This summer’s annual diocesan Rural Life Celebration will be held at St. Nicholas Parish in Belle River — not a farm.
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“The work of these and other family farmers to put food on our tables is more than a job, it’s a vocation.”
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The Stumpfs and their family, who will be wearing coordinating blue shirts at the event, have planned a variety of activities. The day begins with Mass at 11 a.m. with Bishop Donald Kettler, followed by a speaker, Michelle Litke, who is a teacher at Holy Trinity School in Pierz and a cancer survivor.
Rural life celebration
Bishop Donald Kettler presided at Mass during this year’s Catholic Charities Rural Life Celebration at the Joe and Toni Borgerding farm near Belgrade Aug. 13.
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The theme for this year’s Rural Life Celebration is “Caring for God’s Creation: Sharing in the Stewardship of God’s Country,” something the Joe and Toni Borgerding family have been working on for over 40 years.
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Sauk Centre family, performing at the Rural Life Celebration Aug. 13, aim to keep their music positive, inspiring and clean with hopes to bring a little bit of that prairie feel woven through the stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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The event, which will take place at the Czech farm half a mile south of Gilman, will be held Aug. 21, rain or shine.