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...

Prayer for the Election

October 22, 2024 Dear Friends, On this feast of St. Pope John Paul II—2 weeks from Election Day—we ask his intercession to help us do what we can to promote a “culture of life” over (as he coined it) the “culture of death.” St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. West,...

Mass for the Unborn and Prayer for the Election

October 14, 2024 Dear Friends, Tonight, October 14, at Transfiguration Parish (25225 Code Rd., Southfield, MI 48033) I will preside at a Holy Hour & Mass for the Unborn, starting at 7:00 pm.  Afterwards, there will be a reception and pro-life literature and...

Rosary Activities & Sealing the Parking Lot

October 11, 2024 Dear Friends, Tomorrow, Saturday, October 12, is our Rosary Rally.  It will take place BEFORE Mass in front of St. Joseph Chapel (400 South Blvd. West, Pontiac, MI 48341). To continue Rosary activities in this month of the Rosary, I will preach on the...