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Christmas Midnight Mass at Midnight at St. Francis Solanus Mission on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin is always very exciting! No parish in the area had Midnight Mass at midnight, except our Mission.

The office of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School in Greenville, SC celebrated Black Catholic History Month on November 30. 2023. In collaboration with the Office of Black Catholics the students created a program that focused on Sainthood using the arts.

Our annual Christmas program was celebrated on Friday, December 8, 2023. Christmas Around the Virgin Island was the theme. The program started with the Christmas Nativity.

In the fall of 2023, Bishop Mario Dorsonville hosted an event bringing all of the Native American communities together in celebration of faith.

Sunday, Oct. 22, Bishop Marshall was honored to celebrate Mass at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church in Mansura on the occasion of their 85th anniversary. Afterward they had a wonderful meal in the Ugandan Martyrs Center.

Bishop Robert Marshall celebrated the annual Mass for indigenous peoples at Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe) Mission in Forest Hill. The Mass traditionally invokes the intercession of St. Kateri Tekakwitha.

Dr. F. DeKarlos Blackmon OblSB led a delegation of Black Catholics from the Diocese of Austin to the historic quinquennial gathering of the Black apostolate.

On November 27, 2023, our students at Saint James Catholic School participated and completed the preliminary rounds of our School Wide Spelling Bee. They earned the spot of representing their grade level at our school-wide spelling bee.