VOL. 79 NO. 10 WWW.BISMARCKDIOCESE.COM NOVEMBER 2020 Dakota Catholic Action Reporting on Catholic action in western ND since 1941 Public association established First-ever focused on Montessori education By Sonia Mullally DCA Editor The Bismarck Diocese is home to the very-fi rst public association in the Catholic giving world dedicated to the event Dec. 1-3 Montessori method of Bishop David Kagan and Bishop education. John Folda have announced a Bishop Kagan special giving opportunity for all established the Servants Catholics in North Dakota called of the Children of Light, #GiveNDCatholic. This fi rst-ever, joint a Public Association of fundraising event for the Diocese of the Christian Faithful Bismarck and the Diocese of Fargo for Women in view of gives all Catholics in North Dakota an becoming a religious opportunity to support their favorite institute of diocesan Catholic organizations and charities rite. The new public on Dec. 1-3. association is dedicated A designated, secure website link to contemplative prayer will be created and featured on both and focused on Catholic dioceses’ websites which will allow Montessori education. anyone to click and choose Catholic The foundress and organizations and charities being fi rst member, Julie highlighted by each diocese. Both Jacobson, serves as a bishops have selected the Catholic catechist in the atrium organizations and charities they at the Christ the King wanted to focus on for this inaugural Catholic Montessori #GiveNDCatholic event. School. She’s taken the This special three-day donation new religious name event helps kick off the charitable Sister Chiara Thérèse season, promotes year-end giving and received her habit and brings the North Dakota Catholic during an investiture Community together to give thanks Mass with Bishop for all the blessings God has bestowed Kagan on Oct. 1. She upon them and an opportunity to will take her fi rst vows share their blessings with good on Jan. 3, the Feast of Catholic organizations and charities. the Epiphany. There, The event is being held at the same her white veil will be time as the #GivingTuesday event, replaced with a black which is a 24-hour, global day of one signifying that she is online giving held on the Tuesday professed. Photos by Deacon Joe Krupinsky following Thanksgiving, Black Friday Historic development Bishop Kagan bestows a blessing upon and Cyber Monday. Sr. Chiara Thérèse, the foundress and This is a historic fi rst member of the newly-established An exciting benefi t of donating to development for the Servants of the Children of Light during this inaugural #GiveNDCatholic event diocese and for Catholic the investiture Mass. is that $25,000 has been secured Montessori education. to be used as matching gifts for the The Italian physician in their learning space fi rst $25,000 raised in each diocese. and educator, Maria Montessori, can succeed based on Donations of any size are allowed, and is best known for the philosophy their personal educational all donations qualify for a charitable of education, bearing her name, needs. The guide’s role tax contribution. Donations may be that she studied and perfected is to remove obstacles to made online or mailed directly to more than 100 years ago. The this natural development each diocese. More information and a Servants of the Children of and provide the children Sister Chiara Thérèse after the investiture list of the Catholic organizations and Light is the very-fi rst in the with opportunities to move Mass on Oct. 1. charities will appear in the next issue world devoted to the Montessori forward and grow. Children of the Dakota Catholic Action. method of education. become independent Montessori’s method was thinkers and problem-solvers founded on the observation through a hands-on learning A LOOK INSIDE that children who have the method when they work at their freedom to act independently Continued on page 4 Eucharistic procession School addition Four Minot parishes led a Eucharistic Light of Christ Catholic Schools o cially procession through the city with a opened the new addition at Saint Anne message of prayer and peace ....Page 5 School ...........................................Page 7 | NOVEMBER 2020 2 Dakota Catholic Action Bishop David D. Kagan Membership in the communion of saints of All Souls; both days recall also composed of all who in and each of us living now has FROM THE BISHOP for us the eternal destiny their earthly lives were faithful been and will be judged justly Almighty God wills for each of to God and His Church, but and mercifully by the same us if we but listen to Him and died with some of the effects Lord Jesus at the moment of act on His word in the course of their sins still attached to our deaths not on our good of our lives. them and thus, while judged intentions, but on what we did To be clear, when we profess worthy of heaven, need to be or did not do for and to Him in our faith in the communion of cleansed or purged of these the least of His brethren. saints, we are stating clearly effects of sins in purgatory and So, we come to this month that we believe and know to they will go to heaven when of the communion of saints be true that there are four their time of purification is and what should we do? Pray last things: death, judgment, complete. The communion of to the saints to intercede for heaven and hell. When we saints is also composed of all us with the Lord, pray for profess our faith in the of us who are alive and still the holy souls in purgatory communion of saints, we are striving to be faithful to our who cannot any longer help stating clearly that our earthly baptismal vocation to be holy themselves, but rely on lives are the times given to and still striving to be holy the prayers and sacrifices each of us during which we and virtuous in the particular of others to sustain them either accept by a holy and vocations God has given us. and hasten the day of their virtuous life or reject by a What makes us a entrance into heaven. Pray for Bishop David D. Kagan sinful life God’s gift of faith communion of saints is ourselves in all sincerity and for the salvation of our souls. our common faith received truth for greater fidelity to The month of November by From an early age, we in baptism, ratified and God and His Church and strive a long tradition has been the should have learned that completed in confirmation, daily to imitate the lives of the month in the Church’s year of the communion of saints is sustained, renewed and saints who have gone before us grace and favor from the Lord composed of the saints in strengthened in the Most in faith. when we celebrate liturgically heaven who possess perfect Holy Eucharist, restored in These two wonderful the article of Catholic faith and eternal joy in seeing God reconciliation, and made days remind us of the great regarding the Communion face to face, that is, the saints manifest in lives of true and inheritance we have received of Saints. In fact, Nov. 1 is possess the beatific vision and abiding charity in imitation of but also remind us that the Solemnity of All Saints, therefore need nothing else. the Lord Jesus Christ. we must not squander this followed by Nov. 2, the Feast The communion of saints is Every saint in heaven, inheritance. Our eternity every holy soul in purgatory, depends on it! BISHOP IN ACTION BISHOP’S SCHEDULE NOVEMBER 2020 Nov. 1 • Confi rmation Mass at Nov. 13 • Cabinet Meeting, Chancery, Church of Queen of Peace, Bismarck, 10 a.m. Dickinson, 12 p.m. MT Nov. 18 • Catholic Charities Board of • Confi rmation Mass at Directors Meeting, Center Church of St. Joseph, for Pastoral Ministry, Dickinson, 2 p.m. MT Bismarck, 12 p.m. Nov. 3 • Mass for Deceased Clergy, Nov. 19 • Real Presence Radio Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Banquet, Bismarck Event Bismarck, 11 a.m. Center, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 • Gold Mass, University of Nov. 20 • Diaconate Ordination, Mary, Bismarck, 10 a.m. Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Bismarck, 2 p.m. Nov. 5 • Director’s Staff Meeting, Center for Pastoral Ministry, Nov. 22 • Confi rmation Mass at Bismarck, 10 a.m. Church of St. Martin, Hazen, 10 a.m. Nov. 8 • Confi rmation Mass at Church of St. Mary, Nov. 24 • Real Presence Radio Foxholm, 10:30 a.m. Interview, 9 a.m. • Confi rmation Mass at Nov. 26 • Thanksgiving Day Mass, Photo by Deacon Joe Krupinsky Church of St. Leo the Great, Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Bishop Kagan stands before the faithful with his crozier in hand at the investiture Mass for Minot, 2 p.m. Bismarck, 8 a.m. the newly-established Servants of the Children of Light at Christ the King in Mandan. 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