Announcements

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Last Day We’re Open This Year

December 20, 2024 Dear Friends, Tomorrow, December 21, is the first day of winter and the last day we’re open in 2024.  Tomorrow’s “O Antiphon,” O Oriens (“O Radiant Dawn”), reminds us Christ is our coming Light.  Thank you for helping our little shrine, St. Joseph...
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Last Week We’re Open This Year

December 13, 2024 Dear Friends, Tomorrow begins the last week we are open this year.  Today is the Memorial of St. Lucy.  May she intercede for all with eye ailments or other vision issues. Since St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400...
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Advent, Jubilee Year 2025 & First Wednesday, First Friday & First Saturday

December 3, 2024 Dear Friends, Happy Advent!  This new holy liturgical season began with some good news that St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400 South Blvd. West, Pontiac, MI 48341) has been chosen by Archbishop Vigneron as an...
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First Saturday and More

May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024 Dear Friends, On today’s Feast of the Visitation we look forward to tomorrow’s First Saturday, June 1, when we honor Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. June is the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Whom we will honor by placing our renovated antique Sacred...

Conflicts in the Middle East from a Christian Perspective

May 23, 2024

May 23, 2024 Dear Friends, Terra Sancta Ministries began as a Franciscan Holy Land ministry to support the Mother Church of Jerusalem.  We went (and still do) by the name “Terra Sancta Pilgrimages.”  As Pope Benedict XVI once said, the Holy Land is the spiritual...

Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces & our May Schedule

May 7, 2024

May 7, 2024 Dear Friends, The handout, “Chronology of the End Times,” is still available upon request. This Wednesday, May 8, at St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. W., Pontiac, MI 48341) we will celebrate the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All...