75th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM

Father Kevin Finnegan, Father Nathan Hastings and our former pastors, Father Bob Schwartz and Father Eugene Pouliot, celebrated our 75th Anniversary of Our Lady of Grace (OLG) Catholic Church with over 1,000 current and former parishioners!

We celebrated with an outdoor Mass at 10:00AM on Sunday, September 19th on the OLG School courtyard. After Mass we continued to celebrate with food, beverages, inflatables, bingo, yard games, and more!

It was a great day of fellowship, celebration and blessings of 75 years at OLG!

OLG 75th Anniversary Year: 75 Years of Grace

75 years ago, the Catholic community here in Edina had a big vision: rather than purchase 2 acres that would meet their needs as a parish at the time, they boldly invested in 21 acres for the site of Our Lady of Grace. They did this, as Bishop Andrew Cozzens so beautifully put it, “to establish a place that would remind the world of Christ’s coming.” Bishop Cozzens, who made a special visit this past Sunday to help us celebrate the kick-off of our 75th Anniversary year, commented on some of the graces that have flowed from this parish community, in particular our school community, the two international sister parishes we support, our partnership with two sister schools in Ghana and Northeast Minneapolis, and our Senior Connect phone outreach, which made over 7,000 calls to seniors. As he pointed out so well, the past 75 years are merely a beginning, “a down payment on the mission that God still has for us.”

It is true, we not only have much to celebrate from the past 75 years, but also have so much to look forward to as we continue to embrace our parish mission of Making Jesus Christ known and loved.

Celebration Mass with Bishop Cozzens