St. Mary and St. Anthony Catholic Churches in Rocky Boy and Box Elder continue to catechize the youth in their parishes. The After School 21st Century program at Rocky Boy and Box Elder Schools supports the Faith Formation programs.
Sr. Roselyn tells Indigenous stories every month at the local catholic grade school which includes St. Mary’s students as well as the Ashland, Wi community.
The diocese completed cultural acclimation with several of its new mission priests and was able to permanently assign them to parishes in rural Alaska.
On Monday May 27th the annual Memorial Day Mass was celebrated at St. Mathew Church near Veblen S.D. Fr. Gregg Frankman was the celebrant. Fr. Frankman will be retiring July 1st.
For the first time in more than four years, on the first Friday of April, Fr. Mike Fitzpatrick, S.J., the director of KNMI, headed out from Oregon and drove to the Ursuline Centre in Great Falls, Montana, to begin once again to have Kateri weekend meetings.