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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Fourth of July and First Wednesday, Friday & Saturday

Jun 30, 2026

Tomorrow, July 1, is First Wednesday.  We will have St. Joseph Devotions after Mass.  Since it is the feastday of St. Junipero Serra, during Mass we will honor our saint of the day.  He is a fellow Franciscan and “Father of the California Missions” who was canonized...

Mary Founded Our Shrine & Pilgrimage Orientation Meeting

Jun 27, 2026

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...

18th Anniversary of Terra Sancta Ministries

Jun 23, 2026

Terra Sancta Pilgrimages was “born” on June 24, 2008 on the Birth of St. John the Baptist.  (Once we bought the shrine in 2015, we began to go by “Terra Sancta Ministries.”)  A Vigil Mass for this feast may be celebrated this evening.  Tomorrow will be the 18th...