The Church of St. Agnes invites you to take an active role in the life of our parish. Consider checking out one of the many groups listed below or consider starting your own group. We welcome your participation.

Please come and join us!

We joyfully invite all women of Saint Agnes to join the Altar and Rosary Society and receive the spiritual and social benefits offered to its members. Come join us to pray for and serve our beloved Church of Saint Agnes!

We meet on the first Wednesday of most months. We begin by praying the rosary in the chapel at 4:50pm, continue by attending 5:15pm Mass and then serve refreshments in Schuler Hall where we have time to relax and enjoy each other's company. We then hold our business meeting which typically lasts about an hour (Bible study sometimes occurs before the Society meeting).

As an Altar and Rosary Society member, you will have the chance to meet and serve Saint Agnes parishioners during our annual Advent Bake Sale in December and Ice Cream Social in August, as well as serving at our monthly coffee, donut and egg sandwich Sundays and the Fall Festival.

In addition to these parish social events, members of the Altar and Rosary society assist with many other important roles caring for the precious articles used on and around the altar. These tasks include weekly cleaning of the upper church and chapel, laundering and care of altar linens, sewing new altar linens, repairing existing linens and vestments, and baking Eucharistic breads.

Membership is Easy!

Just come to say the Rosary, offer Mass, and meet the Altar and Rosary Society at one of our monthly meetings. You can visit and learn more and sign up right there. For more information, contact our Membership Chair, Jennifer Murphy, by emailing jmurphy110@comcast.net.

Click here for more details about the Altar and Rosary Society.

The St. Agnes Men's Club meets every third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM. The Men's Club has served the Parish since 1935 by assisting at social functions like the Fall Festival, having fund raisers like Egg Roll & Doughnut Sundays, and a wide variety of other activities.

Our organization is here to help St. Agnes and the St. Agnes schools. Please prayerfully consider helping the Men's Club in their very important mission.

Contact Terry Beaudry for more information:

• beaudrys@q.com
• 651-766-9149

The Church of Saint Agnes has a large homeschooling community spread across the Twin Cities and into western Wisconsin. Several homeschooling events are planned to bring us together and add parish life and involvement to our homeschools. For more information, please contact Amy Schaeffer at 651-774-4545 or arsbusymom@yahoo.com. .

Save the 4th Friday of every month, September - May, for a Church of Saint Agnes Homeschooling Family Event with talks/tours/activities, Mass, dinner and social time for the whole family. Find more details in the bulletin.

Communications about homeschool family events is primarily done via our weekly church bulletin and via email from the "Church of Saint Agnes Homeschoolers" (CoSAH) Yahoo group. Membership in the Yahoo group is restricted to registered parishioners of Saint Agnes who are currently homeschooling or are discerning homeschooling. To request access, please send an email requesting membership to CoSAH-owner@yahoogroups.com and a group moderator will send you an invitation to join. Please include your email and your full name. It may take a day or two for membership to be processed! Thank you and we hope to see you at future events!

Contact Amy Schaeffer for more information:

• arsbusymom@yahoo.com
• 651-774-4545

That Man is You! (TMIY!), hosted by the Men's Club, is an interactive, multimedia men's program focused on the development of authentic male leadership. TMIY! successively considers men in their relationship to God, their spouse and children, and those they encounter. It is a free, 3-year program that runs in semesters, 13 weeks at a time beginning in the fall with a break in December and resuming again after the New Year.

Please see this video for more details: Click Here

That Man is You! meets weekly on Thursday morning from 6:15 - 7:45. The meetings begin with breakfast and fellowship followed by a DVD presentation provided by the authors of TMIY! (Paradisus Dei foundation). An integral aspect of TMIY! is round table discussion of the particular topics presented in the video.

You are welcome to join us anytime!

For information or to register for TMIY! program, please contact Andrzej Noyszewski:

• andrzejkn@yahoo.com
• 651-202-6953

The Church of St. Agnes has long been well known for the magnificence and splendor of our traditional celebration of the Mass. The richness of these celebrations are punctuated by the well honed and fine tuned training our corps of altar servers. Boys wishing to join this army of servers must be at least 10 years old or in the fifth grade. They should register for training through the parish office and will then be invited to attend training as new teams form in the fall at the beginning of each new school year.

For more information, contact Donna Wright at:

• 952-898-3539

The Chamber Choir is an a capella group that sings renaissance music at the masses on the first Saturday of the month at 5:15 PM. Learn more about the Chamber Choir and their impressive repertoire of music from the High Renaissance. For more information on becoming a member of the choir, please contact Donna May at:

• dmay@stagnesschools.org
• 507-645-6967

The Legion of Mary is the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church. It has been active in the United States since 1931 and has been approved by the last 6 Popes. Members become instruments of the Holy Spirit working under the mantle of Mother Mary. Works include door-to-door evangelization, parishioner visitation, sidewalk counseling outside abortion centers and many other works. The Legion of Mary is, in essence, an extension of the heart and hands of the pastor. Many blessings come to members of the Legion of Mary.

We meet once a week on Tuesday at 6:15 PM in the Bride's room of the Church Hall for prayer, planning and discussion in a friendly setting. Please come to our meetings as a guest and see what we are all about.

For more information, please contact Andrzej Noyszewski:

• 651-202-6953
• www.legionofmaryarchspm.org

Meetings are held in the Kent Street Room. More information will be made available soon.

The Schola sings the beautifully orchestrated High Masses on Sunday at 10:00 AM. This group is under the direction of Paul Le Voir. Please visit the Schola Cantorum page to learn about the history of this group.

The Twin Cities Catholic Chorale, under the musical direction of Dr. Robert L. Peterson, sings Masses by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schubert and von Herzogenberg with professional orchestra at the 10 AM Latin High Mass about thirty Sundays of the year from October to the feast of Corpus Christi. Msgr Richard J. Schuler founded the Chorale in 1956. Its program at St. Agnes began in 1974. The Chorale program is financed by the Friends of the Chorale.

For your convenience, you may view the music schedule online. To receive a printed copy of the schedule, please send your name and address by e-mail to inquiry@catholicchorale.org, write to the Chorale at P.O. Box 4234, St. Paul, MN 55104 or call St. Agnes Church at 651-293-1710.

The Usher Corps assists the parish by greeting people as they arrive at St. Agnes, gathering the collection, directing parishioners during communion, and answering questions for visitors after Mass. As St. Agnes attracts many visitors from around the country, the Usher Corps serves an important role in assisting our guests.

If you are at least 18 years old and would like to serve as an usher either part time or every Sunday, please contact Mike Peterson for more information or simply talk to any of our ushers before or after Mass. Your help would be much appreciated.

Contact Dale Windingstad for more information:

• 651-482-0115