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We are sorry to announce that we are out of our French Meat Pies! Please plan to join us for our next Meat Pie Bake on Saturday, October 26 to help us restock!

The morning of July 25, Pope Francis named Father Kevin Thomas Kenney, a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. All are invited to his episcopal ordination, which will take place at the Cathedral of St. Paul and live streamed.

We are starting a Prayer Shawl Ministry at Our Lady of Lourdes. If you knit or crochet, and would like to participate in this ministry, please contact the Parish Office. We are also happy to accept donations of yarn for this project!

This Sunday, July 14th, from 2:00-3:00pm a there will be a Holy Hour of Prayer and Thanksgiving at the Cathedral for Bishop Williams’ years as a priest and bishop in our diocese.

In observance of Memorial Day, the Parish Office at Lourdes will be closed this Monday, May 27th. Happy Memorial Day!

On May 26th, one of the four National Eucharistic Pilgrimages will be passing through Northeast Minneapolis, via the Marian Route. The next day on Monday, May 27th, the Source and Summit Eucharistic Procession will begin at the St. Paul Seminary. Please click for more information about these beautiful acts of public devotion connected to the National Eucharistic Revival!

Summer Office Hours are now in effect until September. On Fridays, the Parish Office will close at 12:00pm noon.

The Parish Office will be closed on Christmas Day as well as the day after Christmas (December 26). For the rest of the week—Wednesday the 27th through Friday the 29th--the office will only be open from 9am-2pm. The 12:05pm Masses will still be offered as usual at Lourdes on Tuesday the 26th through Friday the 29th.

We are happy to offer daily Advent Reflections from Bishop Robert Barron this year.

The Parish Office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day (November 23) and Friday, November 24. There will not be a public celebration of Mass on that Friday either. Happy Thanksgiving!

We would LOVE to have a children’s choir to sing a few songs at our 3:00pm Christmas Eve Mass! (please click for more information!)

Our Parish Choir will soon be resuming their ministry of singing for the 10:30am Mass on Sundays! (click for more info)

We would love to be able to add more cantors to our music ministry at Our Lady of Lourdes! Cantors serve an important role by proclaiming the Responsorial Psalm and Gospel, chanting the proper Introit and Communio, and singing the remaining parts of the Mass with the gathered assembly. Please contact Nicole Millner, Director of Sacred Liturgy & Music ([email protected]) if you would like to learn more!

Archbishop Hebda's Pastoral Letter on the Synod, "You Will Be My Witnesses," is now available on the archdiocesan website: https://www.archspm.org/synodletter/

The Parish Office at Our Lady of Lourdes will be closed on Thursday, November 23rd and Friday, November 24th. There will be no 12:05pm Mass on Friday, November 24th. Happy Thanksgiving from Our Lady of Lourdes!

Although the first class is Sunday, October 23rd, it's not too late to register your child for faith formation classes this year! Registration is all online; click through for more information!

Like many of you, I had a wonderful, faith-filled mother. She was my first religion teacher, and she was still teaching me about faith when at 91 she simply did not wakeup one morning. When she died, the only thing I wanted was the table she sat beside every night to read the Bible ... [click to read more]

After the joy and splendor of the fifty-day celebration of Easter, we enter what the modern Church calendar labels as “Ordinary Time.” While the word “ordinary” may evoke more of a hum-drum, uneventful quality for us today, this is simply the Church describing that we are in ordered/ordinal, or numbered time (hence, the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time) ... [click to read more]