Read: Lenten Ember Days | “What are Ember Days?” by Will Bloomfield March 08, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Tomorrow, March 9, 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
Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18Psalms 19:8-10, 15Matthew 25:31-46 Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-181 And the LORD said to Moses, 2 “Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy. 11 “You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 And you shall
Deuteronomy 26:4-10Psalms 91:1-2, 10-15Romans 10:8-13Luke 4:1-13Deuteronomy 26:4-104 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 5 “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, `A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there,
Isaiah 58:9-14Psalms 86:1-6Luke 5:27-32 Isaiah 58:9-149 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy
Isaiah 58:1-9Psalms 51:3-6, 18-19Matthew 9:14-15 Isaiah 58:1-91 “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not
Deuteronomy 30:15-20Psalms 1:1-4, 6Luke 9:22-25 Deuteronomy 30:15-2015 “See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and
Week 9 | Disciples Together on the Way w/ Bishop Boyea | March 6 to 12 | Repentance | Recite & Memorize a Nightly Act of Contrition March 04, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, It was the morning of D-Day. June 6, 1944. Father Francis Sampson, Chaplain in the
Read: The Saint Katharine Drexel Scholarship March 03, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Feast Day of Saint Katharine Drexel (1858 – 1955), the wealthy Philadelphia heiress who abandoned her family’s fortune to become a saintly pioneer of educational advancement for Native Americans and African Americans. Happy Feast Day! Did you know that he
Joel 2:12-18Psalms 51:3-6, 12-14, 172 Corinthians 5:20–6:2Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Joel 2:12-1812 “Yet even now,” says the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
Read: Ash Wednesday 2022 | Why We Fast by Jeremy Priest March 02, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Today is Ash Wednesday. Today is a public day of fasting and abstinence that we do as the Church. Why do we fast? Here’s a reflection by Jeremy Priest, Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese