Events

FOCCUS training, 8 a.m.-noon, $60 – Includes materials and lunch

Joy Filled Marriage, 1-4 p.m., $10 – Materials should be available from your parish. Please bring the Leader Guide for this training. If you would like to purchase your own materials, submit your order when registering before JULY 1.

Lodging also available.

Registration at http://terrasancta.org/event/foccus-training-2.

A Weekend Retreat for the Engaged: A weekend getaway for engaged couples to deepen their relationship with each other and with God by exploring the Catholic Church’s vision of marriage. Call Amy at Family Life Ministries 605-716-5214 x236, ajulian@diorc.org. Register online at www.terrasancta.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. Session also held in Timber Lake. Call the Office of Stewardship, 605-716-5214 or visit www.CatholicWayofLife.org/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.

Directed by Father Tyler Dennis and includes time for adoration, confession, rosary, Mass, and silence. Costs based on your preference for lodging range from $220 to $330. Meals, lodging,  and spiritual direction are included in your costs. Scholarships available. Find out more and register on-line at http://terrasancta.org/silentretreats/ or call 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

Look for more information come!!

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

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.