Last Updated on March 19, 2026 by web manager

PRAISED BE JESUS CHRIST!

SCHEDULE AND OFFICE HOURS
For information concerning times for Mass, Confessions, Adoration, Family Faith Formation and Office Hours, click here.

YOUTH ACTIVITIES
For details and What’s Happening for Youth, click here.

FAMILY FAITH FORMATION
The next session is on March 25th at SP and on April 8th at SL. There is a movie night on April 1st for all. For at home sheets (for off weeks) and other FFF information, click here.

FROM THE PASTOR
Last week, we looked briefly at the call to holiness that priests take up with their vocation. The priest is called to give everything of himself for the salvation of the faithful who are entrusted to his care as an imitation of Christ who poured out his blood for our salvation. At the very least, this means that the lay faithful are right to expect a lot out of the priest. After all, the priest’s vocation is to give everything of himself for the salvation of souls. Even his days off are not to be selfish—they’re intended as a chance to spiritually ‘recharge’ so that they can more faithfully serve the other six days of the week.

In his book, The Gospel Priesthood, Dom Hubert von Zellar, OSB, wrote extensively on how the parish priest’s life is to be rooted in prayer and living a life of holiness in service to God and His people. One striking point he made was that we don’t necessarily need more priests, but that we need holier priests. And he wrote this in the 1950s when, by today’s standards, there was an abundance of parish priests. At any rate, without a deep life of prayer that upholds everything else, the priest would be incapable of living up to his lofty vocation.

The priest’s life of prayer is not merely for himself, or so people can look at him … (click here to view Father Kris’ entire message).
—Pope St. John Paul II, pray for us.

FIRST SATURDAY MASSES
We now offer Masses in honor of the First Saturday devotion at St. Luke’s at 9:00am (except on Holy Saturday (4/4). The Mass is followed by normal Confession time. The First Saturday devotion is in keeping with the Blessed Mother’s request to St. Lucia to offer prayers of reparation for sins committed throughout the whole world.

MONSIGNOR JOSEPH BUH
Meet Monsignor Joseph Buh, the Duluth priest who could become America’s next saint.

ARE YOU REGISTERED IN THE PARISH?
If you are new to our area, or if you are a summer parishioner & consider this your spiritual home during the summer months, please join us & become part of our parish family. We value your time, treasure & talents. Contact the parish office to get a parish census form.

ARK BUILDING continues
See our Ark Builders menu and page here for more.

EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES
Eucharistic Miracles happen as Blessed Carlo Acutis shows us here! God does indeed seek to help us believe that he is truly present in the Eucharist.

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The Chosen is an artistic portrayal of the life of Jesus and the Apostles. As “The Passion of the Christ”, the creators of this series attempt to show how things might have been if we had been there … using the art of cinematography. It is worth watching, but with the idea that not all of the words, actions, or ideas presented are known to be true. Consider it like looking at a work of art attempting to portray the parable of The Prodigal Son. As we watch “The Chosen,” we turn to prayer and the Gospels for “the truth” but realize the lives of those portrayed must have been amazing! Here is a video where Bishop Barron and Jonathan Roumie attempt to describe the series and faith and their relationship:

The following videos discuss two of the most popular Podcasts in the country done by Father Michael Schmitz with help from Jeff Cavins: