Week of October 26, 2025

1) All Saints Day - Saturday, November 1, 2025

Because the Solemnity of All Saints occurs on a Saturday this year, it is NOT a holy day of obligation.

2) Dr. Edward Sri: All Saints Day: Remembering Ordinary People Who Loved Extraordinarily

As the Catholic Church gets ready to celebrate All Saints Day, Dr. Sri reminds us that this great solemnity is not just about remembering those great canonized saints, it’s also about recognizing all those unknown holy men and women who faithfully followed Jesus throughout the ages. Dr. Sri invites to reflect how God may be calling us to be saints and to love extraordinarily in our ordinary circumstances.

Snippet from the Show: On All Saints Day we remember all the holy women and men, both canonized and unknown, who loved God and others extraordinarily in their ordinary circumstances.

3) SJA's 19th Annual School Gala: November 8, 2025

Please note: Complete tables are all reserved; we only have assorted seats left throughout the dining room. Get your tickets soon!

Ways You Can Support the Gala:

Attend the Event

• Tickets are $125/person (click the button below to purchase dinner tickets)
• Your ticket includes a plated dinner, open bar, DJ and dancing, and a front-row seat to our silent and live auctions ... and a chance to win from our Charger Corner Raffle

Buy Raffle Tickets

• $5,000 in prizes to four lucky winners!
• Raffle tickets will be on sale after all Masses beginning the weekend of October 11/12
• Tickets are $20/each or 6 for $100. Cash or check accepted (payable to St. Joan of Arc)

Donate Auction Donations

• Contact the School or Parish Center offices to donate auction items
• Give Back Boards in Church list items you can purchase
• Please note: We only accept new and wrapped items

Be a Sponsor or Advertise

• Promote your business through our various sponsorship and advertising opportunities
• Contact Emily Radatz for further information

Contact Information:

Pam Graskewicz (pgraskewicz@hotmail.com)

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Emily Radatz (emilyaradatz@gmail.com

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4) Annual Memorial Mass - Thursday, November 6, 2025

On Thursday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the Church, we will celebrate our annual Memorial Mass. Through a moving presentation and the lighting of memorial candles, we will remember by name each of the people whose funeral was celebrated at SJA during the past year.  

You also have an opportunity to submit the names of deceased relatives and friends you would like to have remembered at this Mass and throughout the month of November. 

Please download the Memorial Mass form by clicking the button below, write down the names of those you wish to be remembered, and place the sheet in the basket found on the Altar of St. Joseph or bring it to the Parish Center. Extra copies can be found in Church and at the Parish Center.

5) Right to Life March in Lansing on Thursday, November 6

Join us for the Second Michigan March for Life on November 6, 2025!

The Michigan March for Life is an excellent opportunity for advocates for life of all ages and political persuasions from across the state to join with one voice on behalf of the defenseless! We saw a strong showing of support on the first anniversary of the devastating passage of pro-abortion Proposal 3 with our first March in 2023, and we expect an even greater turnout this year as we continue to promote “Life. The Other Choice.” to women in Michigan.

Join us as we peacefully advocate for the protection of all human life from conception to natural death and stand for commonsense laws that support women, safeguard families and defend the unborn in our state.

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6) Annual Feather Party - Monday, November 17, 2025

7) Traveling Vocations Chalice

The Traveling Vocations Chalice Program helps families pray for more people to say “yes” to God’s call – especially to the priesthood and religious life. The special chalice serves as a beautiful reminder to pray that God will raise up faithful priests, sisters, and brothers for our Church.

The Church has always encouraged everyone – not just priests and sisters – to pray for vocations. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI both reminded us that the call to pray for vocations belongs to all of us!

When we pray for vocations, we are asking God to bless and guide those he is calling to follow him in a special way. Every prayer helps! Families who take the chalice home are invited to pray together each day that God will inspire and strengthen those discerning his call.

How It Works

• At Mass: At the end of Mass, Father invites a family to come forward to receive the chalice and a special blessing.

• At Home: The family takes the chalice home and places it in a special spot – perhaps on the dining table, prayer corner, or mantle.

• During the Week: Each day for two weeks, the family takes a few moments during their regular prayer time to pray for more vocations and for perseverance among those already following God’s call.

• Share Your Experience: A journal travels with the chalice. Families can write a short note or prayer about their experience before returning it.

8) Internet's Most Asked Questions about the Bible (w/ Jeff Cavins)

Why are there contradictions in the Bible? How old is the earth? When does the Bible say the rapture will happen? How old is the Bible? Why is the Bible so violent?

Jeff Cavins, Catholic evangelist, author, and Biblical scholar, answers all this and more!

9) High School Youth Group Meets on Wednesdays

10) Why Series: Why Register as a Parishioner?

Belonging to a parish is about much more than finding a place to attend Mass each Sunday. It’s about finding community, a place to plant spiritual roots, and to commit ourselves to being involved. Learn why belonging to your parish is so important in our current culture and choose to commit to your parish today!

11) Want to become Catholic? Want to be baptized? Do you need to be Confirmed? Learn More about the Catholic Church

12) 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.

13) Holy Hour on Thursdays

14) This Sunday's Readings: October 26, 2025 - The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

15) Sunday Reflections by Jeff Cavins

The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,

and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 18:14)

Reflecting on the readings for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jeff Cavins encourages us to walk in humility and remember that God is the one who justifies. The Sunday Readings are:

First Reading: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23

Second Reading: 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

Alleluia: 2 Corinthians 5:19

Gospel: Luke 18:9-14

16) Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Are You Revolving Around God—Or God Around You?

Friends, for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we are treated to the wonderful and deeply challenging parable of the Pharisee and the publican from Luke 18. We are meant to see in this deceptively simple story a basic and clarifying principle in the spiritual order—namely, that the ego is meant to revolve around God, not God around the ego. And this might not be immediately clear: Sometimes the people that look the most religious actually aren’t very religious, and the people that look a million miles from God are actually in the right spiritual space.

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.

Click the button or image below to download a PDF copy of this Sunday's Grow+Go.

18) Giving to SJA

I'm truly grateful for your support of SJA. Your support means so much. The increase in electronic giving has been tremendous. Giving electronically, whether on a one-time or recurring basis, is pretty simple. For more information on online giving, please click on the following button.

19) TALLer Tales

Preparing for a Cruise: My sister Jackie and my brother-in-law Lonnie set off this past Monday for a 4-night cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas. Their itinerary included stops at Nassau, Bahamas, and CocoCay, before returning to Port Canaveral.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, my sister Jackie is, well, directionally challenged. Our family has countless stories of Jackie getting lost, and despite having access to GPS and other navigation tools, she rarely uses them. That’s Jackie. Naturally, we were a bit concerned about how she’d manage on a cruise, especially in foreign lands far from home and far from any of us to help guide her. Plus, neither of them travels that much, so that added a level of complexity of navigating all that they had to navigate.

Planning for the trip became a family affair. A couple of months ago, I remember sitting around a computer at our mom’s condo, helping Jackie sift through excursion options and finalizing bookings. I handled all the air travel arrangements, while our sister Sandy and brother-in-law Jim took care of the cruise paperwork and even helped with last-minute packing and organizing. Our Mom and Cindy were the consonant cheerleaders that Jackie could do this. Jackie was so worried she’d mess something up and ruin the trip. We kept reminding her that the only thing she really needed to focus on was getting to places on time so she wouldn’t miss a ride or, worse, the ship! But Jackie has a Ph.D. in worrying.

At one point, Jackie turned to me at a family function and joked, “Too bad I couldn’t slap a vest on you and pretend you were my service dog or something!” I told her that at my size people would notice something was a little a miss with that plan.

On Monday morning, I drove Jackie and Lonnie to the airport for their 8:30 a.m. flight. I gave them all my last-minute instructions and even printed their boarding passes to avoid any issues with apps or electronics. I watched them drop off their bags at Delta’s Sky Cap and walk into the terminal. As they disappeared into the crowd, I made the sign of the cross and blessed them. I figured if they could survive the chaos of the airport and the first day of boarding with 5,000+ other passengers, they’d be fine for the rest of the trip.

When they landed in Orlando, we got a text saying everything went well in Detroit, except for an ornery TSA agent who wasn’t kind about answering their questions. Thankfully, a kind-hearted 19-year-old overheard the exchange, stepped in, and “adopted” Jackie and Lonnie to guide them through security and to their gate. God bless that 19-year-old for their kindness!

But, of course, the drama wasn’t over. About 30 minutes later, I got a panicky text from Jackie: they couldn’t find her luggage. Of all people having their luggage lost, it had to be Jackie! I immediately hopped onto Delta’s website to track it, but their luggage tracking system was down, thanks to the global Amazon AWS server outage that day. I called my mom, who had the Find My app on her phone to track the Air Tag I had placed in Jackie’s suitcase, but we weren’t having any luck. Disaster seemed imminent.

Thankfully, a few minutes later, Jackie texted again: the luggage finally appeared on the carousel. Crisis averted!

That evening, we had a family Zoom call, and Jackie and Lonnie seemed to be enjoying themselves. We all breathed a collective sigh of relief. This trip was either going to be smooth sailing or a comedy of errors worthy of many stories for TALLer Tales. They were now officially on their own, along with 4,998 other passengers, without their “service animal” or their 19-year-old angel. In the end, I know there will be many laughs to share about this trip! Afterall, it involves Jackie and Lonnie!

The Solemnity of All Saints: While there are many beautiful feasts and solemnities in the church’s calendar, the celebration of all the saints is one of my favorites. Because it falls on a Saturday this year (next Saturday), it is not a holy day of obligation. Nevertheless, I wanted to offer some brief reflections about this awesome day.

The Solemnity of All Saints celebrates all the saints, the known and unknown ones now in heaven. Through this great communion of saints, we help one another achieve sanctity. They, like us, were often ordinary people who answered God’s call to serve in some capacity. They had struggles. They had ups and downs. They doubted. They had dark nights of the soul. BUT they persevered in their commitment to Christ. They were sinners, like you and me, who had fallen but then had the courage, with the grace of God, to stand back up.

A few years ago, I received an email from my favorite icon store, Monastery Icons. The email wasn’t the typical sales email but contained an article entitled “7 Reasons Why the Saints are Important.” Let’s consider just seven of the many, many reasons why the saints are important in our lives.”

1: The Saints are REAL. The saints and their stories and words were not legends or some equivalent to superheroes or two-dimensional historical figures. They lived on earth and still live in the heavenly world. 2: The saints struggled with the very problems we do … and much worse. 3: The saints are our heavenly helpers. Throughout the church’s history, the faithful have called upon the saints to respond to our prayers, to bless, protect, heal, and sanctify us. As the saints themselves turned to saints to help them on their journey on earth, we should call upon the saints to help us on our earthly journey. 4: The message of the saints’ lives and teachings is timeless and timely. While we may never face a demanding emperor or torturer, the supernatural courage and heroic examples of the saints who had to face their own challenges should inspire us as we face the challenges and persecutions of our day. 5: The words and actions of the saints are a sure guide and authority on how we should live. With material on FORMED, YouTube, and other places on the web, it’s easy to learn about the saints, their challenges, and their heroic virtues. 6: The saints are the best role models for sanctity. “If we make the remembrance of the saints our constant companion and study, we will find their example becoming the measure for our own behavior. You become what you contemplate….” 7: Make friends with the saints, and they will be with us and help us. “Christian tradition clearly shows us the way to open a window into heaven. If we place the icons and images of the saints in our home and church, honor and pray to them (especially on their feast days), and remember to always turn to them for guidance and help in every need, however great or small, we can experience for ourselves their blessed protection, healing, and intercession.”

Saints of God, PRAY FOR US!

Enjoy the week. Know of my prayers.

In Christ,

gmb@sjascs.org

20) Voiland's View

For our earthly existence and our spiritual lives to have true meaning, there comes a point when we simply have to ‘give up’ to the Lord. We cannot persist, day in and day out, contending with God, if we expect our faith to grow. Holy Scripture says that the Lord blesses those who do not test him, constantly pushing . . . not so much rejecting God, but constantly questioning him and demanding that he prove himself to us.

In such a relationship, there won’t be much room for growth. Any growth that might come of a relationship like this would be from God merely trying to break through the hard shell of our human willfulness. For us and God to relate, we need to acknowledge who he is and what he has been trying to show us humans since the beginning of history. Since the beginning, there has been a lot of evidence of God working in our world. Through natural and supernatural means, God has revealed himself in ways which we are capable of perceiving with the astounding minds he has created within us. Yet, if we keep throwing worldly arguments against him, essentially looking for excuses to not believe in him, he's not going to force belief on us.

We could stand here telling the Lord, “Yeah, I want to believe in you. I really want to trust in you. But show me. Prove it to me.” Then, everything that he gives us, we test or qualify in some way, reconfiguring it into an argument. In which case, our relationship with God is not going to bear much fruit. God is not going to actively help us grow together with him when we constantly push against him.

It's like any relationship we have. Take for example, parents and their offspring: as children grow and come into their own, they start pulling away to establish their own identities. Often, parents are the only ones who want to remain connected. But if our relationships are healthy with our parents, we come back to them. There is give and take again. Children can realize that their parents actually do know something and that kids actually don't know everything. There is a submission that, without fully knowing where a relationship might go, we can trust that there's something substantial to build on. If there is no return to mutual sharing in trust, relationships fizzle out.

Similarly, in marriage, when a man and a woman meet, and they discover something good in each other beyond physical attraction, there comes a point when they stop testing each other and say, “I want to give myself to you. I want to marry myself to you. I want our relationship to become what it's going to become and what it can become.” It's the same thing with our relationship with God.

When Jesus married the Church, he married us. He asks us to say back to him, “I see love in you; I see indications that you care for me; now I want to care for you; I'm going to not continually push against this relationship.” When a husband and a wife get married, once they make their permanent vows to each other, they don’t keep questioning. “Oh, does he really love me? Oh, does she really love me?” The vows given at wedding time profess true love. In a relationship with God, that same profession should be there as well. In true love, we want God to blossom in our lives because we've given ourselves to him.

When we place ourselves in opposition to God, as if he's an adversary that needs to prove himself over and over, our relationship with God will never blossom because we simply don’t trust him. If we don't trust someone, and if that someone knows it, he or she will never trust us. Conversely, when we trust God, when we let him see who we are, when we make a commitment, when we acknowledge the beauty of his having created us, when we acknowledge the beauty of the gifts that we've received from him, the blessings that he has given us, the ability to get through struggles and pain, and when we acknowledge that this is all through him and say, “Thank you, Lord! Do whatever else you need to do with me,” he will continue to entrust himself to us. When we trust him, he trusts us with more.

When we trust God, we are admittedly sticking our necks out. We don’t have a hundred percent assurance of how things are going to work out. But we don’t have full assurance of how anything is going to work out in life. We might think we do, but a rational soul knows otherwise. Yet, even if we take the risk of trusting God, we understandably have concerns about getting burned in the deal. We may have trusted people in our lives, whom we genuinely thought loved us, in whom we invested our deepest trust, and we got burned – BAD! Could God be like this? Many people feel that they have done just such a thing. They put their trust in God, and he let them down. It is necessary for us to revisit such letdowns.

When we feel like God has burned us, we have to turn back and re-examine those times. We reject God because we decide that he has mistreated us in some way, or he hasn't treated us as we expected. Our expectations need to be tuned-up so we can start trusting again. We expect God to be human because we are human. We take our human experience, we attribute it to God, then we wall God off for not being human enough, for not being sensitive enough to our lowly plight. We won’t allow ourselves to trust him because of difficulties that we had in our experience with a father, with a mother, a spouse, a friend. We won't trust God because of a failed human relationship. We say, “Well, I have trusted him, and he's let me down.” Well, maybe not. Maybe we are trusting our image of God and not God our Father. And maybe we won’t admit that we are truly free – that God does not pull our strings as if we were puppets.

It is good for us to rethink the occasions when we put God to the test. God is a person, three Persons, to be exact. He is not a machine. God has feelings. He cares. He thinks. He relates to us. He also happens to be infinitely beyond our comprehension. But that doesn’t mean we should not treat him respectfully and lovingly. God cannot work well with someone who doesn’t love him. That wouldn’t make any sense.

Those hard places where we might try to trust God once again may be the richest places of all to see the Lord bear fruit in our lives. Our despair, or that difficulty that we have with him as a Father and as someone who says he loves us, can be healed if we try giving ourselves to him one more time. He wants us to recognize him, recognize his love, and then to accept it and to allow it to grow with him. This is important. He gives us all these graces: Scripture, the Church, the relationships that we have in our families, the love that we receive, a parish family we call home. We have all these connections where God says, “I'm revealing myself to you. Will you trust this? Will you give yourself to this?”

Fr. Bob

rvoiland@sjascs.org

21) Ascension Presents: Father Mike Schmitz

Your Life

As we discover the lives of the saints, it seems they endured quite a bit of suffering before receiving their eternal reward. It begs the question: Is it worth it?

Fr. Mike reminds us that in this life, we will have suffering. The question is not, can you avoid suffering by avoiding Jesus? The question is, can your suffering be transformed by embracing Jesus?

22) Words on the Word: October 26, 2025 - Changes at the Top

Ah, yes, the executive life!

Company car, corner office, power. All the perks and perquisites. All the bells and whistles.

Except when that’s no longer the case.

Local media reported a few weeks ago on changes being made in the executive ranks at Stellantis. According to a story in The Detroit News, the still-new CEO at the automaker (he took over in June) “shook up his leadership team … (as he) appointed new heads of Europe and South America, a new global manufacturing chief, and made several other personnel moves.”

The story went on to describe who the various new executives were, and mentioned at least one executive who “is departing the company ‘to pursue new career endeavors…’”

Such is life at the top, one supposes. And, for that matter, it’s work life for most folks, who, over the course of many years, likely encounter ups and downs, changes both anticipated and unanticipated, highs and lows.

The hope for the people involved in this particular story, at Stellantis – and for all of us – is that we don’t get so comfortable with our work circumstances that we lose sight of what’s really important in life, our relationship with Jesus and with others.

After all, Jesus reminds us in today’s gospel passage from St. Luke, “whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Most important, in other words, is that, regardless of how much money we make or how many people report to us, we keep our eyes on the prize that awaits us, so that, like St. Paul in today’s second reading passage from 2 Timothy, we will be proud of our choices when the time comes to make an accounting, and, like him, we might be able to say, “I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.”

© 2025 Words on the Word

23) This WEEK on FORMED:

Our parish has a subscription to FORMED, a premier online platform filled with over 4,000 Catholic studies, movies, audio dramas, talks, e-books, and even cartoons for our children. FORMED has content from over 60 apostolates, including Augustine Institute, Ignatius Press, and the Knights of Columbus, with material that is professionally produced, engaging, and solid in its catechism. Best of all, this material is free to you because of our parish subscription.

You have easy access to all of the material on FORMED to support your own faith journey and that of your family members.

You can enjoy FORMED on your computer or on your television with an inexpensive Roku device or Apple TV. You can even listen on your phone as you commute to work or do chores. 

To gain access to all of FORMED’s content, follow these simple steps:

• Go to https://signup.formed.org/ 
• Enter our parish’s zip code 48080 or enter St. Joan of Arc
• Enter your name and your email address

That’s it! You’re in. Now you can get the free FORMED app for your phone by searching FORMED Catholic in your app store.



24) 52 Stories: Good News from Spirit Juice Studios

Prepare to be Inspired

Spirit Juice Studios is blessed to work with countless Catholic organizations, dioceses, parishes, and schools. We get to help them tell their powerful stories about all the good stuff that is happening within the Church. Sign up for 52 Stories so we can share them with you! You’ll meet the unsung heroes of the Catholic Church, discover the stories of holy women and men around the world, and witness miraculous moments of God’s grace in everyday life.

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!

St Joseph: Our Spiritual Father

This powerful documentary, consisting of six stories, explores St. Joseph’s life and lasting influence. Through beautiful reenactments of St. Joseph’s life, footage of various artwork, and interviews with scholars and authors, this film presents Joseph of Nazareth in a way that will have a lasting influence on those who wish to know better the man who was the guardian of the Son of God.

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) Mass Intentions for the Week:

Monday, October 27, 2025, Weekday (Green)

7:00 am: Mary Ellen Kutschke

Tuesday, October 28, 2025, Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles (Red)

7:00 am: Hugo Calisi

Wednesday, October 29, 2025, Weekday (Green)

7:00 am: Richard Johns

6:00 pm: Julian Ross

Thursday, October 30, 2025, Weekday (Green)

7:00 am: Carolyn Baldwin

Friday, October 31, 2025, Weekday (Green)

7:00 am: Sr. Marie Houle, O.P.; Samson DeLeon

Saturday, November 1, 2025, Vigil for The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (White)

4:00 pm: Bonnie Batche, George Rupinski, Ronald Fencyk, Marie Stahl, Stephen & Nancy Fattore, Beverly LaMountain, Mary Blind, Douglas Rouls, Michael Francis, Patty Chieski, Special Intentions for the Rogier & Detloff Families, for the living and deceased members of the J. Champine Family, for the Thomas Family, Joan Kowalewski, Sam Manalo, Sam Baur and Prayerful Appreciation for the work of the Priests and Staff of SJA

6:00 pm: Pam Smith

Sunday, November 2, 2025, The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (White)

8:00 am: The Intentions of SJA Parishioners

10:00 am: Ron Lagodna

12:00 pm: Hugo Calisi, Antonietta Mazzella, Aniello Mazzella, Bianca Calisi, Antonio Calisi, Sr. Silveria Conte, Sam Promesso, Rose Fracassa, Richard Adamcik, Pamela Smith, and Special Intentions for the Rogier & Detloff Families, Laurie Ruda, and Sam Baur

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

This week's LIVE Stream

Schedule at St. Joan of Arc:

Monday (October 27)

7:00 AM - Mass

10:00 AM - Funeral for Sharon Krapp (Read Obituary HERE)

Tuesday (October 28):

7:00 AM - Mass

Wednesday (October 29):

7:00 AM - Mass

10:00 AM - Funeral for Nancy Sciturro

6:00 PM - Mass

Thursday (October 30):

7:00 AM - Mass

7:00 PM - Holy Hour



Friday (October 31):

7:00 AM - Mass

Saturday (November 1):

10:00 AM - Funeral for Peter Thomas (Read Obituary HERE)

12:30 PM - Baptism of Isla Raine Hermes

1:30 PM - Baptism of Darla J. McClain

2:3 PM - Baptism of Michael Anthony Czarnecki

4:00 PM - Mass

6:00 PM - Mass

Sunday (November 2):

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.

28) SJA's Latest Parish Bulletin

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