St.Paul & St.Joseph

There will be no longer be a need to sign up for weekend Masses, we will still be limiting capacity and when the capacity is reached the doors will be locked. All other guidelines for attending Mass are still in effect. The Mass schedule will be Saturday 4:00pm at St. Joseph, and Sunday 8:00am & 11:00am at St. Paul and 9:30am at St. Joseph until further notice.

We are limited to 35% capacity of our worship space. Please be aware of these preliminary items:

• The general dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation remains in place for all persons in the Diocese of Lansing until September 6. 
•  Anyone attending Mass does so at their own risk. Vulnerable, at-risk, and otherwise concerned persons should remain at home.

Guidelines for signing up and attending Mass:

•  Ensure that you are not ill. Any persons who are ill, elderly or immunocompromised should remain home.
• The doors will be open 15 minutes before Mass. The NORTH DOORS coming from the main parking lot at St. Joseph and the  EAST DOORS ONLY at St. Paul will be open and once capacity is reached the church doors will be locked. Please do not knock on the door or try to get in if you are late.
• You should not plan to leave during Mass except in the event of an emergency. 
• . Please wear a mask to Mass, you can remove the mask prior to receiving communion.
• Sit only in the designated pews at the designated spots. Do not take down rope or tape from the pews. The spots will be clearly marked with tape attached to the pews. Retain a distance of 6 feet between you and any other person unless they are in your household.
•  When you enter the Communion line maintain a distance of 6 feet between you and the persons in front of and behind you. Move slowly and carefully to execute this correctly. At this time, for health reasons, you can only receive communion in the hand.
• Approach the priest one at a time.
• Return to your pew in an orderly fashion and sit in the exact same place you were seated before.
• At the end of Mass please exit the church immediately so as to allow for proper sanitation. Please maintain physical distancing as you do.

Oh good and gracious God, We praise you and thank you for the gift of St. Paul Catholic School where the message of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection is proclaimed. It is a sacred privilege to prepare each child to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Listen to our prayers as we ask you, Lord, to increase our enrollment of students so they can benefit from a Catholic education, where Christ’s love abounds; and that our school grows in nurturing the souls and forms the minds of its students for generations to come.
We ask these blessings in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen

For every five times, you pray the prayer above, fill out an electronic form that can be found by clicking here or by the cross in St. Paul Church or by clicking here.  Place it in the basket by the cross. For every five prayers said a stone will be added to the cross and we will watch as our prayers grow!
 

The diocesan finance office has engaged Lighthouse Services to provide an anonymous ethics and compliance hotline for all employees of the juridic persons of the Diocese of Lansing.  This hotline allows for an appropriate method to report fraud, unlawful, unethical and other types of improper behavior at it relates to temporal administration of juridic persons in the Diocese of Lansing.

Click here to access the Financial Misconduct Hotline Policy and the Lighthouse Services Incident Report Website.