Announcements

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Holy Week & Upcoming April Events

April 15, 2025 Dear Friends, In this most holy time, we at Terra Sancta Ministries wish you a holy Holy Week and a Happy Easter. We will be open tomorrow, Wednesday of Holy Week, with our normal schedule.  We will closed Holy Thursday and Good Friday, We will be be...

Holy Week & Upcoming April Events

April 8, 2025 Dear Friends, This Friday, April 11, will be our last Stations of the Cross (held after Mass).  We will pray those of St. Alphonsus Liguori.  We will be OPEN for Wednesday of Holy Week (April 16).  We will be closed on Holy Thursday (normally Third...

10th Anniversary of Purchasing the Shrine

As the Solemnity of the Annunciation comes upon us tomorrow, we give thanks to Almighty God for the 10th Anniversary of our (Terra Sancta Ministries’) purchase of the Shrine property from the Archdiocese of Detroit back on March 25, 2015. The Blessed Mother wanted her...

The First Day of the New Year

December 30, 2024 Dear Friends, As 2024 ends, we wish you a Happy New Year.  We invite you to begin your new year on Wednesday, January 1 at St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400 South Blvd. W., Pontiac, MI 48341) honoring our Blessed...

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...