Bring your family and meet your friends at the annual St Olaf Fun Fest! We present a day of fun, food, music and prizes. 

Enjoy live music from the band 40 Fingers, a pulled pork dinner, a classic car show, lots of games for kids, and activities for all ages—plus a cash raffle.

Relive the musical glory of 17th-Century México.

Music from New Spain. La Grande Bande, an ensemble of professional orchestral and vocal specialists in the Baroque period, conducted by founder Michael Asmus, will present music written by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, the music director of the Basílica Catedral Metropolitana in Puebla, México from 1628 until 1664. This is a not to be missed opportunity to hear grand, indigenous, Mexican Sacred Music in Our Lady’s Shrine.

Join us as we celebrate the music of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, the Cathedral’s famed music director from 1628 to 1664. His music played a key role in the Cathedral’s consecration in 1649.

Pre-concert lecture at 6:45pm.

URL: 
https://guadalupeshrine.org/post/events/mexican-baroque-2025/

Join us for in-person or virtual participation.

We are pleased to have Serenalla Del Cinque, a consecrated virgin from Rome, as a guest. She will share how this treasure was reinstated in the Church during the Second Vatican Council through the direction of Milan’s Cardinal Montini, and then as he became Pope Paul VI. Following her virtual presentation, we will explore the basics of the gift using the Rite of Consecration and insights from other consecrated virgins and candidates as they have lived this “gift in the Church and for the Church” _{Pope Benedict XVI.}

The registration form is available here or by contacting Barbara Swieciak: bswieciak@diolc.org, 608-788-7700, ext. 2271.

Join us for in-person or virtual participation.

We are pleased to have Serenalla Del Cinque, a consecrated virgin from Rome, as a guest. She will share how this treasure was reinstated in the Church during the Second Vatican Council through the direction of Milan’s Cardinal Montini, and then as he became Pope Paul VI. Following her virtual presentation, we will explore the basics of the gift using the Rite of Consecration and insights from other consecrated virgins and candidates as they have lived this “gift in the Church and for the Church” _{Pope Benedict XVI.}

The registration form is available here or by contacting Barbara Swieciak: bswieciak@diolc.org, 608-788-7700, ext. 2271.

This second event coincides with the Jubilee of Families, which will be celebrated in Rome. At this event, Fr. Dan Sedlacek will offer a reflection on the virtue of hope.


Schedule

2:00 PM – Holy Hour with Jubilee Reflection by: Fr. Dan Sedlacek – Main Church

2:00 PM – 3:20 PM – Confessions – Main Church

3:30 PM – Benediction – Main Church

4:00 PM – Holy Mass with Papal Blessing – Main Church.

Two Plenary Indulgences may be obtained by attending this event. For the Jubilee year Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Eau Claire has been designated as a pilgrimage site. By completing a pilgrimage to this church the Jubilee plenary indulgence may be obtained under the usual conditions.

At the end of the Holy Mass, Bishop Battersby will impart the Papal Blessing with the attached plenary indulgence, obtainable by all the faithful who receive this Blessing under the usual conditions.

“Despite the rule that only one plenary indulgence can be obtained per day (cf. Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, IV ed., norm. 18, § 1), the faithful who have carried out an act of charity on behalf of the souls in Purgatory, if they receive Holy Communion a second time that day, can obtain the plenary indulgence twice on the same day, applicable only to the deceased” (Decree on the Granting of Indulgence during the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025, III).