VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Saint Catherine’s parish of Valley City is having their Lenten mission March 7-10 starting at 6:30 pm each evening. The theme is “Living the Eucharistic Life”. The guest speaker is Father Jim Kubicki.

Fr. Jim Kubicki was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He entered the Jesuits in 1971 and was ordained in 1983. From 1989 to 1995 he worked at the Sioux Spiritual Center, a retreat house for Native people and the center for the Rapid City, South Dakota Dioceses’s Deacon and Lay Ministry Formation program. From 2000-2003 he was the Assistant Director of Demontreville, a Jesuit retreat house in Minnesota.

In 2003 he became the national director of the Apostleship of Prayer, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network and traveled around the country giving talks, parish missions, and retreats. He is a regular contributor to the national Catholic media network, Relevant Radio, and has appeared on Real Presence Radio. His book “A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus” was published by Ave Maria Press in 2012 and was awarded third place in the category of “Best Prayer and Spirituality Book of the Year” by the Association of Catholic Book Publishers. His second book, “A Year of Daily Offerings “ was published in October 2016.

In 2017 Fr. Kubicki became the Director of St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation in the western South Dakota.