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by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Blessed Pauline Jaricot, Center for Mission, Deacon Mickey Friesen, Featured, News, world mission sunday | 0 |
After separate missionary trips to Alaska, India, Jamaica and Kenya, four witnesses of Christ in others and of his love in their own lives share some of their experiences of the universal Church with The Catholic Spirit this World Mission Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Alaska, Blessed Sacrament, Center for Mission, Dianne LaScotte, Galena, News, St. John Berchman church, world mission sunday | 0 |
While on an immersion and service trip to the tiny, remote village of Galena, Alaska, Dianne LaScotte approached an older resident outside St. John Berchman church to thank her for sharing her life story at a parish event. The woman, an elder in the Athabascan Indian community to which most of the village’s 470 residents belong, responded with curiosity, “Why are you here?”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Center for Mission, Debbie Keller, Kenya, Kitui, News, world mission sunday | 0 |
All the meetings Debbie Keller attended in Kitui, Kenya, during a Center for Mission partnership trip started in a surprising way — whether they were about community building and resources or gatherings with local women.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | ACCT, Adam Fitzpatrick, Care for Creation Team, Center for Mission, Father Kevin Clinton, Featured, Local News, Meatless Mondays, News, season of creation, Sister Kathleen Storms | 0 |
A calendar of prayers and suggestions for action such as meatless Mondays and shopping at farmer’s markets is available to help people in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis enter the Season of Creation Sept. 1 through Oct. 4, members of the archdiocese’s Care for Creation Team said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Center for Mission, Deacon Mickey Friesen, Featured, Local News, News, St. Thomas Becket in Eagan | 0 |
Deacon Mickey Friesen, 59, a St. Paul father of two, serves as director of the archdiocese’s Center for Mission and as a deacon at St. Thomas Becket in Eagan. A lifelong lover of nature, his goal is to see every state park in Minnesota. He often writes and preaches about the connection between faith and the outdoors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Adam Fitzpatrick, Burnsville, Center for Mission, Featured, Food waste, Gospel of John, Grace Koleczek, Local News, News, Risen Savior, Risen Savior in Burnsville, Social mission outreach coordinator | 0 |
“Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.” The sixth chapter of the Gospel of John records that Jesus spoke those words to his disciples after the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | Center for Mission, News, Picks, Universal mission of the Church, world mission sunday | 0 |
The Center for Mission helps unite individuals, parishes and the entire Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the universal mission of the Church, which is carrying Jesus’ saving message of love and healing to all corners of the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 3, 2021 | archbishop bernard hebda, Archbishop Nassar, Center for Mission, Damascus, Deacon Mickey Friesen, Deb Korluka, Featured, Local News, News, St. Paul icon, Syrian archdiocese | 0 |
When Christians think of art depicting the conversion of St. Paul, they likely think of the saint falling from his horse on the road to Damascus after being temporarily struck blind. But in Acts of the Apostles, where the event is chronicled, no horse is involved, said Deacon Mickey Friesen, director of the Center for Mission at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 17, 2020 | Adam Fitzpatrick, Archbishop Hebda, Center for Mission, Father Erich Rutten, Father Michael Joncas, Father Tom Margevicius, George Floyd, Local News, Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice, News, Prayer against racism, Racism | 0 |
The police-involved death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an African American, amplified cries for racial justice and moved Father Michael Joncas to take action.
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