WELCOME TO

TERRA SANCTA MINISTRIES

“To Jesus with Mary.”

Schedule

Days Open: Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

 

Hours of Operation: Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays: 10:30 am – 2:30 pm.

Shrine

All are welcome to visit one of Michigan’s Marian shrines—a truly holy place where God is adored, the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored, and the Holy Spirit is experienced. We are eager to see you!

Pilgrimages

We are all invited to the lifelong pilgrimage to Heaven. Come visit us on a local pilgrimage, or join us to walk in the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land.

Franciscans

As a Franciscan ministry, we are in the spiritual tradition within the Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi who renewed Christians, the “living stones,” by “building” them up in the Holy Spirit with a more radical living of Jesus Christ’s Gospel

Father Alex

Franciscan Friar and priest, he loves to share God’s word and wisdom with you so we can all “be conformed to the image of [God’s] Son.” (Romans 8:29)

Mary Founded Our Shrine & Pilgrimage Orientation Meeting

On June 17, 1947, the Blessed Virgin Mary founded our Shrine by speaking to Fr. Jarzembowski at the Marian Congress in Ottawa, Canada, to start a shrine in little Pontiac.  Within one year, on June 20, 1948, an Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit blessed the Shrine as it...