The 8th Street Boulevard Gardens at St. Olaf in Minneapolis won an award for best adopted garden in the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District 2024 Greening and Public Realm Awards.
Deacon Clarence Shallbetter, who was ordained in 2001 and served at St. Olaf and Sts. Cyril and Methodius, both in Minneapolis, as well as in prison ministry, died Nov. 9. He was 86.
The night before Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney’s Oct. 28 episcopal ordination, the parish where he is pastor, St. Olaf in Minneapolis, hosted solemn vespers. Bishop Michael Izen presided and Archbishop Bernard Hebda, Cardinal Christoph Pierre –– the apostolic nuncio to the United States — and other members of the clergy attended, along with his family, friends and other supporters.
As attendees waited quietly just before 7 a.m. Mass in the chapel at St. Olaf in downtown Minneapolis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda walked to the podium and announced that Father Kevin Kenney had been selected by Pope Francis to be an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
St. Olaf in downtown Minneapolis purchased the Exodus Residence in the early 1990s, and in partnership with Catholic Charities, provided “supportive housing” for more than 25 years, said Michael Griffin, the parish’s director of social ministry. “But in the last couple of years, it was recognized that the building had seen some better days, and was in need of some TLC on both a grand and a small scale,” he said.
Just before 8 a.m. March 22, nine men and women gathered outside St. Olaf in Minneapolis in a garden dedicated to St. Francis to pray that saint’s famous prayer: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. …”
If you happen to be in the city known for Fenway Park, the Freedom Trail and a marathon that draws people from around the world, you might consider visiting a lesser-known but even more inspiring site.
Barbara McDonald, 61, a member of St. Olaf in Minneapolis will become president of The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth Aug. 5, the Catholic college announced May 30.
Father Robert Fitzpatrick witnessed the waves of change after the Second Vatican Council during his formation for the priesthood in the late 1960s. He was part of the first class of seminarians to enter after the council began in 1962.
St. Olaf in downtown Minneapolis hosted homeless men and women during Super Bowl weekend to accommodate the temporary closure of First Covenant Church’s shelter, due to its close proximity to U.S. Bank Stadium.
“The biggest point that we emphasize is use your heart, not [just] your head, in the conversation, so when somebody says ‘This is my experience,’ you don’t try and argue them out of it."
The rehearsal hall in the basement of the music building at St. Catherine University in St. Paul isn’t a mid-18th century cathedral in Leipzig, Germany. But it is where “St. John Passion,” a jewel in Johann Sebastian Bach’s baroque musical crown, is coming to life.
