Pastor
Monsignor
Jeffrey Wald
Coordinator of Catechesis
Preschool - Grade 12
Jeff Benda
Father Darin Didier Memorial Scholarship
These scholarships are available for high school seniors
who are active members of Holy Spirit Parish.
Guidelines click here
Application click here
Application Deadline is May 1, 2012
Congratulations to the 2011 Scholarship Recipients who each were awarded a $500 Scholarship
Fr. Didier, 32, died September 6, 2005 following a lengthy struggle with cancer.
His ordination Mass had been celebrated only three months earlier, June 4, at
the Cathedral of St. Mary’s in Fargo.
Fr. Didier served Holy Spirit Parish as our assistant pastor during the months before his death. We lost a great priest, but heaven has gained a great intercessor for us.
In an article Father Didier wrote while he was a seminarian, after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he expressed the value of suffering:
“God
order all things in his Divine Providence to help us to know
and to accept His great love for us. His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ,
showed perfect humility by becoming man and accepting an agonizing
death as part of God’s plan for our salvation. God loved His Son from
all eternity. Should we want to be treated any different than the Son
of God, who was faced with the challenge of the cross as part of God’s
providence? Jesus said, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross daily and follow me’” (Luke 9:23).
For more information, or to make a
donation, please E-Mail Jeff Benda, Coordinator of Catechesis, Grades Preschool
- 12, or call 701-232-5900 (office) 701-799-8299 (cell.)
