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March 7, 2025Sunday, March 23
5:30pm Soup supper @ St. Cecelia Presentation Center, Algona
6:20pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
6:30pm Talk
Monday, March 24
7:30am Mass @ Bishop Garrigan School Chapel, Algona
5:30pm Confessions @ St. Cecelia, Algona
6:15pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
6:30pm Talk
Tuesday, March 25
8:30am Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul, West Bend
12:00pm Lunch with Fr. Ambrose followed by talk @ St. Cecelia Presentation
Center, Algona
5:30pm Confessions @ St. Cecelia, Algona
6:20pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
6:30pm Talk
Wednesday, March 26
8:40am School Mass @ St. Cecelia, Algona
5:30pm Confessions @ St. Cecelia, Algona
6:20pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
6:30pm Talk
Reception to follow in the Presentation Center
Father Ambrose Criste is a Norbertine canon regular from St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California. He grew up in Colorado and graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Classics/History/Politics. He won the Rhodes Scholarship and began a graduate degree at Oxford University before answering God's call to religious life and the priesthood. He entered the monastery in 2000, made solemn profession in 2006, and was ordained a priest in 2008. He finished his priestly studies in Rome with pontifical degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has served in various roles for his abbey community, including vocations director, novice master, and director of seminary formation. He currently resides at Corpus Christi Priory in Springfield, Illinois, and is the director of the Evermode Institute, a new program of catechetical formation.
