Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Reasons for Going to Sunday Mass: Part 5: Conversing with the Word of God October 12, 2020 Diocese of Lansing Welcome to your Monday installment of Bishop Boyea’s series of seven talks on why we go to Sunday Mass. Today is Part 5: Conversing with the Word of God. We hope
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Reasons for Going to Sunday Mass: Part 6: Receiving the Eucharist October 13, 2020 Diocese of Lansing Attending Holy Mass on a Sunday is a solemn and binding obligation upon all Catholics. Indeed, it is a mortal sin to deliberately fail in this matter. This grave obligation may be suspended or
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Reasons for Going to Sunday Mass: Part 7: Intercessory Prayer October 14, 2020 Diocese of Lansing Well, here is the final installment in BIshop Earl Boyea’s Seven Reasons for Going to Sunday Mass. Part 7 is on Intercessory Prayer. “The great joy of praying each Sunday at Mass with all our
Galatians 5:18-25Psalms 1:1-4, 6Luke 11:42-46 Galatians 5:18-2518 But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as
Read: May Story of Sisterhood: Sister Chiara Luce Spankie O.P. October 13, 2020 Diocese of Lansing This summer saw Sister Chiara Luce Spankie O.P. make her final vows as a Dominican Sister of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor. Today, Sister Chiara explains her vocation story, her story of sisterhood: “As a child,
Galatians 5:1-6Psalms 119:41, 43, 45, 47-48Luke 11:37-41 Galatians 5:1-61 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 2 Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every
Please pray for our seminarians October 12, 2020 Diocese of Lansing Please pray for these 14 Diocese of Lansing’s seminarians who were initiated into Saint John Vianney College Seminary in Minnesota this weekend. “I’m very proud of the 14 young men that we’ve sent to Saint John Vianney College Seminary this year – including six
Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1Psalms 113:1-7Luke 11:29-32 Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:122 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise. 24 Now this is an
Isaiah 25:6-10Psalms 23:1-6Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20Matthew 22:1-14 Isaiah 25:6-106 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy on this mountain the covering
Watch: A Special Blessing for Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Parish October 09, 2020 Diocese of Lansing On Sunday, October 4, Bishop Boyea visited Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Parish in Lansing. Why? To bless parishioners with relics of the Saint Thérèse and her parents, Saints Louis Zélie Martin. The relics of the saintly spouses, which were