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Looking for a one-of-a-kind gift that benefits those in need? The St. Cloud Mission Office has an onsite store, providing shoppers with a place to purchase unique gifts from all over the world.

Liturgy directors and parish volunteers are busily preparing buildings and worship spaces for a prayerful Advent season and anticipation for Christmas.

It’s not every day that you hear a Benedictine monastery being mentioned on a cooking show. But in late October Saint John’s Abbey was included in an episode of “The Splendid Table,” a National Public Radio show.

Since the first TEC retreat held in the diocese in 1978, more than 42,000 people have had a similar experience on the three-day weekend. More people have gone through the St. Cloud program than any other TEC program in the world.

On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the church’s mission in light of the just-concluded Synod on Synodality, the National Eucharistic Congress, and the recently concluded U.S. election loomed large.

In an effort to nurture relationships between the diocesan bishop, diocesan staff and Area Catholic Community pastoral leadership, the idea for Pastoral Visits was born.

Youth from around the diocese gathered at Lake Geneva Christian Center in Alexandria for the annual High School Youth Day Oct. 27.

This fall, the men began their second year under the sixth edition of the Program of Priestly Formation instituted by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, which segments their formation into four stages.