Deuteronomy 30:15-20Psalms 1:1-4,6Luke 9:22-25 Deuteronomy 30:15-20(15) Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. (16) For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh
Read: Ash Wednesday | Preparing the Way for the Lord March 05, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Here are some images from Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary Cathedral in Lansing where hundreds of people attended Holy Mass to receive their ashes and to be challenged to embrace prayer, penance, and almsgiving during the next 40 days
Joel 2:12-18Psalms 51:3-6,12-14,172 Corinthians 5:20-6:2Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 Joel 2:12-18(12) “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” (13) Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in
Read: Be Prepared | “What are you doing for Lent?” by Richard Budd March 04, 2025 Diocese of Lansing The days fly by, especially in the midst of family life, and if you’re like my wife and me, you regularly have the experience on Ash Wednesday thinking, “Oh gosh, Lent is here already?” writes Richard
Sirach 35:1-12Psalms 50:5-8,14,23Mark 10:28-31 Sirach 35:1-12(1) He that keeps the law multiplies offerings; He that takes heed to the commandments sacrifices a peace offering. (2) He that requites a good turn offers fine flour; And he that gives alms sacrifices a thank offering. (3) To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord;
Read: Saint Gabriel’s Guide to Holiness on Campus by Father Corey Bilodeau February 27, 2025 Diocese of Lansing We are called to be saints no matter who you are: man or woman, old or young – if we wish to be in heaven, we must become saints, we must work on growing in holiness, writes
Read: Diocese of Lansing seminarian, Thomas Crowley, takes one step closer to the Priesthood March 03, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Congratulations to Diocese of Lansing seminarian, Thomas Crowley, who was admitted to the Ministry of Acolyte in Rome on Sunday, March 2. The ceremony took place within the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Rome’s
Sirach 17:20-24Psalms 32:1-2,5-7Mark 10:17-27 Sirach 17:20-24(20) Their iniquities are not hid from him; And all their sins are before the Lord. (21) (22) With him the alms of a man is as a signet; And he will keep the bounty of a man as the apple of the eye. (23) Afterwards he will rise up
Sirach 27:4-7Psalms 92:1-2,12-151 Corinthians 15:54-58Luke 6:39-45 Sirach 27:4-7(4) In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains; So the filth of man in his reasoning. (5) The furnace will prove the potter’s vessels; And the trial of a man is in his reasoning. (6) The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is
Sirach 17:1-15Psalms 103:13-18Mark 10:13-16 Sirach 17:1-15(1) The Lord created man of the earth, And turned him back to it again. (2) He gave them days by number, and a set time, And gave them authority over the things that are thereon. (3) He endued them with strength proper to them; And made them according to