Greetings in Christ, all! This weekend, we are blessed beyond measure to celebrate with many of our young ones as they receive their First Communion. Please rejoice with them as they receive the Gift of God that you and I may accidentally become too accustomed to. Pray that they and their parents experience the joy […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I feel so blessed at our worship…I look out and see what appears to be many of you inviting people to Church. We see more new faces all the time and I’m so blessed. The more we understand how radically blessed we are to pray this way, the more we will […]
Greetings in Christ! The past two weekends I have made announcements about the Garage Sale. We are restarting this event that began with our beloved Senior group and continues to be a wonderful opportunity for us to work together for our parish and community. I am asking each of you to please help our efforts […]
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion On this day, the Church celebrates Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem to accomplish his paschal mystery. Following the instructions of the Church and the tradition of our Faith, we will celebrate a procession at each of our Palm Sunday Masses. We will gather just outside the church at the Saginaw […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I don’t want to freak you out, but next Sunday is Palm Sunday…can you believe it? As I probably tell you too often, do not give up on your Lent. If you find you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough or you find you forgot completely, there is still a lot of time. Start […]
Greetings in Christ, all; a blessed and holy Lenten Season to you! I wanted to share a couple personal notes with you this week. The first has to do with my new position as Dean. I’ve received some calls and offers to help and I want to say straight off that I’m so grateful…thank you! At […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I wanted to be sure to remind you all that I offer Catechetical Sessions every week on the internet. On Wednesdays, I do a topic, on Thursdays, I interview a guest, and on Fridays, I answer questions. You can enjoy these on podcasts and/or YouTube by searching for “Joe In Black Ministries” […]
Greetings in Christ, all! I pray God blesses everyone who reads this with a firm and joyful commitment to live our Lenten Season well. I’d like to offer some thoughts/suggestions for receiving communion at our Church. We’ve had more drops than usual lately and I thought a reminder might help us tighten up our practices. Please do not […]
Greetings in Christ! As we kick off the Lenten season I want to thank all of you who are joining us in The Activated Disciple 40-Day Challenge. We originally ordered 500 journals and all 500 have been distributed. As I’m typing this we are checking into ordering more for those of you still looking to […]
Greetings in Christ! I can’t believe I’m typing this, but this Wednesday is Ash Wednesday…holy cow, time flies! It is my fervent hope that you and I strive to make this our best Lent ever: sacrificing our time, our resources and disciplining our bodies so that we can allow Jesus to remake us into a […]