Upcoming Events
Anniversary Mass
July 17 – Cathedral of St Joseph – Sioux Falls
July 24 – Sacred Heart, Aberdeen
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Anniversary Mass
Bishop DeGrood will be hosting a special mass for couples celebrating anniversaries of 25, 50, 60, 65+ during 2022. Invitations will be mailed directly to the couples, but we need your help in compiling the guest list.
PLEASE NOTE: We are doing things differently this year in hopes of making it easier for parish staff. We will run a Parish Soft report of couples with the corresponding wedding dates and email it to the parish for review. If your parish has not yet converted to electronic records, we will work with you to make sure your couples are still able to be invited. Please watch for an email from Audrey (aanderson@sfcatholic.org) during the first week of April.
If you are concerned that your records may not be complete, please feel free to post the following in your bulletin.
Bulletin Blurb: Bishop DeGrood will be celebrating a special mass for couples with milestone anniversaries. If you have an anniversary of 25, 50, 60, or 65+ years during 2022 please let the parish office know that you would like to be added to the guest list. Invitations will be mailed to you from the Bishop’s office in May.
Engaged Couples Guides
The Engaged Couples Guide to Marriage Prep for 2022-2023 will be available in early June. By default, we will once again be sending out an electronic version to each pastor and parish. If you would like to order printed copies for your parish in addition to the electronic version, please email Audrey (aanderson@sfcatholic.org) with your pastor’s name, parish name and the number of copies you would like. Orders are due no later than May 1st.
Synod on Synodality Update:
Thank you to all who helped make our February effort for the Diocesan Survey a tremendous success. We have received 4,000 responses! In early April, initial results from the “scaled” questions of the survey will be made available together with a short narrative summary on the diocesan Synod webpage. We will be taking a deep dive on the “long form responses” section by section about every six weeks or so throughout the year. The aim of the Steering Committee is to make as much data from the survey available in a way that is as user friendly as possible. The most up to date results will always be found on the diocesan Synod webpage. Again, thank you to all who helped make this a great success!