Parishes looking for more information email ourcatholicrevival@gmail.com or call 320-250-7207
Cross Rocks ACC
January 2026 adopt the of "Our Lady of the Holy Cross"
July 1, 2026 merge 5 parishes into one legally
Legal paperwork we will be known as Holy Cross
No Sunday masses at Our Lady of Mount Carmel (opole) and Holy Cross (North Prairie)
Saturday 5pm- Rice Sunday 8am- Royalton Sunday 10 am- Bowlus
October 2026- Closing mass in Opole and North Prairie
2027- list churches for sale with removal of building if not sold in allotted time
distance between other churches outside cross rock ACC
St. Stanislaus, Bowlus to St. Mary's, Upsala (12min)
St. Stanislaus, Bowlus to All Saints (St. Mary's), Holdingford (11 min)
St. Stanislaus, Bowlus to Our Lady of Lourdes, Little Falls (16min)
Holy Trinity, Royalton to Our Lady of Lourdes, Little Falls (14mins)
Holy Trinity, Royalton to St. Francis Xavier, Sartell (20 min)
Holy Trinity, Royalton to St. Stephen (16 min)
Immaculate Conception, Rice to Sacred Heart, Sauk Rapids (15mins)
Immaculate Conception, Rice to All Saints, Holdingford (18 mins)
Immaculate Conception, Rice to St. Peters and Paul's, Gilman (17 min)
Haven of Mercy ACC
After the merger: close Flensburg and Sobieski. Work out plans to build a new church, hire a consulting firm to coordinate other closures
Merger- June 2026
All Things New - Haven of Mercy Catholic - Little Falls, Randall, Flensburg & Sobieski, MN
Mary and the Saints
Goal 1:
1) St. Columbkille (St. Wendel) parish will merge with Immaculate Conception (St. Anna) by end of 2026
St. Columbkille will remain open as an oratory for an additional year while exploring option for sale. If by the end of 2027, there is no option for sale, removal of building would be considered.
2) St. Francis (St. Francis), St. Edward's (Elmdale), and St. Mary's (Upsala) would merge into 1 corporation by the end of 2026. St. Francis would remain open as an oratory for additional year while exploring option for sale. If by the end of 2027 no option for sale, removal would be considered. At this time St. Edward's would remain open as an oratory.
3) After completion of new church 2-3 years, All Saints- St. Mary's and All Saints- St. Hedwig's would close. an attempt to sell the buildings will be made, if not sold within a year, removal would be considered.
Mary, mother of the church acc
Merge to one parish
Primary churches: Scared Heart, St. Ann
Partner Churches: St. Michael, St. Hubert or St. John the Baptist
Closing: Our lady of Assumption (Menahga), St. Fredrick (Verndale), St. Joseph (Bertha), and St. Hubert (Bluegrass) or St. John the Baptist (Bluffton)
One In Faith ACC
Goal 1: West ACC
primary and partner: St. John the Baptist parish, Meire Grove St. Mary parish, Melrose
Close: St. Michael parish, Spring Hill St. Andrew parish, Greenwald
Goal 2: East ACC Phased Consolidation
Immaculate Conception parish, New Munich and St. Rose of Lima parish, St. Rosa to close and merge into Sacred Heart parish, Freeport
Canon Law
“Can. 1222 §1. If a church cannot be used in any way for divine worship and there is no possibility of repairing it, the diocesan bishop can relegate it to profane but not sordid use.
§2. Where other grave causes suggest that a church no longer be used for divine worship, the diocesan bishop, after having heard the presbyteral council, can relegate it to profane but not sordid use, with the consent of those who legitimately claim rights for themselves in the church and provided that the good of souls suVers no detriment thereby.”
"Ordinarily, also in this case, the legitimate causes for decreeing such a reduction do not include reasons like the lack of clergy, demographic decline or the grave financial state of the Diocese. However, if the building is in such a state as to be unable to be used for divine worship in any way, and there is no possibility of repairing it, then the Bishop can proceed, according to the norm of law, to reduce it to profane but not sordid use."
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