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Please join us to celebrate Christmas and the new year at Ascension: Christmas Eve 3:30 PM – Carols 4:00 PM – Mass Christmas Day 9:30 AM   – Mass in English 11:30 AM – Mass in Spanish

The priority and the value we place on our relationships with one another are the core of who we are at Ascension. As a faith community our relationships extend well beyond the boundaries of our Sunday worship and the space in which we gather. We serve together, we celebrate together, we mourn together, we growContinue Reading

Today, August 29th, Ascension Catholic Grade School welcomed back its students for the 114th time since its founding in 1897. Much has changed in the intervening years, but our school’s commitment to providing the very best education to all of its students remains the bedrock and foundation upon which our many successes have been built.

Neighbors meeting neighbors, the sounds of children playing, a plateful of delicious food and prizes, prizes galore! Just another successful edition of the annual Neighborhood Night of Peace hosted at Ascension. To everyone who made it out, thank you for making it another fun filled evening. And if you weren’t able to join us, maybeContinue Reading

Join your Ascension neighbors in the church parking lot tonight (Wednesday, August 3) from 5:30–7 PM for our annual Neighborhood Night of Peace celebration.

It was a musical week here at the parish as Ascension hosted twenty-one young singers from throughout the Twin Cities for The Basilica of Saint Mary Choir Camp. This was the first time this annual summer camp was held at Ascension — in the past it has taken place at The Basilica — but itContinue Reading

After some fitful starts, it seems that summer is finally here to stay. The signs are clear: the sun is shining, the lawnmowers are a-roaring, and people are walking by with that extra spring in their step. At Ascension, for a number of years the surest sign of summer’s arrival has been the coming ofContinue Reading

Members of this parish bear witness daily to the power of prayer: we see it in the gifts granted to us — our beautiful sanctuary filled each week with our friends and neighbors, our parish school with its talented and promising young students — and many of us have felt the blessings of prayer directlyContinue Reading