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Today is the feast day of our patron saint, St. Cloud. Fathers Scott Pogatchnik and Doug Liebsch pray Day 9 – the last day – of the novena. They pray together at St. Cloud’s shrine, located inside St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud. After the prayer, Father Scott gives a short history of the shrine. […]

Today’s video comes from Villard, Minnesota, where Reed and Sarah Heidelberger pray Day 8 of the novena with their children. To learn more about the life of St. Cloud and for the full text of the novena, visit http://stcdio.org/about/saint-cloud-saint/.

Steve and Wendy Gessell pray together under the arch outside the Diocesan Pastoral Center in St. Cloud which Steve built and tends. Steve and Wendy are both staff members of the Diocese of St. Cloud. Join them in praying Day 7 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud.  

Today, Mayuli Bales, director of the diocesan Office of Multicultural Ministries and Venezuelan Father Oswaldo Roche pray Day 6 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud. They pray today in Spanish. If Spanish is not your native tongue, we encourage you to follow along with the English text below and enjoy the beauty of […]

Members of the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls join the Franciscan Community Volunteers pray together for Day 5 of the Novena of St. Cloud. To read more about the life of St. Cloud and for the full text of the novena, visit http://stcdio.org/about/saint-cloud-saint/

Residents of St. Benedict’s Senior Community in St. Cloud joined together to pray Day 4 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud. Please join in praying with them via video message by clicking on the link below. To read about the life of St. Cloud and for full text of the novena, visit http://stcdio.org/about/saint-cloud-saint/ […]

Today, campus ministers, along with Father Tony Oelrich, of Christ Church Newman Center in St. Cloud pray Day 3 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud whose feast day is September 7. To read about St. Cloud and for the full text of the Novena, visit http://stcdio.org/about/saint-cloud-saint/.

Today, members of the Men of Mary (I heart MOM), members of the parish council and Father LeRoy Schik from Our Lady of the Lake in Battle Lake pray Day 2 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud whose feast day is September 7. To read about St. Cloud and for the full text […]

Today, the St. Cloud Metro Young Adults group prays Day 1 of the Novena in honor of St. Cloud whose feast day is September 7. To read about St. Cloud and for the full text of the Novena, visit http://stcdio.org/about/saint-cloud-saint/.  

As the feast day of the patron saint of the Diocese of St. Cloud approaches Sept. 7, Catholics around the diocese are invited to learn more about the prince who was forced into a life of solitude because of his uncles’ plot to kill him, all while growing in grace and wisdom. Through a series […]