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Watch: The Priest whose Great-grandfather put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz

Watch: The Priest whose Great-grandfather put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz March 18, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Father Nate Harburg’s great-grandfather was the popular American song lyricist and librettist, Yip Harburg (1896 – 1981), who co-wrote the 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz along with composer, Harold Arlen. Indeed, it was Yip Harburg

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Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Paul Keenan

Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Paul Keenan March 21, 2022 Diocese of Lansing It was after graduating in German from Hillsdale College three years ago that Diocese of Lansing seminarian Paul Keenan started to feel a calling to the sacred priesthood. “But there was still a lot of fear around the idea

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Mass Readings for March 18, 2022

Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28Psalms 105:16-21Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-283 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his

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Read: Tony's Passion for Putting the Holy Face of Jesus on Billboards

Read: Tony’s Passion for Putting the Holy Face of Jesus on Billboards March 18, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Tony Cherniawski has a very singular Lenten resolution: That all may see the face of Christ and draw closer to his Divine Love. That’s why the Lansing father-of-seven, and grandfather-of-14, is raising funds to pay for billboards

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Mass Readings for March 17, 2022

Jeremiah 17:5-10Psalms 1:1-4, 6Luke 16:19-31 Jeremiah 17:5-105 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of

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Read: Canon Lawyer Heidi joins "the Home Team" at the Diocese of Lansing

Read: Canon Lawyer Heidi joins “the Home Team” at the Diocese of Lansing March 17, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Meet Heidi Gonzales who is the Diocese of Lansing’s new Moderator of the Tribunal Chancery. That means Heidi is the senior canon lawyer in charge of day-to-day operations of the Diocese of Lansing Tribunal, the diocesan

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Read: "Why Saint Patrick is my hero" by Deacon Patrick McDonald

Read: “Why Saint Patrick is my hero” by Deacon Patrick McDonald March 17, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Feast of Saint Patrick, the great 5th century missionary, who converted the people of Ireland to Jesus Christ and His Holy Church. Happy feast day! Deacon Patrick McDonald of Saint Patrick Parish in Brighton now

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Mass Readings for March 16, 2022

Jeremiah 18:18-20Psalms 31:5-6, 14-16Matthew 20:17-28 Jeremiah 18:18-2018 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.” 19