Deuteronomy 26:16-19Psalms 119:1-2,4-5,7-8Matthew 5:43-48 Deuteronomy 26:16-19(16) Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. (17) You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
Watch: Week 11 | Be My Witnesses w/ Bishop Boyea | Know Him in the Breaking of the Bread (Luke 24:35) March 14, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Friday, March 14, 2025 Feast of Saint Matilda “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.” Matthew 14:27 Dear Friend, Welcome to week eleven of
Ezekiel 18:21-28Psalms 130:1-8Matthew 5:20-26 Ezekiel 18:21-28(21) “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die. (22) None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In
Read: How your DSA generosity brings the love of Christ to those most in need March 13, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Aimee Godfrey, Director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Lansing, pictured above, sees God’s providential hand in bringing her to direct the five charities that provide critical services for people in need, writes
Esther 8:1,3-5,12-14Psalms 138:1-3,7-8Matthew 7:7-12 Esther 8:1,3-5,12-14(1) Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was imminent, fled to the Lord. (3) And she begged the Lord God of Israel, saying, “My Lord, who alone is our King, help me, a solitary woman, for there is no other helper but you. (4) My peril is close at
Jonah 3:1-10Psalms 51:3-4,12-13,18-19Luke 11:29-32 Jonah 3:1-10(1) Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, (2) “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.” (3) So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey
Watch: Happy Centenary, Saint Mary Student Parish, Ann Arbor March 07, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Here’s a lovely short film by Ypsilanti-based Catholic film maker, Miguel Zuniga, capturing some of the sights and sounds of the Saint Mary Student Parish’s centenary celebrations in Ann Arbor on February 22, 2025. That date marked the 100th anniversary
Read: “Father Fitzgibbons and the miracle that made a Scottish saint” by David Kerr March 10, 2025 Diocese of Lansing The happy couple pictured below are my mother and father upon their wedding day in Scotland back in 1967, writes David Kerr, Director of Communications for the Diocese of Lansing. Meanwhile, the priest to their
Read: Lenten Ember Days | March 12, 14 & 15, 2025 March 11, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 12, begins the Lenten Ember Days. What are Ember Days? Here’s a great explainer by Will Bloomfield, General Counsel of the Diocese of Lansing. Writes Will: Ember Days are traditionally days of fasting and partial
Isaiah 55:10-11Psalms 34:4-7,16-19Matthew 6:7-15 Isaiah 55:10-11(10) For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; (11) so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it