Watch: Week 20 | Be My Witnesses w/ Bishop Boyea | Mission: Manifest the Christian Life May 16, 2025 Diocese of Lansing May 16, 2025 Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter My sisters and brothers in the Lord, Welcome to week twenty of BMW, Be My Witnesses. After a few weeks of prayer,
Acts 13:13-25Psalms 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27John 13:16-20 Acts 13:13-25(13) And when Paul and those who were with him had sailed from Paphos, they arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. Then John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem (14) Yet truly, they, traveling on from Perga, arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. And upon entering the synagogue
Read: “Why I’m blessed to steward God’s creation,” by farmer, Steve Tennes May 15, 2025 Diocese of Lansing It is a blessing to be able to farm, writes Steve Tennes, an organic apple farmer and owner of Country Mill Farms, Charlotte, upon the Feast of Saint Isidore the Farmer, May 15. Steve continues: We recognize
Watch: Interview | The Diocese of Lansing native baptized by Pope Leo XIV May 15, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Here’s a great interview, below, with the young Diocese of Lansing native who was baptized by Pope Leo XIV. 26-year-old Alaina Skellett was christened by Father Robert Prevost OSA, now Bishop of Rome, back in the
Acts 1:15-17, 20-26Psalms 113:1-8John 15:9-17 Acts 1:15-17, 20-26(15) In those days, Peter, rising up in the midst of the brothers, said (now the crowd of men altogether was about one hundred and twenty) (16) “Noble brothers, the Scripture must be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit predicted by the mouth of David about Judas, who was
Read: “Why I chose to be called Matthias” by Father Mathias Thelen, Saint Patrick, Brighton May 14, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle who was chosen to replace the treacherous Judas Iscariot as one of the Twelve. Happy feast day! “This feast day means a lot to me,”
Read: Our path to the diaconate | Meet the 12 men preparing for ordination May 14, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Of your charity, please pray for these 12 men who will be ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Earl Boyea at Saint Thomas Aquinas parish in East Lansing this Saturday, May 17. Eight are permanent
Acts 11:19-26Psalms 87:1-7John 10:22-30 Acts 11:19-26(19) And some of them, having been dispersed by the persecution that had occurred under Stephen, traveled around, even to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the Word to no one, except to Jews only (20) But some of these men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they had entered into
Watch: The power of Confirmation | A short film May 13, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Over the course of this year, Bishop Earl Boyea will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on 879 young people drawn from 56 parishes from across the Diocese of Lansing. But what is the Sacrament of Confirmation? We asked Natalie Kolano,
Watch: The power of the Eucharist at Powers | A short film May 13, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Watch as hundreds of students at Powers Catholic High in Flint prayerfully participate in a Eucharistic Procession, May 9, only pausing to adore Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament at five purpose-built altars situated across the school