Read: Rest in Peace | A Prayerful Interment for Uncollected Ashes | All Souls’ Day 2021 November 03, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Here are some poignant images of Bishop Boyea of Lansing providing a fitting and prayerful interment for the ashes from the Sparrow Medical Examiner’s Office that have gone unwanted and uncollected over the
Wisdom 3:1-9Psalms 27:1, 4, 7-9, 13-14Romans 5:5-11John 11:17-27 Wisdom 3:1-91But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. 2In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, 3and their going from us to be
Watch: Hosea 10 Explained | Bianca Murray | Bishop’s Year of the Bible | November 1, 2021 November 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today the Bishop’s Year of the Bible reaches Hosea 10. The sins that have been recounted over the past couple of chapters of Hosea are now reviewed, especially those that focus on
Read: Feast of All Souls | November 2, 2021 November 02, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today parishes across the Diocese of Lansing dedicate their prayers in a particular way for all the holy souls in Purgatory, still being purified of the remains of sin. “We feel found by charity to offer those brothers and sisters
Read: Feast of All Saints | November 1, 2021 November 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Feast of All Saints. Happy feast day! Today’s feast commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. It precedes All Souls’ Day on November 2, which specifically commemorates the departed faithful who have not
Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Psalms 24:1-61 John 3:1-3Matthew 5:1-12 Revelation 7:2-4, 9-142Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, 3saying, “Do not harm the earth
Deuteronomy 6:2-6Psalms 18:2-4, 47, 51Hebrews 7:23-28Mark 12:28-34 Deuteronomy 6:2-62 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel,
Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29Psalms 94:12-13, 14-15, 17-18Luke 14:1, 7-11 Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-291 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what
Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Corey Bilodeau October 29, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Watch as Diocese of Lansing seminarian, Corey Bilodeau, charts his path towards the Sacred Priesthood. Deo volente. 29-year-old Corey began to hear the call of God just a month before he graduated college. It was then he first encountered
Romans 9:1-5Psalms 147:12-15, 19-20Luke 14:1-6 Romans 9:1-51 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for