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Invitation: Realign Resources for Mission Regional Meetings, August 29, 2021

Invitation: Realign Resources for Mission Regional Meetings, August 29, 2021 August 20, 2021 Diocese of Lansing The Diocese of Lansing’s Realign Resources for Mission committee invites you to join them on the evening of Sunday, August 29, 2021 when they will present to you the proposed drafts of parish groupings within the Diocese of Lansing.

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Mass Readings for August 20, 2021

Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 22Psalms 146:5-10Matthew 22:34-40 Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 221 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 3 But Elim’elech, the husband

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 19, 2021

Judges 11:29-39Psalms 40:5, 7-10Matthew 22:1-14 Judges 11:29-3929 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manas’seh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If thou wilt

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 18, 2021

Judges 9:6-15Psalms 21:2-7Matthew 20:1-16 Judges 9:6-156 And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abim’elech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem. 7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Ger’izim, and cried aloud and said to

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 17, 2021

Judges 6:11-24Psalms 85:9, 11-14Matthew 19:23-30 Judges 6:11-2411 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo’ash the Abiez’rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid’ianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 16, 2021

Judges 2:11-19Psalms 106:34-37, 39-40, 43-44Matthew 19:16-22 Judges 2:11-1911 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Ba’als; 12 and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among

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Aug

Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Thomas Watza

Watch: On the Path to the Priesthood | Thomas Watza August 16, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Of your charity, please pray for 21-year-old Thomas Watza who is currently studying for the sacred priesthood at Saint John Vianney College Seminary in Minnesota. Thomas hails from the parish of Saint Patrick in Brighton. As as a boy

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 15, 2021

Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10Psalms 45:10-12, 161 Corinthians 15:20-27Luke 1:39-56 Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 1019 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.1 And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman

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Aug

Mass Readings for August 14, 2021

1 John 3:13-18Psalms 116:10-13, 16-17John 15:12-17 1 John 3:13-1813 Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15 Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you