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Spring Retreat: March 19-21st "Finding God's Will: Seeing Black and White in a World of Grays"

5 March 2010 - 5:53pm — jpriest

  Retreat opportunity coming up this month!  March 19th-21st is the weekend of the retreat, so mark your Calenders.  

This will be an excellent chance to take a break from our busy lives and evaluate where we are in our relationship with Christ.  During Lent this is a great way to discern how God is calling us to purify our relationships with him. 


Here is some more info about the retreat:

Name of retreat: Finding God's Will: Seeing Black and White in a World of Grays 

Start time: 6:30 pm in Alma, MI  [March 19]
 
End time: by noon on Sunday [March 21]
 

Cost: $25 

Held at:  The Religious Sisters of Mercy in Alma, MI

*All meals provided but please eat Dinner on Friday before arriving*

If you are interested please email Jeremy at:

World Youth Day Pilgrimage 2011: Madrid, Spain

23 February 2010 - 4:21pm — joyce

St. Mary’s will join 1,000,000 Catholic young adults from around the world in Madrid, 15-21 August 2011, to celebrate faith and grow in our love of Christ.  Pope Benedict will meet with young adults that week, and celebrate a final Papal Mass on the 21st with an estimated 2,000,000 people.  Our pilgrimage will go 2-22 August. 

Preparations for our pilgrimage begin this summer.  Sign up now to get on an email information list by contacting Fr. Will at will.prospero@stmarycmu.org  Brochures with details and a registration form can be sent to you or are in our main entries.  Contact Joyce@stmarycmu.org.  For more information about World Youth Day see www.madridwyd2011.com

Download Our Brochure and Registration Form Here.

 

 

For Pilgrim Fundraising:

Uncommonstock Explanation  

Uncommonstock Certificates  

What Are You "Giving Up" For Lent?

24 February 2010 - 12:31am — jpriest

Let’s go beyond the basics here and go straight to the heart: what do I need to let go of in order to grow closer to God?

Fasting
In his Lenten Message Pope Benedict writes, “Since all of us are weighed down by sin and its consequences, fasting is proposed to us as an instrument to restore friendship with God.”
Indeed, fasting has been a part of human life from the very beginning when God told Adam, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Gen. 2:16-17). So it was, writes St. Basil, that “‘fasting was ordained in Paradise’ ‘You shall not eat is a law of fasting and abstinence’” (Benedict XVI, Lenten Message).
 
 “True fasting” is oriented toward doing “the will of the Heavenly Father, who ‘sees in secret, and will reward you’ (Mt. 6:18)…The true fast is thus directed to eating the ‘true food,’ which is to do the Father’s will (cf. Jn. 4:34). If, therefore, Adam disobeyed the Lord’s command ‘of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,’ the believer, through fasting, intends to submit himself humbly to God, trusting in His goodness and mercy.”

The Sacred Heart of Jesus Program

Enthrone the Sacred Heart of Jesus in your room!   C'mon, everybody's doing it!  Participate in a centuries old devotion to the Heart of Jesus.  This is an example of a family enthroning an image of the Sacred Heart in their home. 

Simply sign up for your image of choice after Masses at St. Mary's beginning in the Fall or send us an e-mail.  Fr. Will will be in touch with you about setting up a time. 

Never heard of Jesus' Sacred Heart?  Check it out here.

 

 

   
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