April 19, 2025
Dear Friends,
Happy Easter! As the Eastern Church says, “Christ is risen! Christ is truly risen!”
We have FREE copies from the Archdiocese of Detroit of the “Pilgrimage Passport” for this Jubilee Year. Copies are limited. It lists each Jubilee location with a graphic, its address and journal space for each site and other sites too. There are limited copies.
Tonight, Easter Monday, we will be have our Third Monday Evening of Reparation. Doors open at 6:30 pm with Eucharistic Exposition and the availability for Confession, 7:00 pm Holy Hour and Mass to follow.
Also, we will be open this Easter Week on all our normal days: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
On Divine Mercy Sunday, we will sell the book Spiritual Warfare and Divine Mercy: the Weapon for Our Times by Fr. Ken Geraci, CPM.
The schedule for Divine Mercy Sunday is below. We are excited that the Mother Superior of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, coming from all the way from Massachusetts, will be the speaker this year. Divine Mercy is their charism, so to have such a speaker is a gift from St. Faustina herself!
- (10:30 am) Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
- (12:00 pm) Talk: “Transformed by Love” by Sr. Mary Claire, ISMM (Mother Superior of the
- Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy)
- (12:30 pm) Rosary
- (1:00 pm) Holy Mass: Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM & Fr. Joe Lang
- (2:15 pm) Exposition & Confessions: followed by the relic of St. Faustina: Veneration & Blessing
- (3:00 pm) Hour of Mercy: Chaplet of Divine Mercy & Eucharistic Benediction
The parish mission I am leading will be at St. John Fisher Chapel University Parish (3665 E. Walton Blvd, Auburn Hills, MI 48326—near Oakland University). The talks are the following:
- Sunday, April 27: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “The Master of Mercy: The Meaning of Divine Mercy”
- Monday, April 28: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “Abundant Insufficiency: Jesus’ Miraculous Manna”
- Tuesday, April 29: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “The Bathing of Souls: Jesus’ Ongoing Mercy in Confession”; 7:30 pm Confessions
May the Risen Lord Jesus Christ guide you in all your activity!
To communicate with me, please email me directly at [email protected] or call/text me at (313) 727-9784. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!
In the Poor and Crucified Christ,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries