St. Olaf Catholic Church

06/05/2026

Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr | June 5
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When Boniface set out on his final missionary journey at the age of nearly eighty, he had already spent a lifetime doing what most men would have called enough... crossing from England to the Germanic lands, felling the sacred oak of Thor before a crowd that expected divine retribution, founding the Abbey of Fulda, organizing the scattered and half-pagan German Church into coherent dioceses, serving as Archbishop of Mainz.
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He had written to the bishops of England: "Let us be neither dogs that do not bark nor silent onlookers."
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He headed north the coastline where he had begun and failed forty years before. He knew what he was going back to and on June 5, 754, pagan raiders killed him and his companions as they prepared converts for Confirmation.

06/04/2026

Please join us in praying for these seven men as they are about to be ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday.
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All are welcome to attend the Mass being held at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral on Saturday at 10am.

06/01/2026

Memorial of St. Justin Martyr | June 1
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Born a pagan in Samaria, Justin spent his early life moving from one school of philosophy to the next, searching for something that could hold the weight of ultimate truth. None of it satisfied.
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The turning point came in a conversation with an elderly stranger near the sea, who told him to set aside the Greeks and read the Hebrew prophets instead.
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He did and he spent the rest of his life defending in writing, openly, before the most powerful empire on earth what he learned.
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Not from a safe distance. He lived and taught in Rome itself.
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In 165 AD, under Marcus Aurelius, he was arrested, tried and beheaded alongside his students for refusing to offer sacrifice to the emperor.
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A philosopher who found the truth he was looking for... and paid the price the Roman Empire charged for it.

05/31/2026

"Today I put on a terrible strength, invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three with faith in the One as I face my Maker." ~ St. Patrick's breastplate
Today is Trinity Sunday. Father, Son and Holy Spirit: one God, three Persons, eternal love. The Catechism calls the Trinity “the central mystery of Christian faith and life.” In today’s Gospel, that mystery is revealed as love: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.”
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Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

05/27/2026

Ordinary Time is back. Which means most of us are back to ordinary things: work, dishes, emails, school events, appointments, errands, parish meetings, and wondering what’s for supper.
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And... that is where most holiness is built!
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The Christian life is usually formed in the small repeated choices: patience when we’re tired, prayer when we’re distracted, forgiveness when we’d rather keep score, generosity when it costs a little more than expected.

05/17/2026

Another FunFest in the Books! Thanks for your help everyone!

Explore this photo album by James Kurzynski on Flickr!

05/17/2026

Just a reminder! FunFest is today! Looks like the rain will end by about 11:00 and then stay away until evening! Come on out and have some fun!

05/09/2026

You’ve seen both of these at Mass.
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One carries the smoke. One carries the cross.
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But only one is the thurifer. Do you know which one it is?
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👇 Drop your guess below

05/09/2026

"Love, indeed, is the source of all good things; it is an impregnable defense, and the way that leads to heaven. He who walks in love can neither go astray nor be afraid: love guides him, protects him and brings him to his journey’s end."
~St. Fulgentius of Ruspe
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“The cross is the school of love.”
~ St. Maximilian Kolbe
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05/06/2026

“I rejoiced because they said to me, ‘We will go up to the house of the Lord.’” (Psalm 122:1)
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We belong. We gather. And... in a world that seeks to pull us in so many directions, we know where we are meant to be.