Romans 6:19-23Psalms 1:1-4, 6Luke 12:49-53 Romans 6:19-2319 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification. 20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard
Read: Never Doubt God’s Faithfulness w/ 107-year-old Sister Agnette Bengal October 21, 2021 Diocese of Lansing It’s now nine decades since 107-year-old Sister Agnette Bengal departed her hometown of Westphalia to give her life to Jesus Christ and His Holy Church as a Sister of Christian Charity. In the latest edition of Liguorian Magazine, Sister
Romans 6:12-18Psalms 124:1-8Luke 12:39-48 Romans 6:12-1812 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments
Weekly Realign Resources for Mission Update, October 20, 2021 October 20, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Welcome to this week’s Realign Resources for Mission Weekly Update. Happy Feast of Saint Paul of the Cross! As ever, this week we are exploring another of the principles, developed through prayer and study, which underpin the vision
Read: Bishop Boyea launches Synod 2023 process in Diocese of Lansing October 18, 2021 Diocese of Lansing During Sunday Mass at Saint Mary Cathedral on October 17, 2021, Bishop Earl Boyea formally launched the Diocese of Lansing’s participation in the preparatory process towards the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome which will discuss the issue
Watch: The Way of Beauty | A Guided Tour of Saint Mary in Williamston October 18, 2021 Diocese of Lansing “Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence … it stirs that hidden nostalgia for God,” Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to Artists, Easter Sunday 1999. You are invited in
Romans 5:12, 15, 17-19, 20-21Psalms 40:7-10, 17Luke 12:35-38 Romans 5:12, 15, 17-19, 20-2112 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned — 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one
Read: “Why I love the North American Martyrs” by Bishop Earl Boyea October 19, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Feast of Saints John de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues and Companions. Happy feast day! These eight saintly missionaries were martyred between 1642 and 1649. They died for their faithfulness to Christ and his Holy
Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Deacon Tyler Arens October 18, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Watch as Diocese of Lansing seminarian, Deacon Tyler Arens, explains his path towards the sacred priesthood. Deo volente. 35-year-old Deacon Tyler hails from the parish of Saint Mary in Westphalia and is a graduate of the University of
2 Timothy 4:10-17Psalms 145:10-13, 17-18Luke 10:1-9 2 Timothy 4:10-1710 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessaloni’ca; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very useful in serving me. 12 Tych’icus