Wonderful Christmas

We had a good turnout at Midnight Mass at Sturgeon Lake First Nation. Fr Travis Myrheim joined us at the school gym which turned out to be a great place for our celebration. It was beautifully decorated, and Danny Moosehunter had everything setup in advance. We had a wonderful celebration of our Saviour’s birth.

On Christmas day we joined the folks at the Community Christmas Dinner. We saw many people we knew there and stayed for about three hours. There was a record turnout this year with about 1800 people there. WOW.

We then went out to Sturgeon Lake and joined the folks at the Hall who were celebrating the Sturgeon Lake Community Christmas Dinner and ate again, and again when they had a traditional meal with a choice of moose heart soup or rabbit soup. Yumm it was good. We ended the day with a round dance. What a great Christmas.

Christmas Happenings

Tonight we will be joining friends at Sturgeon Lake First Nation for Midnight Mass. Fr. Travis Myrheim will be joining us at the school gym for Mass. Tomorrow we will join friends at St. Mary High School for the annual Prince Albert Community Christmas Dinner.

Merry Christmas

"Nora McAdam at Kateri House accepting knitted goods made by women from the Messiah Lutheran Church and other friends. She is taking them to the Big River Reserve and will distribute them there in time for Christmas."

Homelessness in Prince Albert

Tonight I had to leave a homeless man to sleep “in the bush” in town, watched him climb a slope and disappear in the brush, then went home to my warm house. Temperatures tonight are supposed to be around -7 degrees C. Brother Roy and I have had to deal with a lot of homelessness during this past month. There really aren’t any alternatives to explore anymore. We have tried all the options, and are finding no resources.

Easter 2011 at Sturgeon Lake SK

We had a beautiful celebration with Holy Cross Catholic community at Sturgeon Lake today — Mass (which we don’t have very often) with lots of kids present, two baptisms with the children’s great grandparents on both sides present. All followed by a turkey dinner for the whole congregation, and an Easter egg hunt for the kids (and kids at heart). Couldn’t have been better! Some pics…

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Enjoy!

Easter 2011 SLFN

Chrism Mass Celebration — April 19, 2011

Click here for Chrism Mass Slide Show:  some pictures taken by Mavis Longjohn at the celebration at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Prince Albert. Danny and Bev Moosehunter represented Holy Cross parish, Sturgeon Lake.  Also seen in the slideshow are folks from Beardy’s, One Arrow, Whitefish Lake, and other communities.

Danny and Bev Moosehunter with Bishop Albert Thevenot. Roy and Waltera in background.

Kateri Tekakwitha

On April 17th Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha’s feast day is celebrated in Canada. Today of course Passion Sunday eclipses Kateri’s special date. Check out some of her links (side bar). We were out at Sturgeon Lake today, did some home visits and baptism preparation. It’s hard for people to gather because of the muddy side roads, so not much attendance at church, but quite a few baptism requests. We are thankful for our 4×4.

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680)

Thank you!

Joel Rohs presents donation to Roy and Waltera

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Kateri House was presented with the proceeds of a benefit concert performed the week before by two bands, Thesaurus Rex and Nonsense, at the J.M. Cuelenaere Library. Thanks to Joel Rohs for organizing this event and to him and the other youthful musicians for sharing their talent. Thanks to all of you, musicians and audience, for your generosity! (Our apologies for being slow to get this posted, just a little technical glitch.)

The donation has been used to assist a young mom who needed money for travel and essentials so that she could take her two month old baby to Saskatoon for treatment of a heart condition. Thanks again to everyone who made this possible.

Sturgeon Lake

On Sunday March 27 we will have our usual service in Sturgeon Lake at the Lloyd Johnson Memorial Centre (the Healing Lodge) at 1:00 pm. The service will be followed by a meeting about building a new church. Our church burned down two years ago and quite a few people told us that they would like to build a new one. The last Holy Cross Church was blessed in 1986 (see separate page) and the one before that was last used in 1960. Rose and Mike Daniels were the last couple to be married there.

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