1) Confession Opportunities During Lent | |
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During the season of Lent, we have scheduled the following confession opportunities:
Mondays: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesdays: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Saturdays: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Sacrament is celebrated in the Sr. Carol Center; signs with further directions are posted in the Gathering Place.
There will also be two communal penance services in the SERF Vicariate. These are communal penance services with individual confession. These have been scheduled for:
Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1 pm at St. Margaret of Scotland
Monday, April 14, 2025 at 7 pm at St. Joan of Arc
As we mentioned at the weekend masses, don't worry if you've forgotten the prayers or how to go to confession. We will guide you through it. And it doesn't matter how long it has been since you've last gone to confession. Just come and experience the Lord's awesome gift of mercy!
From Ascension Presents: Confession is a place of never-ending mercy and forgiveness, and is one of the most beautiful parts of our Catholic faith. But for many, it can also be a very daunting experience, especially if it’s been a long time since your last confession. Whether it’s the first time you’ve gone in a year, or it’s the first time you’ve gone in your life, God is ready and willing to forgive your sins. All we have to do is let him into our hearts.
In the following video, Fr. Mike Schmitz explains how to approach going to confession for the first time in a long time.
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From Fr. Casey Cole, OFM
Most Common Problems I See in Confession (and how to fix!)
The sacrament of confession is a graced space. Unfortunately, many people do not utilize the time they have and need better catechesis. I react to a number of problems I see all the time in order to help make it a more fruitful experience.
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2) How to Lent | Episode 2: The Importance of Prayer During Lent | |
From FORMED.ORG: Prayer is the way that we nurture our relationship with God, that we communicate with Him! It's the foundation of the Christian life, and even more highlighted during Lent. Why? In this episode of How To Lent, join Solenne Santiago, Augustine Institute professors, priests, and religious to learn what the Church has to say about prayer. How can we apply it specifically to this special season this year? Find out now in this episode! | |
3) Pope Francis Thanks People for their Prayers | |
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From Detroit Catholic: VATICAN CITY (CNS) – On his 21st day in Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis recorded a 27-second audio message thanking people for their prayers.
Played before the nightly recitation of the rosary in St. Peter's Square March 6, the pope said, "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my health from the square; I accompany you from here. May God bless you and the Virgin protect you. Thank you."
The message in Spanish was recorded in the hospital earlier in the day, the Vatican press office said, offering no other details.
The 88-year-old pope, who has been battling double pneumonia, had obvious difficulty speaking in the recording, but it was the first time the public had heard his voice since he was hospitalized Feb. 14 for bronchitis and difficulty breathing.
The rosary was led by Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, who announced the recording as "good news, a beautiful gift." The hundreds of people in the square applauded before and after listening to the pope.
Shortly before the audio was released, the pope's doctors had said in their evening bulletin that Pope Francis' condition remained stable, and he continued his respiratory and physical therapy "with benefit."
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4) As he turns page, Archbishop Vigneron gives God thanks for a lifetime of graces | |
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From Detroit Catholic:
DETROIT — When history books are written about the Archdiocese of Detroit, it’s safe to say the chapter covering Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron’s time as chief shepherd will be called “Unleash the Gospel.”
More than a pastoral letter, the archbishop’s 2017 document has become a living movement, a generational response to the urgency of evangelization in a modern world in many ways starved of the hope promised by Christ’s resurrection.
That chapter began in 2009, when Pope Benedict XVI called the Detroit native home from Oakland, Calif., to shepherd his hometown flock; it will conclude on March 18, 2025, when his successor, Archbishop-designate Edward J. Weisenburger, is installed as the sixth archbishop of Detroit.
On Oct. 21, 2023, Archbishop Vigneron celebrated his 75th birthday, the age at which bishops of the Catholic Church are required by canon law to offer their resignations to the pope.
The archbishop would serve another year and a half before Pope Francis would accept his resignation and appoint a successor.
In late 2023, Archbishop Vigneron spoke to Detroit Catholic in a lengthy interview reflecting on his life, ministry and the blessings he's experienced growing up and ultimately shepherding God's people in southeast Michigan.
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5) High School Youth Group | |
7) Need a Lenten Challenge? Here Are 25 Things to Give Up for Lent in 2025 | |
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From Churchpop.com: Lent begins on Wed., March 5, 2025. Have you thought about what you’re doing for Lent?
Here’s a list of challenges for the Lenten season that might help you deeply ponder this season's purpose.
1) Sweet treats.
This one may sound simple, but it's often the hardest to give up. With the rise of the "sweet treat" trend, getting hooked is easy. This Lent, challenge yourself to go beyond just one type of sugary snack and give them all up.
2) Clean out your closet.
Lent is a great opportunity to donate to your local charities and a chance for you to make space in your closet and heart for the Lenten season. Plus, it might be the perfect time to let your sister borrow that one shirt of yours she’s been begging to wear.
3) Give up Meat throughout Lent.
Instead of waiting to abstain from meat until Friday, try restricting yourself completely from it for 40 days.
4) Complaining.
Challenge yourself to do it anyway, without finding excuses. If you want to take the extra step, put a dollar in a jar and donate it to charity every time you fail by the end of Lent.
5) Wastefulness.
Whether it's food, garbage, or gas, we tend to waste many resources readily available to us. Let us be mindful of what we use and only take what we need. Try walking or riding a bike to places you usually drive. Think about using reusable bags or containers when storing food or grocery shopping.
6) Listening to your favorite artist.
Take a break from listening to artists we might unknowingly idolize. Try listening to something that draws your attention towards Christ and away from those who may hinder growth in your faith.
7) Oversleeping.
Some days we fall into the habit of waking up at our leisure. This Lent, make a point to set an alarm and be disciplined about waking up at the same time each day.
8) Spending money on unnecessary items.
A good trick for Lent might be to delete Apple Pay and the cards in your online wallet. The impulse buying will subside.
9) Excessive talking.
Challenge yourself to communicate more effectively by using fewer words. This will open space for others to share thoughts or opinions. This might give you a chance to restrict yourself on using filler words such as “umm" and “like.”
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9) Women at the Well Retreat | |
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11) Ascension's Bible and Catechism App | |
It's Here: The Bible & Catechism App!
The word of God and the complete teachings of the Catholic Church. Answers and commentary by Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, and other experts. Video, audio, and textual commentary. Right on your phone.
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The Ascension App Includes:
The full text of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible with color coding interwoven throughout so you can immediately recognize where you are in the story of salvation history.
The full text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church with The Foundations of Faith color-coding built in.
Every episode of Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz for easy access and cross-referencing with your reading plan and Scripture.
Every released episode of the Catechism in a Year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz so you can easily stay on top of your daily readings.
Summaries, the exact wording of Fr. Mike’s daily prayers, and extra content for every single episode of Bible in a Year.
Over 1,000 commonly asked questions about the Bible with answers right in the text from experts like Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, and others.
An interactive reading plan for both podcasts that tracks your progress.
Notes and bookmarks so you can quickly pick up where you left off and write down your reflections and prayers along the way.
…And we're just getting started. More to be announced soon!
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12) Holy Hour on Thursdays | |
13) Stations of the Cross | |
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A Transformative Walk with Jesus: How to Pray the Stations of the Cross
From Church Pop:
The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Way of the Cross and the Way of Sorrow (Via Crucis in Latin), detail fourteen different moments on the day Jesus died.
This prayer pilgrimage is a powerful way to grow closer to Jesus at any time of the year, though it is most popular during the Lenten season.
“The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.” – Pope Francis
What are the Stations of the Cross?
The Stations of the Cross are commonly prayed during the Lenten season. Tradition holds that Christ died on a Friday at 3 p.m. Because of this, many parishes offer Stations of the Cross services at this time on Fridays during Lent.
However, you can pray the Stations of the Cross at any time of the day, and you’re not limited to Lent when it comes to this devotion to Christ.
Brief Origin of the Stations of the Cross
Tradition holds that after Christ’s Death and Resurrection, the Blessed Mother retraced Jesus’ last day every day.
Over the centuries following Christ’s Resurrection, this practice transformed into what we know as the Stations of the Cross today. To put it simply, the Good News continued to spread, and so did the popularity of following in the footsteps of Christ, either in the Holy Land or with the stations elsewhere.
However, it wasn’t until 1462 that the word “stations” was associated with this pilgrimage, either a replicated one or through the original sites; historians credit William Wey with the term “stations.”
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14) This Sunday's Readings: March 9, 2025 - The First Sunday of Lent | |
15) Sunday Reflections by Jeff Cavins | |
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The First Sunday of
Jeff Cavins reflects on the readings for the First Sunday of Lent:
First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
Second Reading: Romans 10:8-13
Gospel: Luke 4:1-13
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16) Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon | |
Three Questions to Ask Yourself During Lent
Friends, we come to the holy season of Lent. Pascal said that most of us go through life diverting and distracting ourselves so that we don’t come to terms with the big questions: God, meaning, purpose, eternal life. The Gospel for this week, Luke’s marvelous account of the temptation of Jesus, invites us to wrestle with three questions in particular.
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Now I am CONVINCED I am Old: I remember as a teenager or young adult going with my parents to pick up our grandparents or elderly relatives, whether for a shopping excursion or a doctor’s appointment. Back in the days when malls were in style, it wasn’t too uncommon for us to pick them up and sometimes head over to Lakeside or Oakland Mall. In fact, just recently, a few of us in the family were talking about our weeknight jaunts over to Lakeside, where we would have the opportunity to run around, do some shopping, and then meet up in the food court for dinner. One thing was certain about those outings: our dad would just find one of those sunken sitting areas where he would “park it” for hours, just people-watching. He would then meander over to the food court, park himself again, and wait for the troops to gather for dinner. Those were fun outings.
But those outings with Grandma and Grandpa were always special. As our grandparents grew older, there was always one thing for certain that would happen when we arrived to pick them up: they would be ready with hats, coats, and gloves—or whatever was needed—and it would appear they had been ready for hours. Okay, maybe not hours, but they were usually all bundled up and ready to go. I’m sure they would even peer out their window, waiting for the car to arrive!
Fast forward to today, where I find myself needing rides and assistance to go anywhere. While I’m getting good at moving about the top floor of my house (my real safety zone), I have meandered downstairs only a couple of times by myself. I’ve found that I’ve had to be very clever with my trips. Getting up and down the stairs is a challenge with the iWalk, as I have to walk backwards … and carefully, while using both hands to balance myself on the wall and handrail. Then, when I’m near the door, I have to make sure I turn the right way so I don’t go tumbling down the basement stairs … I’m done with surgeries this year!!!
But two weeks ago, I was waiting for Saintly Father Bob to arrive to walk me over to the Parish Center for lunch. (Oh my, he’s going to need a huge vacation after these past two months.) Getting out of the house and “walking” over to the Parish Center has become a highlight of the year. And on this particular day, I was so ready to get out of the house, I was prepped about a half hour before the appointed time. I was so excited about my 1-minute walk to the Parish Center that I wandered downstairs myself and got everything in place for the journey. I also knew that I had to be super cautious because one false move or fall would mean they would never trust me again. My coat was on, my knee scooter was ready, I was connected and strapped into my iWalk; I was totally ready to go. Since I was so early, I decided to sit at my kitchen counter as best I could with everything on and in place. It was pretty funny trying to sit with my iWalk in place. Thankfully, I’m tall and have long legs, which helped the process. And there I sat, just staring at the door … waiting for Father Bob to arrive. I was getting a bit hot because I had my big winter coat on, but it didn’t matter because I was going on an outing … if only a hundred feet across the way, and I was READY! Suddenly, I had a flashback of my grandparents waiting at the door for us to arrive, and I realized, OH MY … I’ve become my grandparents.
Led into the Desert: Every year, as I reflect on this weekend’s Gospel, I’m always struck by one line: “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert ….” Just as the Spirit led Jesus into the desert, we too find ourselves being led into our own deserts—probably more often than we wish. Here, we are called to face our temptations and strive to turn our lives and hearts more completely to God. And, just as Jesus emerged from the 40 days in the desert and went and proclaimed the Gospel in Galilee, we too are called to emerge from the desert as Easter people, ready and willing to proclaim the Gospel to all we meet on our journey.
While many of us have never been in a desert and don’t comprehend the harsh environment it entails, we know that if you remain still, your chances of survival are minimal. To survive, you MUST traverse the desert. You cannot remain still.
During this Lenten season, we enter our own desert(s). Sometimes the deserts we face are frightening and overwhelming, like dealing with a terminal illness or helping a spouse or parent with Alzheimer’s. Some deserts might be the fear of losing a job or health care. Some deserts might be the reality that a college education for our child may no longer be a possibility because of finances. Some deserts might be the same as those in years past; it might be the desert of addiction or sinful behavior. It could be the desert of isolation because you don’t have many family members or friends. Whatever the desert, we are called to traverse it with God’s help and emerge from it as risen people!
Too often, in the deserts of our lives, we lose sight of the “promised land” or the oasis we seek. Sometimes, we even forget that God NEVER leaves us orphaned or abandoned. We need to realize that God is present in our desert experiences and that it is only with His help that we get the courage and strength to keep moving toward better land.
Yes, we may have been led into a desert we didn’t expect. We may wonder why we were led down this road. Lent is about facing the deserts of our lives. It is not about asking the question “why” but rather “how” this desert experience might be calling us to conversion and repentance. Lent is about doing something to traverse the desert in order to emerge as changed people.
The question remains: what helps us traverse the desert? First, we must realize that the Spirit is present, and much like with Jesus, angels are present to minister to us. Second, we need to orient our hearts and minds toward God. You need a strong GPS, and you need to keep focused. You need to know where you are going. Could you imagine entering into Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps, “How can I get to heaven TODAY,” and they would show you what steps, what acts of kindness, what prayer would help you on the journey that day? Without intentional focus, you can wander for a long time. If you want to go someplace, if you truly want to emerge from your desert, you need the proper tools. For Christians, the ultimate tool is a relationship with God. Without THAT relationship, without prayer, without our guides (our Bible, our devotionals, etc.), we may never find our oasis. Prayer then becomes our GPS to help us get out of the deserts of our lives. How will you use prayer this Lent to help you traverse whatever desert you are facing?
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Enjoy the week. Happy Lent! Know of my prayers!
In Christ,
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In order to be really good at anything, pretty much anyone knows it takes practice . . . practice . . . practice. It doesn’t matter what the goal is: to shine as an athlete, to become proficient speaking a new language, to skillfully play a musical instrument, to sew or crochet beautifully, to excel at an academic subject, to master a skilled trade, to have a perfectly manicured lawn – the list goes on. For a person to attain a high degree of success at anything takes consistent, often painstaking, practice.
As it turns out, being good at living the moral life isn’t any different. It takes consistent, repetitive practice to “do good and avoid evil” – which is the first rule of natural law. This doesn’t come as welcome news to many of us. In fact, I would venture to say that almost none of us is thrilled with the thought of having to be good all of the time. We like to take a break every so often from the exhausting grind of staying on the straight and narrow. We like to take those scattered moments to “let our hair down” (if we have any) and “walk on the wild side” a bit.
It's a common enough sentiment to want to pull back, once in a while, from the strain of living upstanding moral lives. It is genuinely exhausting being constantly good in a culture that embraces a lot of decadent behaviors which directly oppose living a healthy moral life. Indeed, we are in a moral fight that never ends. Battle fatigue is nasty.
To make the moral life more manageable, we compartmentalize our lives. We set up segments of our lives that we keep separated from each other so that we can forget about the big picture of the battle. We bracket out from each other: family, career/education, church, vacation, shopping, playtime, rest, and others.
And there are subdivisions of those compartments, too: husband & wife relationship vs. whole family dynamics; actually working at work vs. wasting time when no one is looking; paying attention to the teacher in class vs. looking out the window or dozing; visiting historical or natural attractions away from home vs. dumping all our money in Vegas; buying what we need at a store vs. walking up and down aisles trying to find something we don’t need; going out for a walk or playing a favorite sport vs. getting wasted out on the patio; getting a decent night’s sleep vs. pushing ourselves until we collapse. And, yes, there are many more divisions.
What is interesting about creating all of these mental subdivisions in our lives is that we use them to keep from considering life as a whole. Consider, for a moment, just the major categories of family, work, and church/faith to understand what is going on here. We often don’t think about how much work life and home life affect each other. We think we can just ‘flip a switch’ and change from career person to family member. But, we are still the same person! Further, we don’t consider how our faith life affects both home and work. We keep ‘church’ in a private box because it is easier to deal with worldly things on worldly terms than on supernatural, or divine, terms. Yet, who we say we are persons of faith, we should be the same persons living in the world.
Where this chopping up of our lives into discrete segments is most harmful is in the subtle way it keeps us from fighting off daily temptations. When we separate our moral/church/faith practices from our day-to-day behavior, we set ourselves up for failure. Yes, we might want a break from “being good” all the time – from being “religious.” But, by giving ourselves a break from fighting moral battles by dipping back into worldliness, we actually make it more difficult to live right. By resubmerging ourselves in worldly attractions, we undo the progress we have made in our moral life. The Book of Proverbs uses the rather crude image of a dog going back to its own vomit – but the image works. When we bounce back and forth between righteous, Godly living and coarse worldly living, we cannot make much progress in spiritual growth. We won’t be able to reach true excellence as Catholics.
The need to be continuously focused on our Catholic Christianity is a new (even disturbing) realization for me.
This is a very difficult aspect of successful Christian living. We naturally want a break from the great effort it takes to live genuinely solid moral lives. But when we let down our guard for a moment, and allow ourselves to “take a break” from our morality by entertaining a moral weakness within us, we are basically guaranteed to never fully break free from our pet sins. By working to always stay in the City of God, as St. Augustine put it, rather than in the City of the World, we can progressively break the bonds of sins that plague us.
By practicing the Faith, like a gymnast practices hour after hour and day after day, to become a champion, we can surely have the same kind of success.
The problem with becoming a champion Catholic is that it takes far more work than a gymnast would ever be able to put in. We have to strive to live the Catholic faith constantly. It is profoundly difficult to maintain such a level of spiritual performance on our own. Yet our mission is not to attain spiritual perfection now, but to stay consistently on the path. We will progress with the help of the Holy Spirit, as time passes – and progress will show. We will feel our sinful tendencies loosen . . . and then lose their grip on us. There is joy to be had in reaping that slow success. It takes work! But the Lord is present to strengthen us for the fight with his powerful grace!
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21) Ascension Presents: Father Mike Schmitz | |
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Train for Martyrdom This Lent
Should you give things up for Lent, or take new things on? Is it better to pray more, or to give more of your time away? How does almsgiving fit into all of this?
This Lent, Fr. Mike wants to refocus your efforts by trying a new idea: do something with zero benefit to yourself. This is how to do that and why it works.
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22) Words on the Word: March 9, 2025 - Hungry and Tired | |
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Food insecurity. It’s one of those terms that makes a life-and-death matter seem a little more clinical.
The Detroit News did a story several months ago about the urgency of food insecurity in the metro area. As part of the story, the writer included this definition from the United States Department of Agriculture: “Limited or uncertain availability of adequate foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways.”
Any definition, of course, would probably fall short of the human impact. People facing this problem are hungry with a hunger that goes beyond what, God willing, most others know as hunger when dinner is delayed for a couple of hours. The story went on to provide these statistics: “In Michigan, 1.4 million people, or 1 in 7, are facing hunger…
“Food insecurity increased in Michigan from 11.2% in 2020 to 11.9%” a few years later, the most recent measurements available at the time. One guesses the urgency might have gotten even more acute since then.
For those who ever have felt the pangs of hunger, the temptation to be short with others – to be more prone to anger or other negative emotions – or to take actions we otherwise might not, is very real. It’s interesting then, that today’s gospel account from St. Luke of Jesus’ experience in the desert began with fasting.
“Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil,” St. Luke writes. “He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry.”
As we begin our Lenten journey, may we be reminded that the things we experience – hunger being a very real example – Jesus faced too. And may we follow his example in dealing with the temptations that inevitably follow.
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24) 52 Stories: Good News from Spirit Juice Studios | |
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Prepare to be Inspired
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In a world full of bad news, these stories will give you 52 reasons to believe that God is working through the Catholic faith to transform lives through His love and mercy. Sign up today!
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Soul of a Champion
This powerful documentary tells the incredible career and inspiring life of Gil Hodges, a baseball legend who was one of the greatest first basemen to play the game. Although he helped win world championships as a player for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers and as manager of the 1969 New York “Miracle Mets,” Hodges is still not enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
From his upbringing in rural Indiana to his WWII military service, from his illustrious baseball career on two coasts to his devoted family life as a husband and father, this documentary will introduce you to a true hero who deserves to be honored among baseball’s most significant.
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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.
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26) Mass Intentions for the Week: | |
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Monday, March 10, 2025, Lenten Weekday; Saint Patrick, Bishop (Purple)
7:00 am: Joseph & Anna Niemczyk
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, Lenten Weekday; Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Purple)
7:00 am: Thomas Tschirhart
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (White)
7:00 am Marie Champine
6:00 pm: Tina Calisi
Thursday, March 13, 2025, Lenten Weekday (Purple)
7:00 am: Dorothy Shuder
Friday, March 14, 2025, Lenten Weekday (Purple)
7:00 am: Jerry Valeck
Saturday, March 15, 2025, Vigil for the Second Sunday in Lent (Purple)
4:00 pm, Bonnie Batche, Joe Basirico, George J. Bugarin, Edward, Helen and Henry Blind, Joan Weber, Dr. Lori Karol, Michael Timmreck, Terri Smigels, Danny Elles, Denis P. Miriani, Allen Hayosh, David Sperry, Jeffrey Kirkman, Vittoria Spinelli, Special Intention for the Family of Tina Calisi, for the living and deceased members of the J. Champine Family, and for the Thomas Family
6:00 pm: Dennis Lex
Sunday, March 16, 2025, Second Sunday of Lent (Purple)
8:00 am: The Intentions of SJA Parishioners
10:00 am: Marguerite Krapp
12:00 pm: Daniel M. Bommarito, Dennis Venuto, and a Special Intention for Sam Bauer
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27) This Week on St. Joan of Arc LIVE: | |
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This week's LIVE Stream
Schedule at St. Joan of Arc:
Monday (March 10)
7:00 AM - Mass
Tuesday (March 11):
7:00 AM - Mass
Ash Wednesday (March 12):
7:00 AM - Mass
6:00 PM - Mass
Thursday (March 13):
7:00 AM - Mass
7:00 PM - Holy Hour
Friday (March 14):
7:00 AM - Mass
7:00 PM - Stations of the Cross
Saturday (March 15):
12:30 PM - Baptism of Nancy Ava Militello
1:30 PM - Baptism of Anderson Joseph Link
4:00 PM - Mass
6:00 PM - Mass
Sunday (March 16):
8:00 AM - Mass
10:00 AM - Mass
12:00 PM - Mass
Please note that all of our masses and events can be accessed through the ARCHIVE section of our Live stream page if you cannot watch it live!
We also have our own ROKU Channel. Search for "CATHOLIC" in the ROKU channel store, and you will find SJA's channel. A Fire TV Channel is also available.
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28) SJA's Latest Parish Bulletin | |
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