Text scam alert!

If you received a text message that claims to be from Fr. Bruce asking for a favor, do not respond. It is a scam text that several people have received.  Thank you and God bless you.

Viewing the Mass

You may watch Fr. Bruce celebrate the Mass at the OLG YouTube page on this website. The Sunday Mass (posted by 8:30 a.m.) will remain on the page until the next Sunday.  The daily Masses (posted by 9:00 a.m.) will be replaced each day.  If you want to go directly to our YouTube channel rather than watching through the website, click here.  Please subscribe to our YouTube page because we can give it a more easily found channel name once we get enough subscribers.  Thank you.

In addition: 
- You may watch the Mass (both English and Spanish) online at https://www.watchthemass.com/
- You may watch Bismarck Diocese Masses online at https://bismarckdiocese.com/
- You may watch Sunday Mass on TV on Channel 4 or 604 on KXND locally at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Sundays.

Plenary indulgence offered during the pandemic

A plenary indulgence has been offered to those who suffer from coronavirus, those who care for them and those who pray for them with these conditions:
Read the Vatican decree here.
Read the Catholic News Agency story explaining it here.

Statement by Fr. Bruce Krebs in response to the COVID-19 virus
     Cancellations and announcements

March 18, 2020

Lent is a time of prayer, fasting and giving alms – a time of sacrifice for the good of others and for the good of our souls.  In my 42 years as a priest I have never experienced a Lent like this, where a pandemic is being combatted with the cancellation of Masses, the most powerful prayer of the Church, the source and summit of our Catholic faith.  This is new to all of us, and we will get through this together as people who actively and vibrantly live our Catholic faith.

Living our faith will look differently for the next few weeks.  We will not be able to attend Mass or classes and activities related to our faith.  It seems to me that God is calling us to silence, to that invaluable one-on-one communication of prayer with Him.  We will be stronger Catholics, more compassionate Catholics, more devoted Catholics as a result of this time of trial.

Our final public Masses before the cancellations begin are Thursday, March 19, at 7:15 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.  Although we are required for the time being to cancel Masses, our church will remain open to you from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. every day so that you may come for times of private prayer while keeping a safe distance from others.  A tabernacle will be placed in the main church to allow for more people to pray before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  Our parish office will remain open from 9:00 a.m. to Noon and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and weekly bulletins will be available at the church entrances.  Our food pantry is temporarily closed but will re-open on Monday, March 23.  I will continue my ministry of the priesthood, offering confession, anointing the sick and serving the faithful in any ways that I am able. (Read the remainder of Fr. Bruce's statement here.)