Watch: Kindness | A Fruit of the Holy Spirit | Pentecost Novena w/ Bishop Boyea May 18, 2021 Diocese of Lansing This Sunday marks the great Solemnity of Pentecost. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and other followers of Jesus Christ, while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of
Watch: Patience | A Fruit of the Holy Spirit | Pentecost Novena w/ Bishop Boyea May 17, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today, May 17, is Day Four of our Pentecost Novena led by Bishop Earl Boyea with today’s meditation dwelling upon another of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: Patience. Here is what Bishop Boyea
Acts 2:44-47Psalms 131:1-3Luke 12:22-31 Acts 2:44-4744 And all who believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with
Watch: Acts 19 Explained | Father Tim MacDonald | Bishop’s Year of the Bible | May 17 May 17, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Chapter 19 of the Acts of the Apostles sees Saint Paul arrive in the busy trading port of Ephesus which was also the location of one of the Seven Wonders of the
Acts 16:11-15Psalms 149:1-6, 9John 15:26–16:4 Acts 16:11-1511 Setting sail therefore from Tro’as, we made a direct voyage to Sam’othrace, and the following day to Ne-ap’olis, 12 and from there to Philip’pi, which is the leading city of the district of Macedo’nia, and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days; 13 and on
Watch: Peace | A Fruit of the Holy Spirit | Pentecost Novena w/ Bishop Boyea May 15, 2021 Diocese of Lansing In his letter to the Church in Galatia, Saint Paul identifies nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith in action, gentleness, and inner strength (Galatians 5:22-23). In the
Acts 1:1-11Psalms 47:2-3, 6-9Ephesians 1:17-23Mark 16:15-20 Acts 1:1-111 In the first book, O The-oph’ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 To them he
Watch: Love | The Fruits of the Holy Spirit | A Pentecost Novena w/ Bishop Boyea May 14, 2021 Diocese of Lansing As we prepare ourselves for the great Solemnity of Pentecost, May 23, Bishop Boyea invites each of us to meditate over nine days upon the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit that, we
Read: Prayers on the Verge of Ordination May 13, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Of your charity, please pray for these five men who will be ordained to the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Lansing on Saturday, May 15, by Bishop Earl Boyea. “This is a very special moment,” Deacon Randy Desrochers, Director of Diaconal
Read: Prayers on the Eve of Ordination: Tyler Arns and Peter Ludwig May 14, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Of your charity, please pray for these two fine young men who will be ordained to the diaconate tomorrow morning, May 15, as they make their way, Deo volente, towards ordination to the sacred priesthood next year.