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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Prayer for the Election

Nov 2, 2024

November 3, 2024 Dear Friends, As Catholics and as Americans we have a moral obligation to vote.  We also have a moral obligation to be informed about the candidates and their positions on issues. Prayer for the Election at St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. West,...

All Saints’ Day & All Souls’ Day

Oct 31, 2024

October 31, 2024 Dear Friends, On this Halloween Day—the Eve of the Hallowed (Holy) Ones—let’s call upon the saints to help us to Heaven: “since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and...

Prayer for the Election

Oct 28, 2024

October 28, 2024 Dear Friends, On this feast of Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles, we ask their intercession for our Church, our civilization and our country.  St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. West, Pontiac, MI 48341) will NOT BE OPEN this Wednesday evening, October...