Baccalaureate worship was wonderful (VIDEO)

My count may be off by 1 or 2 students, but the turnout was tremendous tonight for the B-B-E Class of 2025 senior Baccalaureate worship service. The annual Ecumenical event was held at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Belgrade. Attending clergy were Father Mark Botzet and Pastor Lisa Meshke.

Here's the video of the full worship service tonight:


By my count, 37 of the graduates attended worship.

The video begins as the worship started with the St. Francis de Sales church choir performing in the balcony. Bonita Radermacher is playing the guitar and leading the singers.

At about the 13:30 mark in the video, Father Mark reads the Holy Gospel, and his Homily follows that.

Baccalaureate service was great (VIDEO)

The B-B-E Class of 2024 had a terrific Baccalaureate worship service tonight in Brooten. Of the class of 39 graduates, 26 were in attendance tonight with numerous siblings, parents, stepparents and grandparents. This is always a marvelous event to take in. I am always immensely proud of our community - and more specifically our faith community - on Baccalaureate night.

Video is uploading, and I plan to get it posted right away online for others to watch.

Here's the worship service video from tonight:


After worship tonight, I enjoyed visiting with a handful of B-B-E baseball seniors about how the season is going. They were excited to host Paynesville, but that seems unlikely with tomorrow's forecast of additional rain and wind. The Bulldogs won their home tournament on Saturday with a 10-1 win against Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg and then a 5-4 win over St. Cloud Cathedral. They are now 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the Central Minnesota Conference.

Monday updates to follow here...
11:30 a.m...about an hour ago, the home JV golf meet at Prairie View in Brooten was postponed one full week to Monday, May 6. As it stands, across the past 80 hours, the Brooten area has received between 3.5 and 4 inches of rainfall. Much of the ground is waterlogged for the time being.

Today's fastpitch game with Paynesville has been postponed to May 14 in Paynesville. For the baseball team, their game against Paynesville has been moved to tomorrow in Elrosa.

(Video) Baccalaureate service

Here's a clip from the end of the B-B-E Senior Baccalaureate service last night in Belgrade:


The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's live stream of the church service worked without a hitch. I will post the full archive video later today.

**Here's the link to the full video: http://citylinktv.com/archive/bbe-baccalaureate-05-21-17.
Time to get the May 25 issue off to the presses!