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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Our Lady of the Cape Returns from Canada!

Nov 11, 2024

November 11, 2024 Dear Friends, This Tuesday and Wednesday, November 12-13, at St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400 South Blvd. W., Pontiac, MI 48341), the official 1947 National Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape, Queen of...

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...