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Mar

Read: The Saint Katharine Drexel Scholarship

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

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Mar

Mass Readings for March 2, 2022

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,

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Mar

Read: Ash Wednesday 2022 | Why We Fast by Jeremy Priest

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

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Mar

Mass Readings for March 1, 2022

1 Peter 1:10-16Psalms 98:1-4Mark 10:28-31 1 Peter 1:10-1610 The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation; 11 they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. 12 It was

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Mar

Watch: The Diocese of Lansing's "Made for Mission" Conference | February 24, 2022

Watch: The Diocese of Lansing’s “Made for Mission” Conference | February 24, 2022 March 01, 2022 Diocese of Lansing Here are some of the sights and sounds of the Diocese of Lansing’s recent Made for Mission Conference which brought together over 800 clergy, religious, parish staff, teachers and other lay faithful from across the diocese

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Feb

Mass Readings for February 28, 2022

1 Peter 1:3-9Psalms 111:1-2, 5-6, 9-10Mark 10:17-27 1 Peter 1:3-93 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept

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Feb

Mass Readings for February 27, 2022

Sirach 27:4-7Psalms 92:2-3, 13-161 Corinthians 15:54-58Luke 6:39-45 Sirach 27:4-74 When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so a man’s filth remains in his thoughts. 5 The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a man is in his reasoning. 6 The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of

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Feb

Mass Readings for February 26, 2022

James 5:13-20Psalms 141:1-3, 8Mark 10:13-16 James 5:13-2013 Is any one among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15

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Feb

Mass Readings for February 25, 2022

James 5:9-12Psalms 103:1-4, 8-12Mark 10:1-12 James 5:9-129 Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the doors. 10 As an example of suffering and patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, we call those happy who