By Kristi Anderson The Visitor Every year the Becker/Big Lake youth group from Mary of the Visitation Parish participates in a mission trip. For many years, they traveled out of state. This year, for the second time, the group, which calls itself, “Youth for Truth,” served the local community instead of heading somewhere else. The…
The Visitor asked Erin Anderson, a junior at Cathedral in St. Cloud, pictured in photo at right, to reflect on her recent trip to the Dominican Republic, part of the Global Issues class at the school. The trip was planned and led by teacher Dick McMorrow. “All trips I lead from Cathedral have the same…
By Sue Schulzetenberg-Gully The Visitor On a blustery Sunday night, about 50 youth from central Minnesota slipped on their coats and gloves and headed to Holy Family School in Sauk Centre. Friendly teenagers greeted them at the door, directing them to locations for volleyball, basketball and board games. Lively chatter filled the hallways and overflowed…
The Visitor The 26th annual St. Cloud Diocesan Senior High Youth Rally, with the theme “Rise Up,” will be from 11:45 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at St. John’s University in Collegeville. John Angotti, a Tennessee musician and writer of Christian music, is the featured keynoter. Although he recently was injured in a…
Holdingford youth pay tribute at children’s cemetery Twenty-one teens and five chaperones from the Holdingford Area Catholic Youth group traveled July 28 to Owatonna, Minn., to tour the Museum of the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children, and Cottage 11. Harvey Ronglien, who had spent much of his life at the facility,…
By Karen Osborne Catholic News Service What is a true friend? When I was younger, friendship was defined more by convenience than by choice. My best friend at school was the kid who always let me eat her candy. My best friend at day care was the only other girl who preferred reading instead of…
April 11, 2014, edition The Father Pierz Fourth Degree Assembly of the Knights of Columbus sponsor an annual essay contest for St. Cloud’s Cathedral School students from grades eight through 11 with the topic “The responsibility of the Catholic citizen.” This year’s contest drew about 150 entries, according to Lynn Grewing, principal of Cathedral School….
August 30, 2013, edition By Megan Behrens Lately when people ask me what I’m doing with my life, I get two very different reactions to my response; half the people will light up and say “How exciting! What an adventure!” and the others will ask with confusion “Isn’t that scary? Aren’t you nervous?” God has…
August 16, 2013 edition By Rob Schumer We were supposed to return home from World Youth Day in Rio de Janerio July 31, but things didn’t go as planned. On Monday evening, one of our pilgrims discovered he had lost his passport. It was too late to get to the consulate to get a new…
August 16, 2013 edition From the Father Pierz School of Religion, 62 youth and eight adults traveled July 12-14 to attend the Steubenville Youth Conference, a ministry of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. Teens raised funds all year to participate, an annual highlight for the youth groups in the parishes of Holy Cross in…
