About Our Risen Savior - Holy Family Parish · Eldorado, Wisconsin
Our Risen Savior is one of six worship sites within Holy Family Catholic Community, a large city-wide Roman Catholic parish of roughly 5,700 families in the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin area. Located in the Town of Eldorado/Woodhull, west of Fond du Lac, the church sits on N6499 County Road Y at the corner of County Road Y and Forest Avenue. It belongs to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and shares its priests, programs, and pastoral staff with the other five sites of Holy Family Catholic Community. Parishioners gather for Sunday Mass at 10:00 am in English and have access to a full range of formation, music, and outreach ministries through the wider parish.
- Established
- 2000
- Patron
- Our Risen Savior (the Resurrected Christ)
- Rector
- Very Rev. Ryan J. Pruess
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Why belong here
Our Risen Savior is a warm, rural-wedge worship site of one of the largest parish communities in the Fond du Lac area, so visitors get the best of both worlds: the small-country-church feel of a Sunday morning in Eldorado along with full staff, choirs, faith-formation programs, and outreach of a 5,700-family parish. The church offers Sunday Mass, weekly Reconciliation on Sunday mornings, Eucharistic Adoration and Confession every Wednesday evening, a dedicated parish choir, Children's Liturgy of the Word on the first Sunday of the month, and connection to broader parish ministries like St. Vincent de Paul, RCIA, and Catholic school partnerships with St. Mary Springs Academy.
Mass times at Our Risen Savior - Holy Family Parish
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Sunday 9:00 - 9:45 am (before 10:00 am Mass at Our Risen Savior)
- Wednesday 6:30 - 7:30 pm (Eucharistic Holy Hour — priests willing to hear confessions)
Adoration times
- Wednesday 6:30 - 7:30 pm (Eucharistic Adoration, followed by Mass at 7:30 pm)
About Our Risen Savior - Holy Family Parish
Our Risen Savior is the western-most of the six worship sites of Holy Family Catholic Community, a city-wide Roman Catholic parish serving the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin area. The parish belongs to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and shares a pastor, parochial vicars, deacons, and a full slate of formation and outreach ministries with the other sites. Holy Family Catholic Community describes itself as a vibrant, multi-cultural parish of roughly 5,700 families and one of the northernmost parishes in the archdiocese.
- Site type: Worship site within Holy Family Catholic Community
- Diocese: Archdiocese of Milwaukee
- Combined parish size: ~5,700 families across 6 worship sites
- Pastoral model: Pastor + associate pastors + deacons
History
Our Risen Savior Parish was created by merging the two rural parishes that had long served the Eldorado and Woodhull countryside: St. John Parish, Woodhull, and St. Mary Parish, Eldorado. The merger was one of 31 such consolidations across the Archdiocese of Milwaukee beginning in 1998. In July 2000, six Fond du Lac-area parishes — Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, St. Louis, St. Mary, St. Patrick, and St. Peter — voted to form Holy Family Catholic Community, with Our Risen Savior becoming one of its sites.
- Formed by merger of St. John Parish, Woodhull, and St. Mary Parish, Eldorado
- Joined Holy Family Catholic Community on July 1, 2000
- New Holy Family church (271 Fourth Street Way) built by Plunkett Raysich Architects and dedicated November 2007
- Community celebrated its 25th anniversary with a three-day festival in 2025
Christian Formation and Sacraments
Children's Liturgy of the Word is offered at the 10:00 am Mass on the first Sunday of the month during the Fall-through-Easter season. First Reconciliation is typically celebrated in 2nd grade during the parish's Advent penitential services, and First Communion preparation follows, home-based with large-group meetings. Older sacramental records for Our Risen Savior (and the older Presentation and former St. Mary, Eldorado / St. John, Woodhull sites) are maintained by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Archives.
- Children's Liturgy of the Word — first Sunday of month, 10:00 am Mass
- First Reconciliation — 2nd grade, Advent
- First Communion — following First Reconciliation prep
- RCIA and adult sacraments available through the Christian Formation Office
- Personal Safety / Safeguarding lessons required for all K4–12 students
Music and Liturgical Ministries
Our Risen Savior has its own choir, one of five parish choirs serving the community. The parish also recruits altar servers, lectors, and other liturgical ministers across its six sites.
- Our Risen Savior Choir
- Holy Family / Sacred Heart Choir
- St. Peter Choir
- Children's Choir
- Festival Choir
- Opportunities to serve as altar server, lector, or in other liturgical roles
Parish Staff and Clergy
Holy Family Catholic Community is led by Very Rev. Ryan J. Pruess as pastor, supported by several parochial vicars and three deacons. Priests are advised by a Pastoral Council and a Finance Council; day-to-day ministry is organized through four Commissions: Worship, Formation, Human and Pastoral Concerns, and Stewardship.
- Pastor — Fr. Ryan Pruess (ext. 601)
- Parochial Vicars — Fr. Kevin Durand (ext. 602), Fr. Matthew Kirk (ext. 603), Fr. Patrick Behling (ext. 604), Fr. Fernando Torres (ext. 605)
- Deacons — Dale R. Paczkowski, Ricardo Muñoz, Marty Ryan
- Pastoral Council and Finance Council
Outreach and Community Life
Through the wider Holy Family Catholic Community, Our Risen Savior parishioners participate in an active ministry of service: Catholic Masses and faith-formation services at Taycheedah Correctional Institution, three new meal programs added in the past several years, an outreach center that began as a daily warming shelter and now provides housing for newly arrived immigrants, and collaboration with St. Vincent de Paul and the Sisters of St. Agnes, Marian University, and St. Mary Springs Academy.
- Prison ministry at Taycheedah Correctional Institution
- Outreach center (warming shelter / newly arrived immigrant housing)
- Meal programs
- St. Vincent de Paul
- Collaboration with Sisters of St. Agnes and Marian University
- Active member of the Fond du Lac Area Ministerial Association
Visiting Our Risen Savior
Our Risen Savior Church is at N6499 County Road Y, Eldorado, WI 54932, on the corner of County Road Y and Forest Avenue in the Town of Eldorado/Woodhull. The shared parish office (for all administrative, sacramental, and staff questions) is at 271 Fourth Street Way, Fond du Lac, WI 54937-7508 (corner of County Road K and Fourth Street), open Monday–Thursday 7:30 am–4:15 pm and Friday 7:30 am–12:00 pm.
- Worship site address: N6499 County Road Y, Eldorado, WI 54932
- Parish office address: 271 Fourth Street Way, Fond du Lac, WI 54937-7508
- Phone: (920) 921-0580
- Email: [email protected]
- Office hours: Mon–Thu 7:30 am–4:15 pm; Fri 7:30 am–12:00 pm