These Last Days News - February 3, 2026
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Ice Chapels Host Winter Masses On Midwest College Campuses...

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CatholicVote.org reported on February 2, 2026:

By Mary Rose

In the depth of a Midwest winter, college students are once again shaping snow and ice into a sacred space, building temporary chapels where the Eucharist will be celebrated amid freezing temperatures and falling snow.

At Michigan Technological University, students and community members have constructed the Our Lady of the Snows Ice Chapel for the school’s annual Winter Carnival, continuing a tradition that draws hundreds of worshipers each winter.

According to a report from The Mining Journal, the hand-built chapel stands behind St. Albert the Great University Parish and will host three Roman Catholic Masses during the festival, which runs Feb. 4–7. The Masses are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Feb. 6 and 10 a.m. Feb. 7. The two Friday evening liturgies will be livestreamed.

The chapel is built over several weeks from packed snow and ice using wooden forms and hand tools. Students carve arched aisles, fashion stained-ice panels, and construct devotional features, including a Marian grotto. The altar itself is a slab of ice hauled by hand from a nearby bay on Lake Superior. 

​​At the University of Notre Dame, students have also built a small ice chapel on campus and plan to celebrate Mass there at 10 p.m. Feb. 2, according to social media posts shared in recent days by Catholic students and alumni of the Indiana institution. 

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The student-led effort has not been announced through official university channels, and Notre Dame has not indicated that the ice chapel is an established campus tradition. Local media reports from WISHTV described winter construction projects by students following heavy snowfall, including a large snow igloo that drew attention on campus, with friends discussing plans to adapt the structure for worship.

Unlike the large Our Lady of the Snows Ice Chapel at Michigan Technological University — which is rebuilt annually and accommodates hundreds during Winter Carnival — the Notre Dame structure appears to be a one-time, informal expression of student faith amid heavy snowfall.

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