Saint Bonaventure

08/21/2025

🍂🎉 Ready for Fall Festival Fun? 🎉🍂
Mark your calendars—St. Boni’s Fall Festival is almost here, and we’ve got a full day of joy, flavor, and community spirit to share with you!

🚗 300+ classic cars
🎈 Parade – route: 10th Ave., 92nd Street, and Chicago Ave.
🎶 Live music & entertainment
🎠 Kids’ games & inflatables
🍽️ Legendary pork chops & homemade egg rolls
🎟️ Raffles, crafts, and so much more!

Whether you're here for the food, the llamas 🦙, or the festival fun, there’s something for everyone.

👉 Check out all the details and plan your perfect festival day:
🔗 https://www.saintbonaventure.org/fall-festival.html

Tag your festival crew and let us know what you’re most excited for! 💛

A Beloved Bloomington Tradition

05/16/2025

Join us for Vacation Bible School, June 16-20, 9 a.m. - Noon, as we journey to True North: Trusting Jesus in a Wild World!

The Bloomington parishes—Saint Bonaventure, Nativity, and St. Edward—are teaming up for another exciting week of VBS fun. This year’s program will take place at St. Edward.

Children currently in grades K-5 will explore God’s love through engaging Bible stories, music, games, crafts, and faith-filled fun. We need teen leaders (current grade 6-12) and adult volunteers too!

Register at https://www.saintbonaventure.org/vbs.html.

04/15/2025

✝️ Journey with Us Through the Easter Triduum ✝️

As we approach the holiest days of the Church year, we invite you to join us in experiencing the deep beauty and mystery of the Easter Triduum—three sacred days that lead us from the sorrow of the Cross to the joy of the Resurrection.

🕊 Holy Thursday – We remember the Last Supper, the gift of the Eucharist, and Jesus’ command to love and serve one another.
📅 April 17, 7 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper, followed by Adoration until midnight

✝️ Good Friday – We stand at the foot of the Cross, reflecting on Christ’s sacrifice and God’s immense love for us.
📅 April 18, 3 p.m. – Friday of the Passion of the Lord

🌅 Easter Vigil & Easter Sunday – We rejoice in the light of the Resurrection, celebrating new life, hope, and the triumph of Christ over death!
📅 April 19, 8 p.m. – Easter Vigil Mass
📅 April 20, 8 a.m. & 10 a.m. – Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Masses

Whether you're a lifelong Catholic or haven't been to church in a while, we warmly welcome you to walk this journey with us. There’s a place for you here.

📍 Church of Saint Bonaventure: 901 E. 90th St., Bloomington, MN 55420

Come and see what God has done. ❤️

03/07/2025

Here is a helpful list for making Fish Fryday plans! Of course, we hope you'll plan on spending Friday, March 14, and Friday, April 11, here at Saint Bonaventure. ;)

Definitive list of parishes and schools hosting fish fries or dinners during the Lenten season

02/27/2025

Lent begins next week, as Ash Wednesday is March 5. We invite you to join us in preparing our hearts for Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Learn more about the Lenten Activities offered at our parish at https://www.saintbonaventure.org/lent--easter.html

01/03/2025

Transform your prayer life and discover the power of this Marian devotion with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames and The Rosary in a Year podcast.

12/31/2024

Celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God with us tonight (12/31) at our Midnight Mass of New Year or tomorrow morning (1/1) with Mass at 8:45 a.m.

“At the beginning of the New Year, then, let us place ourselves under the protection of this woman, the Mother of God, who is also our mother. May she help us to keep and ponder all things, unafraid of trials and with the joyful certainty that the Lord is faithful and can transform every cross into a resurrection. " - Prayer from Pope Francis, Holy Mass on the Solemnity in 2022

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, falls on New Year’s Day; it celebrates Mary as the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of the Church.

12/26/2024

For the 2025 Jubilee of Hope, the first Door to be opened was the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on December 24, then, for the first-time ever, the Pope opened the Holy Door at a prison. The Pope said this historic event was so everyone would "have the opportunity to fling open the doors to their hearts and understand that hope never disappoints."

In the Rebibbia New Complex Prison in Rome, Pope Francis opens a Holy Door and celebrates Mass for prisoners.

12/21/2024