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...

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...

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...

January 1: Holy Day of Mary, Mother of God

January 1, 2024 Dear Friends, Happy—and Holy—New Year!  May today’s Solemnity of Mary, Mary of God help you start the new year with our Blessed Mother helping you to follow Jesus Christ, our Divine Savior, more faithfully and fervently. Remember, He is technically not...

January 1: Holy Day of Mary, Mother of God

December 27, 2023 Dear Friends, St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400 South Blvd. West, Pontiac, MI 48341) will re-open January 1 (see below).  In our verbal Closing Announcements at the December Masses before Christmas, it was...

Attack on Gaza Catholics, This Week and Jan. 1.

December 18, 2023 Dear Friends, Sadly, evil is perpetuated on both sides of the war in the Holy Land.  Two Catholics, a mother and her daughter, were murdered—yes, that is what it is (with Pope Francis and the U.S. Bishops rightly condemning it)—at the Catholic Church...