Due to special programming for the Indianapolis 500, the Sunday Mass on TV will not air on WDAY-Channel 6 and WDAZ-Channel 8 on Sunday, May 27, only. With this exception, the 30-minute TV Mass can be seen every Sunday on WDAY and WDAZ at 10:30 a.m. The TV Mass also airs nationwide at 5:30 a.m. on Sundays on ABC Family and can be viewed on the Internet at www.thesundaymass.org. For the western parishes in the Fargo Diocese, the TV Mass can also be seen on Sundays on these stations: Bismarck, 10 a.m., KNDX-Channel 26 and Minot, 10 a.m., KXND-Channel 24. Donate to the TV Mass Apostolate by mailing a check, payable to “Diocese of Fargo,” to TV Mass, Diocese of Fargo, 5201 Bishops Blvd., Suite A, Fargo, ND 58104-7605.

Raffle tickets are being sold to help support the planning and preparation for the Tekakwitha Conference set for July 2014 in Fargo. This conference will mark the 75th anniversary of the annual gathering that was started by the Diocese of Fargo in 1939. The cost is $2 per ticket and tickets are available from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Reynolds, where Father John Cavanaugh is the pastor. He also serves St. Jude’s in Thompson. Call (701) 847-3096. Or contact Kathy Loney at the diocesan Pastoral Center, 5201 Bishops Blvd., Suite A, Fargo, ND 58104-7605, (701) 356-7902 or kathy.loney@fargodiocese.org. The conference celebrates Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, known as “the Lily of the Mohawks.” Blessed Kateri was born to a Christian Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in 1656 along the Hudson River in what is today upstate New York. She was baptized by a Jesuit missionary in 1676 when she was 20. A year later she fled to Canada and died there in 1680. Her sainthood cause was opened in 1932, and she was declared venerable in 1943. In June 1980, she became the first Native American to be beatified. She will be canonized a saint in October.