Pastor: Fr. Emile April

Office Staff: Angie Punk & Linda Reineke

Caretaker: Joseph Wourms

Pastoral Team

	Fr. Emile April, born in a French-Canadian family in rural Saskatchewan, has been a diocesan priest for over 40 years. Some 26 years of his priestly life was spent as a missionary in Brazil. Since his return from Brazil he has served in various parishes in the Saskatoon Diocese and since the summer of 2006 calls Humboldt his home. Fr. Emile provides guidance and support to the pastoral team, is responsible for all sacramental ministry and oversees the administration of the parish. Email: emileapril@sasktel.net
	Fr. Emmanuel Azike, OP, joined our Pastoral Team in January 2010. He is a member of the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) and comes to us from Lagos, Nigeria. Fr. Emmanuel was ordained to the priesthood in 2002.
	Sr. Loretta Konlup, OSU: Sacramental Preparation (children & RCIA) Funerals Sacristy Ministry Music Ministry Coordinator Ministry to the Poor Communion to shut-ins
	Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers Adult Faith Development Oblate Parish Mission  Formation in Liturgical Ministries and Leadership Sacramental Preparation Pastoral Outreach Email: staug.marlou@sasktel.net

History

In the early 1900’s this geographical location in the heartland of Saskatchewan attracted many settlers from German Catholic descent. In order to meet the pastoral needs of this growing immigrant population, the Benedictine monks of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, dispatched several of their members to establish a new monastery near Muenster, SK, which came to be called St. Peter’s Abbey (after the colony with the same name) – see www.stpetersabbey.ca. Muenster is located at 10 km west of Humboldt. The monks of St. Peter’s Abbey established the parishes in this area and served as their parish priests. The ecclesial juridical organization made this area its own diocese – called the Abbacy of Muenster – in which the Abbot of the monastery served as its local bishop. The Abbacy ceased to exist in the mid-1990’s when it was absorbed into the Diocese of Saskatoon.

When the parish in Humboldt was founded, the monks chose the name of a good Benedictine saint as its patron, namely St. Augustine of Canterbury who had served as missionary to the British Isles in the fourth century. Monks from St. Peter’s Abbey continued to serve as parish priests at St. Augustine’s until the mid 1990’s at which time priests from the Saskatoon Diocese took responsibility for the administration and pastoral staffing of the parish.

Prayer to St. Augustine of Caterbury