Two beautiful paintings, "The Sorrowful Mother" and "The Passion of Jesus", both by Mildred Anna Heiser Griffith, will be dedicated on Friday, May 24th at Our Lady of Lourdes. These paintings were created while Mildred was a teenager. Following her marriage to Dr. Joseph Griffith, her focus turned to raising her family, which included a son, Bill Griffith Sr. and later a grandson, Father Dan Griffith! Join us for noon Mass and the dedication. Everyone is welcome!

Join us between the Sunday morning Masses on May 19th for our new parishioner welcome and registration! Current parishioners, please join us for coffee, conversation and a chance to say hello! Hofstede Hall beginning at 9:30 am!

The results are in, and thanks to our generous supporters, WE MADE OUR FUND A NEED GOAL! Because of all of you, our Matthew 25 Fund, Precious Jewel Perpetual Fund, and parish operations, will benefit from the proceeds of this evening of fun and fellowship. THANK YOU!!! (Photo album coming soon!)

From his recent experience at several forums on the church crisis, and from the celebration of the Sacred Triduum, Fr. Griffith offers a comprehensive reflection on the church crisis through the lens of Biblical and Catholic theology in this article titled, "From the Pit of Destruction to the Grace of Redemption: Biblical and Theological Foundations for the Renewal of the Catholic Church."

The reason we recognize the theme of restoration so prominently manifested on the Feasts of Christmas and Easter is because the work of restoration is central to the mission of Christ. We believe by faith that God’s incarnate love in Christ culminated in the paschal mystery of Christ – his dying and rising. Through the death and resurrection of Christ all of humanity is “wonderfully restored” and indeed reconciled to love of the Father ...

From Father Griffith: The three days from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday are regarded by the Catholic Church as the holiest days of the Church year. These days are called the Sacred Triduum, which means the “Great Three Days.” The Triduum is one feast and one continuous liturgy that takes place at the beginning of Holy Thursday and culminates with the Easter Vigil. These days are meant to be experienced together as continuous. Therefore, I invite the parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes to come and experience the profound mysteries that are central to our Catholic faith...

Holy Thurday, Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7:00 pm followed by Eucharistic Adoration until 9:15 pm | Good Friday, Stations of the Cross at Noon and The Lord's Passion at 3:00 pm | Easter Vigil, Mass at 8:00 pm | Easter Sunday, Mass at 9:00 and 11:00 am.

Father Dan Griffith in "The Catholic Spirit" - Many Catholics hope that the unprecedented anti-abuse summit held in Rome will usher in a sea change for the Church in its handling of clergy abuse and the attendant cover-up...

Eucharistic Adoration, Friday afternoons during Lent, followed by Stations of the Cross at 5 pm. Stay for the fish fry beginning at 5:30 pm! The Lourdes Men's Club Lenten Retreat will begin with Mass at 8 am on Saturday. Father John Kelly and seminarians from the St. Paul Seminary will be at 5 pm Mass on Saturday to talk about their recent Pathways to Children mission trip to India. On Sunday, Prof. Liz Kelly is our featured speaker for our "Holiness & Mission" series, this week: "The Spirituality of the Beatitudes", beginning at 9:45 am in Hofstede Hall.

Eucharistic Adoration, Friday afternoons during Lent, followed by Stations of the Cross at 5 pm. On Sunday, Father David Haschka, S.J,. is our featured speaker for our "Holiness & Mission" series, this week: "Holiness and Scripture", beginning at 9:45 am in Hofstede Hall. Our next Lenten Fish Fry is April 5!

Our next Lenten Fish Fry is March 22nd! Eucharistic Adoration, Friday afternoons during Lent, followed by Stations of the Cross at 5 pm. On Sunday, Prof. Susan J. Stabile is our featured speaker for our "Holiness & Mission" series, this week: "Holiness and Scripture", beginning at 9:45 am in Hofstede Hall. Everyone is welcome!

Eucharistic Adoration, Friday afternoons during Lent, followed by Stations of the Cross at 5 pm. On Sunday, Father David Haschka, S.J. is our featured speaker for our "Holiness & Mission" series, this week: "Holiness and Scripture", beginning at 9:45 am in Hofstede Hall. Everyone is welcome!

On Friday, March 8th, Eucharistic Adoration is set for 12:30 till 4:30 pm; Stations of the Cross is at 5:00 pm; and the first of our three Lenten Fish Frys starts at 5:30 pm in Hofstede Hall!

"It's really happening in this room, tonight," Ramsey County Attorney John Choi told those gathered of the archdiocese's progress. "Where there's reconciliation, where people are acknowledging harm that was caused to all sorts of families..."

Our Lenten Faith and Family event, this Sunday!

Mass for the Feast of the Solemnity of Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation, is on Tuesday, January 1st at 10 am at Our Lady of Lourdes.

People living around Tijuana, Mexico are grappling with an unprecedented influx of migrants. The number of Central American migrants now at the shelter is estimated at 6,000. Fr Jesse Esqueda, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate (OMI) ...

“Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man…

At Christmas, with joyful hearts, we celebrate this awesome reality that out of love, God became one of us to redeem our very nature from within. Christmas can be celebrated from so many different aspects, but the word that sums up Christmas more than any other is Emmanuel, which means God with us. This is the beauty ...