St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen Lenten Lunch Project has been suspended for the final three weeks. Due to the current climate and coronavirus conditions, we will not hold the last three food collections. There will not be any more Sunday food collections. I greatly appreciate the great lengths you went to honor your commitment. I am very grateful for your loyalty to this program. We will work with St. Leo’s over the next three weeks to help them on Tuesdays, as needed. I imagine they will also evaluate how they can safely deliver services to their guests. If you have non-perishable or frozen items that you have already bought or cooked and would like to drop off at the Parish Office for me to deliver, please contact me.

During these days of Lent that finds each of us in difficult and different situations than we are familiar with, what are you as a family doing to celebrate your faith? Lots of ideas have been floating around for academic input, but I have not seen a lot for increasing our faith during this Lent when many of us are more confined to home.

As we continue to adapt to the evolving situation, I want to let you know that I am still here, thinking about you, praying for you all, and how we as a Pastoral Team can best support our parish community at this time. I hope you are doing well as we collectively attempt to understand and reverse the rise of the COVID-19 Virus that is sweeping across the world. Our government and Church leaders are imposing many restrictions to minimize as much as possible the spread of the virus. In an unprecedented move the Archdiocese of Detroit, has suspended the celebration of public Masses until April 6th. I continue to say the daily Mass and remember the intention for the day in the Rectory Chapel. Although we cannot celebrate the Mass as a parish...

Life seems to change so quickly. One day we are in charge of everything, our families, career, social activities and then we blink and everything has changed. The kids are off to college, married and having children of their own, we are old enough to retire and “enjoy” our new independence, but something just doesn’t seem to feel right. As we age many changes occur, sometimes the changes are not what we were expecting. Feeling anxious or unsettled may be a new experience.

Have you ever picked up and read the orange card in the envelope holder in the pew at church? It provides a glimpse of what the Stephen Ministry is about. Put simply, if you are going through a difficult time, whatever it may be A Stephen Minister will walk that journey with you. Not to “fix” whatever it is, but to support you as you work through it. A Stephen Minister...