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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Confraternity

Jul 29, 2024

July 29, 2024 Dear Friends, First Friday and First Saturday fall this week.  On First Friday we will emphasize reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to whom France—which is hosting the Olympics—is consecrated.  We will do this for the blasphemous depiction of the...

St. Bonaventure and Evenings of Reparation & Life

Jul 15, 2024

July 15, 2024 Dear Friends, TODAY is the Feast of St. Bonaventure, the great Franciscan theologian called the “Seraphic Doctor,” whom we will commemorate at our Mass tonight for our Evening of Reparation (Third Monday) at St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the...

Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape Visit

Jul 8, 2024

July 8, 2024 Dear Friends, A once-in-a-lifetime event is taking place this week, July 12-13 (Friday & Saturday), at St. Joseph Chapel & the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (400 South Blvd. W., Pontiac, MI 48341): the visit of the official 1947 National...