
The grant will support the St. John’s School of Theology and Seminary as it develops its new initiative, “Sustained Encuentro: Accompanying One Another on the Way.”
