8:30 - 10:00 AM | St. Mark's Cafeteria For all women of the parish! Join your fellow women of the parish for a light breakfast, reflection, and a panel discussion on how to prepare homes and hearts for this liturgical season.

12:30 - 3:00 PM | Mendota Heights Remove invasive buckthorn [with extreme prejudice] and convert that labor into providing Christmas presents for poor children in the Peruvian Andes Mountains! RSVP

Following 10:00 AM Mass & Procession | Carolyn Hall Hand-Carved Olive Wood Gifts from the Holy Land Did you know that 600 Christian families living in Bethlehem are completely dependent on carving olive wood figurines for their livelihood? The recent clashes in the Middle East have stopped the tourism industry in Bethlehem, causing most of those families serious harm in earning their living and forcing many of them to leave their homeland. Emptying the land of Christ from C

Note Mass on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28) will be at 9 AM. There will be one Mass on Friday, Nov 29, at 10:00 AM. Also note that the adoration chapel will be closed starting with the 9 AM Mass on Thanksgiving and it will reopen following the 10 AM Mass on Monday, Dec 03.

Help the parish reach its Catholic Services Appeal $30,000 goal. Presently we're shy $16,000! Give and contribute to the works of mercy of our local church!

Tuesdays | 7:00 - 8:30 PM | Carolyn Hall Bring your bibles (Ignatius Study Bible (RSV) recommended) and your good will! This Fall...

8 AM - 12:30 PM JOIN ST. MARK’S AND MERCYWORKS FOR MERCY MORNING SCHEDULE 8AM - Mass 8:45AM - Breakfast send-off Various times - Serving at sites Practice the works of mercy with other members of the St. Mark’s family! We’ll be visiting Episcopal Homes and Lynnhurst residents, serving at various shelters, packing snack and hygiene bags on-site at St. Mark’s, and more! Sign up for a work of mercy here! We’re also asking for donations for the Snack and Hygiene bags we'll be pa

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM | School Cafeteria Join Pack/Troop 1 for a hearty, delicious pancake breakfast hosted by the Scouting units of St. Mark’s — a tradition dating back to 1910! As the oldest Catholic Scouting unit in America, they’re proud to continue building character, faith, and leadership. Come enjoy pancakes, fellowship, and fun while supporting our Scouts. They hope to see you there! Menu includes pancakes, sausage, fruit, milk, juice, coffee All you can eat (but pleas

The 2025 Annual Report is here! If you are a registered parishioner, your copy of the 2025 Annual Parish Report was not sent via mail. Physical copies were made available via the Oct 18-19 Sunday Bulletins and may be obtained through the parish office. Although perusing anything less than a physical copy is not recommended, we do have a digital copy available below! Not a parishioner? Got married? Moved? Please keep us up to date with such key information! Email parishcenter@

3:00 PM | Church There will be a concert at the church, featuring Kathy Handford—Director of Music and organist at the Church of St. Mark—as well as the Uptown Brass (players in the Minnesota Orchestra)! When? November 2nd at 3:00 PM! How much? Free (donations appreciated)!

3:00 - 4:30 PM | St. Mark's Gym Come dressed as your favorite saint and join us in celebrating! There'll be games, costume procession, crafts and more! Sponsored by Family Faith Formation and the Moms Group RSVP here

Head out at 10:45 AM From Carolyn Hall | Local Cemetery Obtain indulgences for the departed in the first eight days of November. What's more, praying for the holy souls is a work of mercy! Even better, what if we did it as a group?! Following the 9 AM Mass, the faithful are invited to Coffee and Donuts whereafter there will be a dismissal at 10:45 to go to a local cemetery and there pray for the peaceful repose of the holy souls!

And also this weekend after 9:00 & 11:00 AM Masses Experience compounding spiritual joys and growth! But how? Why, by knowing your gifts and using them! And better to invest a little time NOW in knowing your gifts! And then put them to use with gusto! To that end, our pastor et al want to STRONGLY encourage you to take a very user-friendly spiritual gifts inventory! Quick! Free! And results known only to you, your guardian angel, God, and maybe the facilitating website (to

Church of St. Mark | 10:00 AM With praise and gratitude to almighty God, the General Superior, the members of Pro Ecclesia Sancta, and the family of our sister, request the honor of your presence at the Mass of Temporal Vows of: Sister Teresa Alexandria Kostick, P.E.S. which will be presided by the Most Reverend Bernard A. Hebda, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Prayer Campaign: Sep. 24 - Nov 2, 7 AM - 6 PM | Planned Parenthood | 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM St Mark’s, along with Nativity of Our Lord, is adopting two days of prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood (671 Vandalia St) as part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign. St. Mark's/Nativity will be covering Friday October 17 and Tuesday 28. The goal is to have at least 2 dedicated prayer volunteers per hour at Planned Parenthood on these days, peacefully praying for all

(As of 2025 Oct 08): Get your directory If you had your photo taken, or submitted photos, for the 2024 Parish Directory, then you can pick up yours at the parish center during office hours! Directory App But even if you didn't do the above, know this: with this print directory the parish community also has access to a directory app that can be edited and added to! More on updating or being added to the directory may be found below: This, along with the print directory, can b

What do we do with a post-school campus? A committee was explored to explore answering that critical question! Their preliminary report...

5:30 - 7:30 PM | Carolyn Hall It's Anno Domini 2025! And around here, and in the greater archdiocese, it's a year dedicated to Living...

Updated (Sep 12): Come join other St. Mark’s women in a series of joyful and live-giving workout nights! As St. Paul says, “Do not run...

School Playground/Quad | 11:00 AM Rusty can't be baptized (one of the many reasons for him not being able to go up on the couch), but...