Patty Bradway asked for Mary’s intercession when she was a child, but only recently, when she began praying a daily rosary for two of her adult children who aren’t practicing the faith, has the St. Pius X parishioner begun to understand the connection between Mary’s Immaculate Heart and Jesus’ Sacred Heart.
With the help of high school students, a faith formation teacher annually transforms one of the gathering spaces at St. Pius X in White Bear Lake into a labyrinth where explorers encounter Catholic saints.
The family of Gerald and Barbara Heil, the couple missing at sea for more than two months after their Italian cruise ship capsized, said it can finally “bring them home to rest."
Celia Hager, left, and other members of the youth group at St. Pius X in White Bear Lake taped cards to a wall inside the church building March 11 that were hand-written by parishioners and children in the faith formation program.
Nearly 800 people attended a memorial service Feb. 18 for Jerry and Barb Heil. It included readings and prayers by several of the Heils’ 14 grandchildren and a eulogy by the youngest of their four children.
Friends and parishioners of St. Pius X in White Bear Lake reflected on the lives of Jerry and Barb Heil during a prayer service Jan. 18. The couple is among those missing in the aftermath of a Jan. 13 cruise ship disaster.
Bishop Lee Piché, two St. Thomas Academy students and representatives from several Catholic schools and parishes are preparing to visit the Diocese of Kitui, Kenya, June 27 to July 12.
