Throughout the world, Catholics will be celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday, which is April 7, this year. It will be celebrated at St. Paul from 2-4 p.m. It is sponsored by our CAFÉ Committee, with representation from St. Paul the Apostle and Nativity of the Lord Parishes. The celebration will include Eucharistic Adoration, Sacrament of Reconciliation, music, and readings about St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy message. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be sung at 3 p.m. Everyone is invited. Please sign up on the sheets in the vestibules of both churches for the potluck which will follow the service
Several interesting meetings and events are coming up in our parish, in the Saginaw Diocese, or the Lansing Diocese you may be interested in!
–Safe Environment Facilitated Training – VIRTUS Protecting God’s Children Cost $0 Tue, 2/27/2024 at 2:00pm Location: Center for Ministry in Saginaw, MI 48603 Registration Link: https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_list2.cfm?theme=0
–St. Paul CCW will meet Tues., Feb. 27, 2:00 p.m., in Room 2 of the parish hall.
–Bishop Gruss will celebrate a First Friday Mass on March 2, at 11am at the Saginaw Cathedral (615 Hoyt Ave). It will be followed by a meatless lunch, and a talk. Folks can register here.
–Spring Fling Dinner Dance and Fundraiser Our parish dinner/dancewill be held on April 13. We will host an open meeting on Feb. 28 at 6:45pm in the Ithaca Hall for anybody interested in volunteering. Our team has worked to put volunteer job descriptions together for anybody who may want to help.
Some pictures from the Catholic Women’s Conference in Lansing on October 16, 2021
Here are the descriptions for the images below:
1. This year the Lansing Catholic Women’s Conference was renamed the Michigan Catholic Women’s Conference and ladies were invited from all Michigan dioceses. It was held Saturday, October , 2021 at the Lansing Center.
2. Our gracious and delightful Master of Ceremonies was Erin Looby-Carlson. Erin is the Director of Communications for our Saginaw Diocese.
3. Nationally known, Sheri Wohlfert was one of our speakers. Sheri lives on a farm in Westphalia (Lansing Diocese) with her family. We have been so blessed that she has spoken at St. Martin and St. Paul as part of our past CAFE programs. Anyone who has ever heard Sheri has delighted in her humor and her deep faith.
4. Fr. Adam Maher of our Saginaw Diocese and these ladies presented a skit in which all found their negative emotions changed to positive emotions through God’s blessings.
5. This is a view of the conference center and the large crowd in attendance. Kelly Wahlquist is the speaker at the moment. She was a collaborator with Jeff Cavins in preparing the Bible Timeline which we will be reading in Lent, 2022
6. Fr. Adam Maher places the monstrance on the altar in preparation for Eucharistic Adoration.
7. Fr. Joe Krupp was another outstanding speaker. Many of you are familiar with his articles in Faith Magazine.
8. Mass is about to begin. Mass was concelebrated by Bishop Earl Boyea of the Lansing Diocese and our own Bishop Robert Gruss of our Saginaw Diocese.
