• Anointing Non-Emergencies Schedule by calling the parish office or emailing [email protected] or [email protected]  (e.g. prior to surgery/hospitalization or for general health concerns). 

• At a hospital or care center you may ask a chaplain to call a priest. The chaplains have the priests' on-call phone number. 

• In an emergency (death is imminent): Emergency Only phone 605-464-1360 
  

Attendance of a class is required at least one month prior to the proposed date. 

This is best done PRIOR to child’s birth. 

A baptism may not be scheduled until the class & all forms are complete. 

Pre-Registration Form

• Baptism Date will be scheduled after you have attended a class & all forms are complete and signed. (You must schedule this with the parish secretary in most cases).
  • Baptisms may be scheduled on the 2nd & 4th (full) weekends monthly (Sat. or Sun.)
  • After the last Mass of the day unless the priests' schedules conflict.
• Baptism Location: Typically baptisms are held in the parish where the parents are registered. Special requests are considered but not guaranteed. 
• Baptism Sponsors: 1 Catholic Sponsor/Godparent is required. Other Christian witnesses may also be chosen. Sponsors/Godparents Form Required. 
• Click Here for Godparent Form
• This must be signed by the sponsor's Catholic pastor/parish priest.

• The completed & signed form must be turned in to the parish office a minimum, 10 days prior to the baptism.
• Sponsors from our Pastorate must make an appt to meet with one of our priests to have this form signed.

Baptism Class 

• Outside of Yankton: Parishioners may make a private appt with 
  Fr. Bob Lacey (St Boniface, St. George, St. John) 
  Fr. Darin Schmidt (St. Leo, St. Wenceslaus or St. Vincent) 
  or attend the class in Yankton

• Yankton - Baptism class: 4th Thursday of monthly at St. Ben  (conference room is in the hallway past the restrooms)
  
  

• Please pre-register for the class (you may email [email protected], mail, or drop it off)

Please contact Fr. Darin Schmidt.

• The couple (not the parents of the couple) must contact him at least 6 months in advance of the intended marriage date.

• A wedding date at the church will not be scheduled until after an initial meeting with a priest and cannot be reserved by staff.
  

Contact Parish Office. You will be redirected to our Religious Ed Director.

Contact Parish Office. You will be redirected to our Religious Ed Director.

I was asked to be a Sponsor for Confirmation:

• This must be signed by the sponsor's Catholic pastor/parish priest.
• The completed & signed form must be turned in to the parish office a minimum, 10 days prior to the Confirmation.
• Sponsors from our Pastorate must make an appt to meet with one of our priests to have this form signed.