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What is it?
The Nazareth House is a guest house for visiting clergy, seminarians, and others. For example, six seminarians just spent their January term there. (During which a piece of the living room ceiling collapsed!) A whole van-load of high school girls from central Minnesota spent a weekend there in March while making a "Nun Run" to visit the Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus. It currently features just one bedroom and one bathroom!
Are there uses for parishioners?
This seems expensive just for hosting guests... Indeed, which is why you need to understand that many other activities also take place there. Current and future usage includes:- Young Adult brunches and Scripture discussions every Sunday (often two dozen people or more)
- High School and Middle School Youth group activities
- Hosting small groups (e.g. Exodus 90, Bible studies, "Saintly Salons," priestly discernment group, forthcoming synod small groups )
- Dinners and receptions for special events
- Almost 5k square feet with open floorplan for flexible usage
- Four bedrooms and five bathrooms (2 upstairs, 2 main floor, 1 downstairs)
- Could easily host five concurrent "break-out" sessions (small groups)
- Large lower level "rec room" for youth group activities
- Lower level storage area
Timeline:
We would like to start this summer and occupy it before the snow flies. We have too many programs which use it to go an entire program year without this space. For this ambitious construction timeline, we need to know of your support as soon as possible! -
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