Announcements

Please follow this page for updates, schedule changes and information from Fr. Alex. 

CLOSED & Pilgrimage Orientation Meeting

The Shrine will close AFTER tomorrow for a summer break: i.e., from July 12-31.  So “Keep Cool with Christ” as our outdoor signs says! I can still accept Mass Intentions while we are closed.  (I offer Mass every day—often a private one.)  Mass Intentions can be given...
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Pilgrimage Orientation Meeting

This year, I will be leading a Catholic Pilgrimage to the Holy Land on October 12-22. The Orientation Meeting is this Saturday, July 11, 2:00-4:00 pm at St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. W., Pontiac, MI 48341) in the Lower Level. Enter through the front iron doors of...
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Independence Day

Dear Friends, We now have a flier (IT IS ATTACHED and is emailable or hard copy) for our October 12-22 Holy Land Pilgrimage that you may request in anticipation of the July 11 (Saturday) 2:00 pm mandatory Pilgrimage Orientation Meeting at St. Joseph Chapel (400 South...
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2 New Saints & Jubilee Article about the Shrine

Sep 2, 2025

We will have 2 new saints on Sunday as two beatified young Italian men—Pier Giorgio Frassati & Carlo Acutis—will be canonized on September 7.  Carlo will be the first millennial saint.  All this week will make available free blessed holy cards of Pier Giorgio...

Coming Events

Aug 28, 2025

On this Memorial of St. Augustine whose charism and spirit Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, lives, we are reminded that wisdom from God should guide our lives. COMING EVENTS and schedule changes are the following at St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the...

The Coronation of Our Lady and Praying & Fasting for Peace

Aug 21, 2025

On this Memorial of Pope Saint Pius X, who fought strenuously against Modernism (making the Catholic Faith reflect the changing fashions of culture), and who died 3 weeks after WWI began, we are asked by our current Pope, Pope Leo XIV, to commemorate tomorrow’s...