St John the Baptist Catholic Church

09/10/2026

This weekend's bulletin:
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-john-the-baptist-and-holy-family-catholic-parishes/bulletin/file/01-2003-20260913B.pdf

09/08/2026

Hello CCD parents...
CCD Registration Night is Wednesday, September 9th at 6:30PM. Parents and children go to the parish dining hall to register. There is class for the students following the welcome and introduction of Catechists. The evening ends at 7:45PM.

We look forward to see everyone again this CCD school year!

09/07/2026

Let's support our Community and our Kids!
Jump on board and let's donate to the Neighbor's Place by participating in the Diaper Drive!

You'll find the receptacle in the Gathering space in the back of our church!
Thanks to all who so generously donate!

For more information--click this link:
://neighborsplace.org/Content/CommunityDiaper-Drive.cfm

09/05/2026

Join us for Mass on Sunday at 8:30 a.m.

St. John the Baptist Parish live stream of Mass at 8:30 a.m.Permi...

09/03/2026

The Holy Spirit will warn you when something feels off. Sometimes your natural eyes may not see the danger, but deep inside, you feel a check in your spirit. That inner warning is not always fear; sometimes it is divine guidance.

John 16:13 says the Spirit of truth will guide us into all truth. The Holy Spirit helps us recognise what is right, what is wrong, what to accept, and what to avoid.
When something feels unsettled in your spirit, pause and listen. Do not ignore the gentle voice of God because you want to please people or rush into a decision.

The Holy Spirit protects, guides, teaches, and leads us into peace.
Romans 8:14 says those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

Lord, help us to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit. We pray for His guiding hand as we go through each day to help us walk in wisdom. Amen.

09/03/2026

This weekend's bulletin:
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-john-the-baptist-and-holy-family-catholic-parishes/bulletin/file/01-2003-20260906B.pdf

09/03/2026

Here's a peek into the first day of class at St St. John the Baptist Catholic School! We pray for our kids and their teachers and staff--may God bless their work and their play. Amen.

09/01/2026

Hello Parish Family of St John the Baptist Catholic Church! **Calling all Men! You are invited to join us for the Fall Session of That Man is You! Sessions run 9 weeks beginning Sept 11th at 6 am in the St Mary's school cafeteria. (no worries about jumping into this program--no prerequisite needed)

--Core Focus: Explores authentic masculinity, fatherhood, marriage, and how a father's leadership leaves a lasting legacy for his children and society.
--Integration: Combines modern social and medical science, neuroscience, and scripture with Catholic teachings and the wisdom of the saints.
--Key Topics: The Catholic vision of love and marriage, the eternal significance of a father's heart, facing cultural battles, and looking to St. Joseph as a model of authentic masculinity.

The signup link is in the attached post. All men are welcome to join!

"That Man Is You” will be returning this fall.

This ongoing formation will be starting 'The Revelation of The Father' on Friday, September 11th at 6:00 AM.

Register today! https://programs.paradisusdei.org/join/B81567

09/01/2026

Attention women of St John the Baptist Parish-- you are invited!
St Mary's extends an invitation for you to join our group sessions:
*Purpose: It invites women to explore their identity as Christ's bride, encouraging spiritual healing, deeper prayer, and connection with other women.
*Format: Designed for local parish groups, each gathering typically includes fellowship, a video presentation, and small-group discussion.
*Duration: It runs for nine weekly sessions starting
--Monday, Sept 14th at 9 am (Abler Room--upstairs in church)
--Tuesday, Sept 15th at 6:30 am (at St Mary's School Cafeteria)

Feel free to click the link to sign up. All women are invited!
If you have any questions, please call Dorrie at 715-680-6151.

We are excited to announce that we will be starting Season 3: Love Unveiled!

There are two options to attend:
✅ Monday mornings starting September 14th at 9:00 AM

or

✅ Tuesday mornings starting September 15th at 6:30 AM.

https://programs.paradisusdei.org/join/1B0FEF

09/01/2026

An interesting read about a place that we all hope we never need to visit....

August 21, 1883. Just after six in the evening, the sky over Rochester, Minnesota turns the color of a bruise. Twenty minutes later, a third of the town is gone. Thirty seven people are dead. More than two hundred are bleeding in the streets.
Rochester had no hospital. Not one.
So a convent school on the edge of town emptied out. The nuns walked into the wreckage in full habits, and a woman named Mother Alfred Moes, an immigrant from Luxembourg who had come to America with almost nothing, sent word to the only doctor in town who could handle that many wounded.
His name was William Worrall Mayo. He was 64, an English country doctor, a hard skeptic on the subject of religion.
The sisters took over Rommel's dance hall and turned it into a hospital overnight. None of them had ever been trained in nursing. They learned it standing up, with Mayo giving orders and the injured laid out on the floorboards.
When the last patient was gone, Mother Alfred went to see him.
She told him Rochester needed a real hospital. A permanent one. She said she had seen it, a great hospital rising out of the cornfields on the west edge of town, and that she wanted him to run it.
Mayo told her the truth. A building like that would cost $40,000. Well over a million in today's money. He said no congregation of schoolteaching nuns could possibly raise it.
She did not argue with him. She simply told him that if he would take charge of the hospital, the sisters would take charge of paying for it.
Then she went out and did it.
For six years, her sisters taught school and handed over their wages. Every dollar. She bought nine acres of farmland. She hired the builders. She oversaw the plans herself, and when the money ran short, she found more.
Saint Marys Hospital opened on September 30, 1889. Twenty seven beds. Thirteen sisters, none of them nurses by training. Dr. Mayo, now 70, walked in as chief of staff with his two sons, Will and Charlie, beside him.
Those two boys built their surgical practice inside her building. Patients started arriving from Chicago, then from every state, then from overseas. The brothers formalized the partnership in 1919 and gave it their family name.
Mayo Clinic. Today it treats more than a million patients a year and is ranked the best hospital in the United States.

Mother Alfred Moes died on December 18, 1899, ten years after the doors opened. She never saw what it became.
The Mayo brothers always said it plainly. Their father did not want the hospital. The nun did. She built it, and then she handed them the keys.

Millions of Americans have made the drive to Rochester *with someone they love in the passenger seat. Almost none of them know that the whole thing started with a 54-year-old woman standing in tornado wreckage, refusing to accept a no.