Week of August 10, 2025

1) The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - A Holy Day of Obligation

This Friday is the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a Holy Day of Obligation.

Our Mass schedule is as follows:

Thursday, August 14: 7 PM (There is no Holy Hour this night)

Friday, August 15: 7 AM, 12 PM, and 7 PM

What exactly are we celebrating with the Assumption of Mary? First, let’s look at the word “assumption.” The word “assumption” comes from the Latin word assumere, meaning “to take to oneself.” Thus, with the Assumption of Mary, we celebrate that moment when Christ took the Blessed Virgin Mary home to Himself at the end of her earthly life. Over time, and in other rites or Orthodox traditions, the Assumption of Mary is referred to as the Dormition of Mary or the Glorification of Mary. As stated by Pope Saint John Paul II in his general audience on July 2, 1997: “The dogma of the assumption affirms that Mary’s body was glorified after her death. While for other human beings the resurrection of the body will take place at the end of the world, for Mary, the glorification of her body was anticipated by a special privilege.”

Belief in the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary dates back to the earliest days of Christianity. The most substantial evidence we have comes not from Scripture but from ancient liturgical texts, iconography, and poems honoring the mother of Jesus Christ.

Mary’s Assumption into heaven was well-established theologically and was part of the devotional life of the Church by the Middle Ages. While the concept of the Assumption of Mary was undoubtedly part of the life of the Church, it wasn’t proclaimed as dogma until 1951 by Pope Pius XII in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

Pope Saint Paul VI, in his Apostolic Constitution Marialis Cultus (For the Right Ordering and Development of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary), offered a beautiful reflection on Mary’s role in our lives (#57): “Contemplated in the episodes of the Gospels and in the reality which she already possesses in the City of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary offers a calm vision and a reassuring word to modern man, torn as he often is between anguish and hope, defeated by the sense of his own limitations and assailed by limitless aspirations, troubled in his mind and divided in his heart, uncertain before the riddle of death, oppressed by loneliness while yearning for fellowship, a prey to boredom and disgust. She shows forth the victory of hope over anguish, of fellowship over solitude, of peace over anxiety, of joy and beauty over boredom and disgust, of eternal visions over earthly ones, of life over death.”

Mother of the Church, pray for us! Queen assumed into Heaven, pray for us!

2) Upcoming Retrouvaille Weekend

What is Retrouvaille?

• The Retrouvaille Program is for Married Couples Facing Difficult Challenges in their Relationship

• A Marriage program that helps couples restore their marriage and rebuild a loving relationship.

• A Christian marriage program, Catholic in origin, where couples of all faiths or no faith background are encouraged to attend.

• Primarily a practical program to improve communication, build stronger marriages, and help couples reconnect.

• Presenters are not trained marriage counselors, but rather couples sharing their personal stories of marital struggles and the tools they used to rediscover their love.

3) Youth Group Welcome Back Gathering

4) Assumption Greek Orthodox Church's Greekfest 2025

5) Support ALL Students Campaign

Lawmakers are currently working to complete the state budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The state budget provides funding for services that benefit all Michiganders, including for the education of children.

Nonpublic schools educate more than 100,000 Michigan children and do so by offering high-quality academic opportunities and the formation of children into the virtuous citizens and leaders that our state needs.

Regardless of the type of school, all students benefit from essential support services that include safe and secure buildings, access to healthy meals and mental health assistance, and learning from quality teachers.

Michigan lawmakers should support all students in all schools - including nonpublic - when it comes to funding these universal support services.

6) Five Great Summer Pilgrimages

From Faith Magazine: As families continue with summer trips, remember that there are many pilgrimage sites throughout the country, and even here in Michigan. Here are Five pilgrimage sites in Michigan that are worth a visit.

Blessed Solanus Casey Center, Detroit

Blessed Solanus Casey was beatified in 2017. Should the Vatican affirm another miracle by Blessed Solanus, he will be canonized a saint. As reports of favors attributed to Blessed Solanus continue to circulate, it seems like just a matter of time. The Blessed Solanus Casey Center in Detroit is adjoined to the Capuchin Friary where Casey lived most of his life. The center features exhibits regarding Blessed Solanus’ life. And, of course, be sure to visit his tomb and pray for his intercession. You may just walk away with a miracle.

Basilica of Sainte Anne, Detroit

St. Anne Parish was founded in 1701 and is the second-oldest continuously operating parish in the United States. Father Gabriel Richard served as pastor in the early 1800s. It features neo-Gothic architecture and beautiful stained-glass windows. St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and grandmother of our Lord, is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Detroit. Be sure to visit the shrine to St. Anne, which is a side altar in the southeast corner of the church, and which features a first-class relic of St. Anne. In 2020, Pope Francis elevated St. Anne’s to a minor basilica, affirming its importance. See the parish website for tours and Mass times. It’s located near the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit’s Mexicantown. Consider El Rancho or Xochimilco for lunch.

National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak

Also near Detroit, this church was elevated to a minor basilica in 2014 and was constructed in the 1930s in the art deco style. The shrine is in honor of the French Carmelite nun St. Therese of Lisieux, known as the Little Flower. Check the parish website for Mass times and tours.

Cross in the Woods, Indian River

Near Interstate 75 and 30 minutes south of the Mackinac Bridge is the Cross in the Woods Shrine. The shrine features the world’s largest outdoor crucifix, Stations of the Cross, and several prayer shrines. I particularly like the holy stairs leading up to the base of the cross, which you can ascend on your knees as a devotional practice. The stairs are designed to replicate the 28 steps of the Holy Stairs, the stairs Jesus is traditionally believed to have climbed to reach Pontius Pilate. The original Holy Stairs are in Rome, where pilgrims likewise ascend on their knees. Mass is frequently celebrated outdoors under the giant crucifix.

St. Peter Cathedral, Marquette

In my view, this is the most beautiful cathedral in Michigan. The cathedral was dedicated in 1939 and features a beautiful edifice with symmetrical bell towers. The interior features Romanesque columns, a spacious nave, and a mural of Christ above the sanctuary. A side chapel houses the tomb of Venerable Bishop Frederic Baraga, the “snowshoe” bishop, who was the Diocese of Marquette’s first bishop. It is an excellent, quiet place to pray.

7) Registration for Faith Formation 2025

8) Help Connect College Students to their Faith and Local Catholic College Communities

9) CSA 2025

Each year, the CSA allows us to celebrate how our Church in Detroit responds to the material and spiritual needs of individuals and families throughout southeast Michigan. One parish alone could not meet these many needs. It is through the sharing of our gifts and our service that we, together, can be the Church Christ wants us to be.

Would you consider making a gift to this year’s CSA? Your generosity allows more than 100 ministries, services, and programs to fulfill this year's CSA theme: Feed My Sheep, taken from the Gospel of John.

Our CSA goal this year is $205,013. Anything raised above the goal will return to the parish, while the parish must cover any shortfalls. Thus, your support is greatly needed and appreciated.

If you have not given yet this year, please follow the instructions found in that mailing or make a gift electronically by clicking the button below or by visiting https://givecsa.org/st-joan-of-arc.

10) Why Series: Why Register as a Parishioner?

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12) Ascension's Bible and Catechism App

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13) Holy Hour on Thursdays

14) This Sunday's Readings: August 10, 2025 - The 19th Sunday in Orddinary Time

15) Sunday Reflections by Jeff Cavins

The 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

In this week's Encountering the Word video, Jeff Cavins discusses what it really means to have faith. The Sunday Readings are:

First Reading: Wisdom 18:6-9

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22

Second Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 or 8-12

Gospel: Luke 12:32-48

16) Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

What Is Faith?

Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand with Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, who said that faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary. Critics of religious say that faith is accepting things on the basis of no evidence; it’s believing any old nonsense; it’s naïveté; it’s superstition. But this has nothing to do with what the Bible means by faith.

17) Grow+Go

Grow+Go, content is designed to help you understand what it means to be an evangelizing disciple of Christ. Using the Sunday Scriptures as the basis for reflection, Grow+Go offers insight into how we can all more fully GROW as disciples and then GO evangelize, fulfilling Christ's Great Commission to "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19) The concept behind the weekly series is to make discipleship and evangelization simple, concrete, and relatable.

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18) Giving to SJA:

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19) TALLer Tales

A Day with the Sisters: On the day of our mom’s surgery, we were ready to camp out in the surgical waiting area. My sister Jackie had a brilliant idea: she was going to bring a bunch of work and spend most of the hours at the hospital on her laptop. I was prepared to bring my toolkit of electronics to make it all happen, but then I realized that with us there, we’d probably do nothing but talk the entire time. It took some convincing, but Jackie finally gave in to my suggestion that bringing work-related items would be futile. I promised her that if we got boring, we could always go back to the car and grab her laptop.

While I was sure we’d spend the time talking, I wasn’t prepared for the fact that we’d spend most of it eating. My sister Cindy brought a small insulated bag that seemed to be an endless reservoir of food. It was like a bottomless pit! She pulled out a batch of cookies my niece McKenzie had made, followed by trail mix, and a barrage of other snacks. Seriously, this little bag seemed magical. Cindy just kept pulling out more and more.

Of course, I was the leading consumer of all the snacks they brought. There was no need to talk because there seemed to be an endless supply of chocolate in that bottomless bag! Eventually, it was time for lunch, and the girls set out to find food. My recommendation was simple: check out the cafeteria, and if they didn’t like the options or couldn’t find anything to bring back, they could go out and find a Subway or Jimmy John’s. After about 15 minutes, the decision was made for Cindy to go off-site and find a Subway. When I asked what was wrong with the cafeteria, they said they couldn’t find it. At first, I rolled my eyes, wondering how they could miss it (surely there were signs everywhere). But then it hit me: we were sending one of the most directionally challenged people in the world on a mission to find a place she’d probably never locate, and the other one was just along for the ride, laughing the whole time.

When they admitted they couldn’t find the cafeteria, I asked if they had looked hard enough or checked for any wall signs pointing the way. The best response came when one of them (you can probably guess who) said, “Well, we even tried to smell where the cafeteria might be, but we couldn’t smell any food.” Once they couldn’t “smell” their way to the cafeteria, they decided they’d wandered around the hospital long enough (probably laughing the entire time) and opted to send Cindy out to Subway instead.

Eventually, we got word that our mom was being moved to a room. They suggested we move our vehicles to the front of the hospital and enter through the main entrance. After gathering our snacks and tidying up our area, we made the move. Keep in mind, I was still struggling to walk, and Jackie was in a boot because of an Achilles tendon tear. We finally made it to the parking lot (though they forgot their older brother, who could barely walk, and left me trailing behind), moved our cars, and began the journey to our mom’s room. As we approached the section, it dawned on us that we were heading to a part of the hospital almost directly above the surgical waiting area! We could have saved half an hour of maneuvering if we’d just paid attention to the signs.

My niece McKenzie joined us, bringing even more food! We were now ready to meet our mom after surgery and help her settle in for the night. Any adventure with the Bugarin kids has always been, and will always be, an adventure filled with laughs and food. And, needless to say, Jackie never once asked for her laptop to do any work!

Thankfully, our mom has been doing well since her surgery. Hopefully, she’ll be out of her hard neck brace by the weekend and into a soft neck brace for the next few weeks. Now, we just have to wait for the once compressed nerves to heal. Thanks for your prayers!

Enjoy the week. Know of my prayers.

In Christ,

gmb@sjascs.org

20) Voiland's View

As a young boy, I was fascinated with electricity. I loved to read what Thomas Alva Edison managed to do with electricity – and he did more than just create just a light bulb! Edison was a contemporary of, and collaborator with, Alexander Graham Bell, who patented the first practical telephone. My dad worked as a lineman, and later as a test man, for Michigan Bell Telephone Company. I think it was my father’s work in an industry that enabled people to send their voices long distances over copper wires that spurred my interest in electricity. I loved hooking a little light bulb, a switch, and a battery together with some wires to make the bulb light up! It is safe to say, technology has advanced a little since then.

It is amazing to think about how much more complicated life has become in my mere sixty-five years on earth. As a teenager, my interest in light bulbs and batteries shifted to solid state electronics. At the risk of boring a person with too much uninteresting history, my teen years were a time when electronic vacuum tubes, which made TVs and radios work, were being completely replaced by transistors. (Remember transistor radios?) It was a one-for-one exchange: one transistor would replace one vacuum tube. Vacuum tubes generally ranged in size from your little finger to a small cucumber. Transistors, on the other hand, were the size of your baby fingernail, or smaller. So, transistors had big advantages in space-saving and power consumption. Nowadays, in modern electronics devices, like the phones we carry in our pockets and purses, a tiny silicon wafer, smaller than a postage stamp, contains tens of billions of transistors.

The point of this article is not to ramble on about the wonders of technology. Who cares, as long as our stuff works? What this article is about is complexity. Our lives have become incredibly complex for more reasons than advancement in computer circuitry. The complications we face on a daily basis are largely due to our allowing them to sneak into our personal lives. All too often, we invite unnerving complexity into our day-to-day routine . . . and it spells trouble. We find ourselves flailing about in a swirling sea of confusion and exhaustion. Such overwhelming overload is the result of lives that simply contain too much.

The oppressive sense of defeat that plagues many of us comes from a seeming inability to keep up with everyone else in the world. What appear to be basic tasks that any kid could do end up being unclimbable mountains of defeat. But as much as it might seem otherwise, being unable to retrieve our email or order a meal at a restaurant is not a reason for sadness. Doing just those simple things has become a complicated process. Both searching for an electronic message or finding a menu on an internet webpage present a multitude of opportunities for failure. Between problems with our phone/computer, accessibility to the internet, constant changes to computer programs, our personal memory lapses, and a host of other unpredictable variables, our food may never get ordered nor our messages ever received. In many ways, we are at the mercy of our complicated systems.

We don’t even need machines to complicate our lives, though. We can do it all by ourselves. Consider how much we tangle up our lives by making unrealistic demands on each other. In our “it’s-all-about-ME-society,” we easily take others for granted and expect them to be at our beck and call. This heaps tons of pressure on kind and generous people whom we think are just waiting in the wings for us to let them help us. They have lives, too. But we stress our relationships by making them into a series of transactions, rather than simply being with others for the sake of spending time in each other’s presence.

Excessive complexity in our relationships and our everyday dealings has an insidious way of showing up in the first place. Take credit cards, for example. It seems simple to insert, swipe, or tap a plastic card or smart phone on a screen to purchase a gallon of milk, rather than digging a five-dollar bill out of our wallet, then waiting for a clerk to give us change that we don’t much want to carry. Yet, assuming our card isn’t rejected, there will a bill that has to be paid in the future; concern about whether we have used our credit card too much; did we use the right card to get the biggest ‘cash back’ deal; are there any fraudulent charges on our account; are we wasting extra money on finance charges; how’s our credit score doing; are our bank statements actually accurate; and where did I put my credit card anyway? Compared to all of this, if we can scrape up a five-dollar bill, the milk buying thing gets done pretty simply.

This line of thought may seem excessive, but it truly is not. Even though our use of credit has become so second nature to us that we don’t think about it, all of the associated concerns with doing so are constantly rattling around in our subconscious brains. All of this background activity takes energy and taxes our mental capacity. And almost everything we do now involves a heightened level of complexity, just like purchasing with credit. “What’s the latest way the school is going to communicate with me: Email? Text? Robocalls? Social media? What will it take to find out from my doctor what is wrong with me? Do I even have someone I can honestly call ‘my doctor?’ How do I get this ‘livestream’ thing to work? Why am I so dumb?”

Well, you’re not dumb. We’re not dumb. The problem is that we have way overcomplicated just about everything we possibly can. Doing so is contrary to the way God made us as human beings. Although our physical, human bodies are the most complicated thing we know of that God created, we are not meant to live complicated lives. We are meant to have a “poverty of spirit so that we might inherit the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). We can possess an increasing share of God’s kingdom now, on earth, if we would learn to simplify as much as possible. This will mean rejecting much of what the world and its culture insists that we absolutely must have to be ‘happy, successful, beautiful, powerful, rich, sexy, influential, smart, famous . . . whatever.’ Hogwash!

What the world does not give a hoot about is us being: wise, peaceful, holy, gentle, spiritual, content, thankful, generous, humble, sacrificial . . . actually happy. All of these things are what come from living the life of Christ. Excessive complexity steals our opportunity to even think about these things. Reject the excessively busy, soul-stealing complications of “modern” life. These distractions are a massive waste of our precious God-given time. Slow down. Choose the better thing.

Peace in Christ,

Fr. Bob

rvoiland@sjascs.org

21) Ascension Presents: Father Mike Schmitz

The Best Thing Fr. Mike Learned From His Parents

Looking for a powerful book recommendation? Look no further. Fr. Mike’s new book Unshakeable is all about living a life of virtue in the midst of chaos.

Fr. Mike shares why he dedicated the book to his parents, the best advice they ever gave him, and the four simple words that can change everything: “Trust in the Lord.”

22) Words on the Word: August 10, 2025 - Home Sweet Home

Whatever our housing arrangements, we understandably think of our home as our castle.

For some, home might mean a literal castle with more bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas than can be imagined.

For others, home might mean a studio apartment with a stove a few feet from the bed, which in turn is a few feet from the bathroom.

Regardless, when we’re home, we’re safe, secure, and separated from the outside world. Or at least that’s the way it should be.

Local media reported a few weeks ago on a woman found deceased in her Shelby Township apartment. According to a story in The Detroit News, the situation was being treated as a homicide and there was a suspect in custody. 

No other details were provided at the time of this writing, such as who the suspect was and under what circumstances he or she may have been in the woman’s apartment. 

Nevertheless, the idea of falling victim to such a suspected crime at all, let alone in one’s own home, is disconcerting.

It was as true for the people in Jesus’ time as it is for us today, and so Jesus uses that scenario to draw our attention to a much larger truth.

The need to be ready.

“Be sure of this,” Jesus says in today’s gospel passage from St. Luke, painting the picture for his listeners, “if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 

“You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” 

That eventuality should be something we anticipate with confidence and joy, not fear or dread. Jesus’ point: It’s entirely in our hands.

© 2025 Words on the Word

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24) 52 Stories: Good News from Spirit Juice Studios

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25) Hallow App:

Are you looking for a one-stop app for prayer and meditation? Look no further than Hallow. Hallow is an awesome prayer app. Hallow is a Catholic prayer and meditation app that helps users deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided contemplative prayer sessions. The app launched 2 years ago and is already the #1 Catholic app in the world.

We have a number of parishioners who are already using the app and loving it (my mom being one of them and she is on the app most of the day). Great for praying alone or together with your spouse/family, Hallow truly has something for everyone, no matter what you are going through (see below for their different content categories).

Hallow is free to download and has tons of permanently free content, as well as a premium subscription, Hallow Plus.

To get started, simply click the button above/below to activate your free account on the Hallow website. Make sure to select “Sign Up with Email” when registering. For step-by-step instructions, you can visit this process guide. Enter the code stjoanofarcmi to obtain a discount on individual pro plans.

26) Men of the Sacred Heart

27) Mass Intentions for the Week:

Monday, August 11, 2025, Saint Clare, Virgin (White)

7:00 am: Special Intention for the St. Vincent DePaul Volunteers

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Weekday; Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious (Green/White)

7:00 am: John G. Champine

Wednesday, August 13, 2025, Weekday; Saints Pontian, Pope and Hippolytus, Priest and Martyrs (Green/Red)

7:00 am: Tina Calisi

6:00 pm: Special Intention for Christine Bugarin

Thursday, August 14, 2025, Saint Maximillian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr; Vigil for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Red/White)

7:00 am: Marie Champine

7:00 pm: Jim Gutowski

Friday, August 15, 2025, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (White)

7:00 am: A Special Intention for the Rogier & Dettloff Families

12:00 pm: Michael Timmreck

7:00 pm: For the Intentions of St. Joan of Arc Parishioners

Saturday, August 16, 2025, Vigil for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Green)

4:00 pm: Domenica & Serafino DiBerardino, Bonnie Batche, Edward, Helen & Henry Blind, Terri Smigels, Jack Vandenboom, Joan Weber, Dr. Lori Karol, Dennis Lex, Susan Duff, Ronald Dichtel, Danny Adam: Kozick, Ricky D. Baron, and Special Intentions for Nancy Dichtel, for the living & deceased members of the J. Champine Family, for the Thomas Family

6:00 pm: Charlotte Power

Sunday, August 17, 2025, Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Green)

8:00 am: The Intentions of SJA Parishioners

10:00 am: Lewis McQuillan

12:00 pm: Tom Sheppard, Rosemarie Houghton, Thomas Weinbeck, Rita Corradi, and Special Intention for Beth Agnello, Laurie Ruda, and Sam: Baur

28) This Week on St. Joan of Arc LIVE:

This week's LIVE Stream

Schedule at St. Joan of Arc:

Monday (August 11)

7:00 AM - Mass

Tuesday (August 12):

7:00 AM - Mass

Wednesday (August 13):

7:00 AM - Mass

6:00 PM - Mass

Thursday (August 14):

7:00 AM - Mass

7:00 PM - Mass



Friday (August 15):

7:00 AM - Mass

12:00 PM - Mass

7:00 PM - Mass

Saturday (August 16):

12:30 PM - Baptism of Symone Sandra Smoyer

1:30 PM - Baptism of Giovanna Florence Nowotny

4:00 PM - Mass

5:00 PM - Baptism of Wells R. Sterba, Cormac D. Schrage, Brooks G. Schrage, and John E. Schrage

6:00 PM - Mass

Sunday (August 17):

8:00 AM - Mass

10:00 AM - Mass

12:00 PM - Mass

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