Here is a look at 2024's Award Dinner recipients:

Franciscan Retreats is pleased to announce the 2024 Franciscan Int’l Award  (FIA) will be given to Pastors and Pastoral Teams. Although these men and women are so essential in the life of the church, they can be taken for granted. These servants are the backbone of the Church and the frontline where the sacraments are ministered. Receiving this award in the name of all pastors/staffs are the following:

  

Pastors/staffs who will accept this award in the name of all:
Fr. Tom Walker, St Michael’s Catholic Church, Prior Lake
Fr. Bill Murtaugh, Pax Christi Catholic Community, Eden Prairie
Fr. John Bauer, Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Minnetonka
Fr. Terry Rassmussen (retired), St Joseph Catholic Community, New Hope/Plymouth
Fr. Phil Ley, OFM Conv. former pastor, Jesus de las Misericordias in El Salvador

May 9, 2024 at: - NEW VENUE! Pax Christi Catholic Community - 12100 Pioneer Trail, Eden Prairie, MN 55347

6:00 Social Hour
7:00 Dinner and presentations
9:00 Final Blessing

Previous recipients of the Franciscan International Award include: the late Dr. Billy Graham for true Ecumenism (1972); the late Dr. Mildred Jefferson, M.D. – as a leader in the Pro-Life Movement (1978); Sister Helen Prejean – for being an advocate for those on death row, their victims, their families, and the families of their victims (2003); Fran Heitzman, the founder of Bridging, for helping families to furnish homes with hope (2014) and last year, One World Surgery.

For 64 years the Franciscan International Award Dinner has been an opportunity for retreatants and friends of Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center in Prior Lake MN to gather together and support the ministry of the retreat house as well as honoring a person or an organization who embodies the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.

Featuring again this year - Raffle Baskets, for which we are accepting monetary donations.

Dinner ticket options
$75.00 –  Individual ticket
$150.00 –  two person ticket (2 People)
$250.00 –  Patron level (2 People, includes an extra donation to the retreat center. Your name will be mentioned in the evening's program) $600.00 –  Benefactor level (2 People, includes an extra donation to the retreat center plus sponsors a friar, priest, or religious community guest to attend the FIA dinner. Your name will be mentioned in the evening's program)
$600.00 –  Table Sponsor (8 people - please send us your guest's names by May 4th)