In mid-November I represented the Diocese of Rapid City at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops fall meeting in Baltimore, Md. It was another interesting experience in this journey as the diocesan administrator. I visited with each of our former bishops and Bishop Steven Biegler and witnessed again the clarity of their teachings and […]
A look inside the shrine to Nicholas Black Elk that Red Cloud students created. It is on a little patch of land outside of the school in Pine Ridge. (Photo courtesy Red Cloud Indian School) Preserving a Catholic Community by Kathy Cordes, Diocesan Archivist Diocesan update on canonization cause “We are basically waiting for […]
Masses in White River began as early as 1885 and were offered in private homes and mission churches by missionary priests from surrounding states and the Jesuit priests based out of St. Francis Mission. St. Ignatius Catholic Church, described as “up on the hill west of town,” in the Sacred Heart Centennial Booklet, was where […]
By Becky Berreth “You can have everything you ever want but you still have a gaping hole in your heart if you don’t have God,” speaker Jackie Francois said to a group of 110 middle school students and parents. “It doesn’t matter what your circumstance is. If you don’t have God in your life as […]
This past summer, I had a number of grace-filled moments in which my eyes and heart were opened a little bit more to the movement of the Holy Spirit. I prayed with some of our middle and high school youth at Totus Tuus, our weeklong summer vocational camp. And praying with our seminarians and college […]
“Quiet, please! Can we have a moment to pause and reflect?” These phrases come to my mind during many of the Masses I celebrate throughout the diocese and even in my recent trip to Europe. I am referring to the pace of praying at Mass. We move from one prayer and action to another with […]
Rapid City, Cathedral, Mercy Night, Thursday, Feb. 27 — 5:30-8:30 p.m. Hill City, St. Rose, Fridays: Feb. 28, Mar. 6 & Mar. 13 — 6:30 p.m. (following Stations of the Cross) Murdo, St. Martin, Thursday, March 5 — 6 p.m. Isabel, St. Mary, Sunday, March 8 — 3 p.m. Timber Lake, Holy Cross, Sunday, March 8 […]
By Laurie Hallstrom “You are not alive by chance, God could create you to be alive at any point in history, but he chooses you be alive right now. (You belong) in this moment, in this place, with all that is going on,” said Fr. John Riccardo, from the Archdiocese of Detroit. Father Riccardo calls […]
St. Anthony, St. Anthony, dear St. Anthony, please come around. Something is lost and needs to be found. Please Grant me the serenity to accept the collections I cannot decline and the courage to decline the collections I can! Did you know that archivists have their own serenity prayer and that St. Anthony is a […]
By Fr. Michel Mulloy, Director of Liturgy The Liturgy of the Word is a dialogue. God is speaking to us and we are responding. That dialogue is accomplished through the human persons. This makes the role of the proclaimer very important. The laity proclaim the first reading, the response and the second reading. Proclaimers are […]