Read: “Who is responsible for teaching our children?” by Sheri Wohlfert February 18, 2025 Diocese of Lansing While outsourcing is common practice in modern business, our responsibility as the primary educator of our children is a terrible place to apply the practice, writes Sheri Wohlfert who is a Westphalia-based mother, grandmother, and teacher, as well
Genesis 6:5-8,7:1-5,10Psalms 29:1-4,3,9-10Mark 8:14-21 Genesis 6:5-8,7:1-5,10(5) Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. (6) Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. (7) Yahweh said, “I
Genesis 4:1-15,25Psalms 50:1,8,16-17,20-21Mark 8:11-13 Genesis 4:1-15,25(1) The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” (2) Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (3) As time
Jeremiah 17:5-8Psalms 1:1-4,61 Corinthians 15:12,16-20Luke 6:17,20-26 Jeremiah 17:5-8(5) Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. (6) For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the
Genesis 3:9-24Psalms 90:2-6,12-13Mark 8:1-10 Genesis 3:9-24(9) Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” (10) The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (11) God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
Read: How your DSA generosity helps seminarians like Deacon Brett on the path to the priesthood February 14, 2025 Diocese of Lansing This weekend sees the roll out of the 2025 Diocesan Services Appeal in parishes across the Diocese of Lansing. The theme of this year’s campaign is “You are my chosen witnesses” (Isaiah 43:10)
Genesis 3:1-8Psalms 32:1-2,5-7Mark 7:31-37 Genesis 3:1-8(1) Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” (2) The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the
Read: “Why I’m blessed to be a high school chaplain” by Father Miguel Colunga February 13, 2025 Diocese of Lansing As I enter into my fourth year of priesthood, one of the greatest joys I have as a priest is seeing people encounter the love of God, writes Father Miguel Colunga, Chaplain to Lumen Christi
Genesis 2:18-25Psalms 128:1-5Mark 7:24-30 Genesis 2:18-25(18) Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (19) Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see
Read: The power of a saintly teacher by Pete Burak February 12, 2025 Diocese of Lansing Mr. Caputo’s creative and dramatic lecturing style, including hilarious British and German accents during our World World II lessons, transformed my perspective on the study of history, writes popular Catholic writer and speaker, Pete Burak, pictured above. What was