Greetings in Christ! The priest’s convocation went really well. I was only able to stay a day and a half, as we had a couple deaths, but the days I was there were extraordinary. We had two presenters and both were outstanding. One of them really pounded the idea of Trusting God as a key to resisting temptation: […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m writing this article way ahead of time…even before I leave for the convocation. That means you are reading now what I wrote a couple weeks ago, so I can’t tell you for sure that I enjoyed the convocation, but odds are pretty good that Fr. Le and I both enjoyed it very much. […]
Greetings in Christ, all! A reminder that from Monday until Thursday night, Fr. Le and I will be joining the priests of the diocese at the Convocation. Please pray for us and please pray for all priests in the Diocese of Lansing, as well as our Bishop. I think many of you know that we have […]
Greetings in Christ! Please forgive me for missing last week’s article; I’m struggling a bit to keep up…all is well in the Land of Holy Family. I wanted to let you know that this year the Priest Convocation is September 25-28. As a reminder, every year all the priests in the Diocese get together and […]
Greetings in Christ! A blessed, restful and joy-filled Labor Day weekend to you all! I have a bunch of information for you, so let’s go one step at a time. First of all, it is a recurring theme here that folks get emails or texts from people saying they are me. It usually presents as a […]
Greetings in Christ! I am afraid I have some rather sad news. I am typing this article on Wednesday, August 23rd. I need to tell you that two people visited our Church in the dead of the night and walked all through our buildings and property, committing acts of vandalism and desecration. They do not appear to […]
Greetings in Christ! I want to start off with something important, but for it to make sense, I need to give you some background. By Church law, priests can only offer sacraments if they have what the Church calls “Faculties” from the Bishop. For example, if I want to pray my niece or nephew’s wedding […]
Greetings in Christ! I have a lot of updates for you all and it’s my intent to use the bulletin to catch you up on these things. Please share this information with folks that maybe couldn’t get to Mass if you would. The first thing is I’d like to talk about our property a bit, as […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m writing to you this week with one reminder and three big updates. First, next weekend I will be away for a scheduled retreat and we have not been able to schedule priests to cover all our Masses. What does this mean? Unfortunately, we will again need to have one of our scheduled […]
Greetings in Christ, all! Boy, I jumped right back into it here…lots of funerals, lots of meetings, all of it. I am very grateful for the break and realize I need to be more faithful to vacations/times away. I’m working on it. There are a lot of things going on here in our parish and I’m very […]