Greetings in Christ, all! A warm welcome to Fr. Dave Howell who has (hopefully!) moved into St. Mark in Goodrich this week. Despite looking about 10 years younger than me, Fr. Dave has achieved the mythical “Senior Priest Status” in our diocese and I invited him to move into the rectory at St. Mark’s, where […]
Greetings in Christ! This handout is to walk us through an update on our massive Church Renovation Project. We’ll start with a review. In 2017, the Diocese of Lansing convened the Witness to Hope campaign in order to raise some much needed funds for the great work of their ministry. Holy Family and about 11 […]
Greetings in Christ! We’re finishing up quite the run in the Church calendar: Easter is complete, we’ve prayed the Pentecost Feast and celebrated the Trinity and now we are at one of my All-Time Favorites – Corpus Christi: the celebration of the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. As Catholics, we are a […]
Greetings in Christ all! We’ve got quite the lineup for our liturgies; it always goes this way right after Easter. Last week was Pentecost, where we celebrate the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, this week is Trinity which is the Central Mystery of our Faith and the week after is Corpus Christi: the Feast of […]
Greetings in Christ, all! This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Pentecost: our Church’s birthday! Praise God. This will conclude our Easter Season and, as a result, you should see the procession of the Easter Candle out of the Church after each Mass this weekend. As you see it walk by, thank the Lord […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I’m sorry I missed the bulletin last week. I was quite sick. That week of May 19-25 was a rough one for both of our parish families…we had six funerals, Fr. Peter was away and I was laid up sick. Fr. Bill and Deacon Ron were supermen for us during that […]
Greetings in Christ all! A blessed and holy Easter Season to you and yours. I want to start off with some sad news. I received a call from Bishop Earl that Fr. Bill Wegher is being reassigned to serve as Sacramental Minister to the Catholic Churches in Durand and Gaines. The good news is that […]
Greetings in Christ, all! We continue to get wonderful follow-up questions from the State of the Parish letter as well as our building project. I’d like to use this time to get after some of those. First, I’ve been asked why we are pushing the building project on if money is so tight? It’s a […]
Greetings in Christ! Well, we have had the town hall meetings and revealed the new plans for our church and I am so very blessed by the excitement that seems to be accompanying these plans. I was asked a lot of questions about why I changed the plans and what my priorities were in changing […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m excited to send you all this update on our parish financial status and building project. Since I arrived here last year, I’ve been learning all I can about this vast and amazing enterprise that is our parish community. The good news is easy: collections are trending up, registrations are up and […]