St. Mary & St. Joseph Catholic Churches

Welcome

St. Mary - 15 1st Ave NE, Deer River

Mass Time 8:30 am

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Friday

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St. Joseph - 51061 Wolf Drive, Ball Club

Mass Time

Saturday 4:00 pm

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Confessions

1/2 hour before each Mass

Job Openings

Current job opening for an administrative assistant for our parish cluster. Job is approximately 20 hours per week. Employment starts May 1, 2021. Download forms below and return via email to [email protected] or mail to St. Mary's, PO Box 98, Deer River, MN 56636.

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Staff

Fr. Kuriakose Nediakala MCBS (Fr. KK), Administrator
Reenie Reuter, Administrative Assistant

Office Hours

Office Hours
9 - Noon
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

Message from Fr. KK

Spiritual Communion

When unable to receive Holy Communion, it is a pious practice to make a Spiritual Communion. Say the following prayer of St.Francis:

I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart, I embrace You.. Oh ,never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love of Your love, who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.

Diocese News

Father Daniel Felton named bishop for Duluth Diocese

04/07/21 5:33 am

Today, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis has named the Very Rev. Daniel Felton, of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., to become the tenth bishop of the Diocese of Duluth. His episcopal ordination and installation as bishop of Duluth have been set for May 20.

Bishop-elect Daniel Felton

Father Mike Schmitz: Does God just coerce people into following him?

04/06/21 3:28 pm

I have recently been reading the Old Testament and have encountered some things that have troubled me. Among them is the way God talks about blessing those who obey him and cursing those who disobey him. I much prefer the New Testament and how Jesus reveals that God is love and calls us to love him. This just seems like God is coercing people into following him. What do I do?

The fact that you are wrestling with this demonstrates that you have an issue and are willing to engage with it rather than just ignore it. These are the kinds of questions that can lead to a deepening and maturing of faith, so I am very glad that you asked about this.

Bible podcast by Father Schmitz tops Apple Podcast list

02/03/21 3:50 pm

Father Mike Schmitz says that if you had asked him to come up with an idea for a podcast that rise to the top of Apple’s Podcast charts, “The Bible in a Year” wouldn’t have been it.

After all, he says, the podcast, put out by the Catholic publisher Ascension Press, is pretty simple: a few words of introduction, three readings from the Bible, and a few words of explanation, around 20 minutes all told.