Events

Natural Family Planning: Seminar for engaged couples or anyone wanting to learn more about natural family planning. Seminar will be open for distance learning opportunity for out-of-town couples. Preregistration required. Call Family Life Ministries 605-716-5214 x236 or email ajulian@diorc.org.

Consider being a part of the team that helped make last year’s Summit the largest event ever hosted at Terra Sancta. Ambassadors for Christ will provide you with everything you need to know about this year’s Summit so that you can share this with your parish and others. Call the Office of Stewardship, 605-716-5214 or visit www.CatholicWayofLife.org/events.

CRAVING PEACE & QUIET? Wanting to deepen your relationship with Jesus? We invite you join us for a directed silent retreat, so you can Rest in God. Choose what works best for you – 2 days, 3, 4, or 5 days of silence. This is a silent directed retreat with the opportunity to meet with a Spiritual Director for up to an hour each day for individual guidance and support during your retreat. Because of the intense nature of this silent directed retreat, prior silent retreat experience is required. Daily costs include dinner, overnight accommodations, breakfast, lunch and spiritual direction and costs range from $125 to $169 per day, depending on lodging.  Register on-line at http://terrasancta.org/silence2019  Questions? Contact us at 605-716-0925.

Chancery offices closed in observance of Labor Day.

The Office of Vocations would like to invite the women of our diocese to join our Spiritual Motherhood Group, according to the invitation of the Congregation for the Clergy, who asked women everywhere to consider serving as “Spiritual Mothers” to priests. This would include a commitment to prayer and offerings for the priests of our diocese, as well as prayers for an increase of vocations in our diocese. Cost of the event is $30 per person, includes Sunday lunch. Optional lodging and additional meals are also available. Maria Oszwaldowska, Admin Assistant to the Office of Vocations or email moszwaldowska@diorc.org or call 605-716-5214 ext. 233

Basic and Master graduates of the Veritatis Splendor Institute will receive their certification at. All are welcome to attend and support the diocesan graduates. Reception to follow.

Held at Arrowhead Country Club. Registration begins at 11 a.m. with shotgun start at noon. Don’t golf? Sign up for the Bunco social from 1-5 p.m. Sponsored by WSDCF, RCCSS, and CSS. Register at www.wsdcf.org.

Join Bishop Robert Gruss for the annual Bishop’s Hunt for Seminarians. There are several ways you can participate. First, the night before the hunt, we welcome you to enjoy the social and dinner prepared by the Stukel family. Second, come and enjoy hunting with the bishop and our seminarians. The hunt day begins with the rosary and a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert Gruss. All proceeds will benefit our seminarians.

If you cannot attend the event, there are ways you can help. We greatly appreciate your financial assistance to help fund the education of our seminarians. The annual cost to educate a seminarian is more than $33,000. Over the course of the last three years, the diocese supported 16 men as they discerned the priesthood. What a blessing! Your generosity and support have helped form and shape young men discerning God’s incredible call to the priesthood. Your gifts and support truly are a blessing.

Register online at www.wsdcf.org.

Fr. John Riccardo, a priest from the Archdiocese of Detroit, will be our keynote speaker for this year’s Summit 2019.

Fr. Riccardo is the author of, “Heaven Starts Now: Becoming a Saint Day by Day”, is often heard on Catholic radio, and speaks nationwide.  He was ordained in 1996 and has served at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Divine Child Catholic Church, The Cardinal Maida Institute for Marriage and Family, and St. Anastasia Catholic Church.

He now leads a non-profit movement, Acts XXIX.  Acts XXIX works to mentor Catholic parishes who desire parish renewal and want to create a culture of evangelization.

Most importantly, though, Fr. Riccardo has a gift for preaching and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ in a way that moves people’s hearts.  And at this year’s Summit, he will be sharing this gift of preaching with us.

Cost: $25 per individual or $50 per family
Registration includes Saturday lunch and dinner

Directed by Dr. Clare R. Ten Eyck, OCDS — Holiness is simply being spiritually healthy every day. This means using your ordinary life experience to live in a fulfilling relationship with God the Father, Jesus Christ and the holy Spirit. Called to Holiness is a four day individualized retreat, limited to 12 people. $200.00  https://www.siouxspiritualcenter.org/retreats  or call 605-985-5906

Look for more information come!!

Save the date! More information to come! Office of Vocations 605-716-5214 x233 or email moszwaldowska@diorc.org.

Celebrate the Year of the Eucharist with a weekend devoted to deepening your relationship with Christ in the Eucharist. Jacques Daniel, Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries will direct this Ignatian based silent retreat. A long time active member of our diocese in a number of ministries, a husband and father of eight, Jacques brings his passion for Jesus in the Eucharist to share with other fathers, brothers and sons. Costs range from $170 to $250 for the weekend, depending on lodging option. Registration will be available late summer.

Young men ages 16-25 are invited to travel with the Office of Vocations to Winona, MN to visit the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary.  This is an opportunity to experience seminary life and explore the possibility that God might be calling you to discern priesthood at the seminary. For more information or to register, please visit:  www.gods-call.org/events  or call the Office of Vocations at: 605-716-5214.

Celebrate the Year of the Eucharist with a weekend devoted to deepening your relationship with Christ in the Eucharist. Dr. Carole Brown, Director of the Sioux Spiritual Center will direct this Ignatian based silent retreat.  Carole was previously the Director of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. She earned a Master’s Degree in Theology and Christian Ministry, with a specialization in Catechetics, from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1997 and served at Franciscan University as Director of Evangelistic Outreach for eight years. She completed her PhD in Systematic Theology in Dublin in 2010. Her dissertation was entitled “Crossing the Threshold of Faith: Pope John Paul II’s Approach to the Problem of the Conversion of the Baptized.” While in Ireland she helped to establish Ireland’s first Christian radio station, Spirit Radio. Costs range from $170 to $250 for the weekend, depending on lodging option. Registration will be available late summer.

Chancery offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving

Chancery offices closed in observance of Christmas.