For the third year in a row, a cold-weather endeavor built on engineering know-how, perseverance and faith will house a special ice mass on the Michigan Technological University campus.

A shovelful of snow hits Father Ben Hasse, pastor at St. Albert the Great University Parish in Houghton, squarely in the chest.

“It’s not every day you get to throw snow at a priest,” jokes one of about 20 students filling the three-by-four-by-six-foot wood forms used to construct the walls of what will be a cathedral fashioned from snow and ice. Read more.