St.Paul & St.Joseph

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.

From the Bishop

Based on the current circumstances and with a profound desire to protect the health and well-being of all, Bishop Boyea has discerned that the current suspension of all public Masses and the liturgical directives that he established on March 17, 2020, should remain in place through April 30, 2020.
 
These determinations were made based upon the most recent directives and guidelines from government officials and health care experts to extend the time period for social distancing in a continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. The decision to prolong the suspension of public Masses was not made lightly, but out of a fervent desire to protect the health and well-being of clergy, religious, and laity, but especially the most vulnerable.
 
In this time of suffering and uncertainty, Bishop Boyea has called “all Catholics and, indeed, all people within the Diocese of Lansing” to prayer, fasting, and works of mercy, imploring the Lord to bring an end to this pandemic. As we unite under the “divine mandate to fast and pray when threatened by the powers of darkness (cf. Mt 17:21),” let us entrust ourselves to the Lord, who is rich in mercy.
 
Many have inquired regarding how this will impact the “Easter duty” of Catholics to “receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season” and the obligation to “confess your sins at least once a year” (CCC 2042). While the basic requirement of the Church is for all Catholics to “confess…grave sins at least once a year” (CIC 989), it is not essential that this takes place during Lent. And, while the “Easter duty” of receiving the Holy Eucharist should be done during the Easter season, the Code of Canon Law specifies that “for a just cause” this obligation can be fulfilled “at another time during the year” (CIC 920, §2). Protecting the health and well-being of the most vulnerable in a time of global pandemic is certainly such a just cause.
 
For up-to-date information about the Diocese of Lansing’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit www.dioceseoflansing.org/coronavirus. 

Our priests will continue to offer daily private Masses. Please know that all of you are in their prayers.  Many of these daily Masses have intentions applied to them and those will be honored.

You may watch daily Mass here on our website, and there are many other parishes in our diocese that are live streaming their Masses, you can find information on the Diocese of Lansing Website.

We ask you to continue to contribute to our Sunday offertory as you are able.  Online giving is now available you can click on the donate button above and you can give by Electronic Funds Transfer or credit card.   Envelopes can be mailed to the parish office.  Please contact our parish office 989-723-4277 ext. 1102  if you have any questions.

Many in our parish fall into the high-risk or vulnerable groups, additionally, we have email addresses for about 1/3 of our parish families. That means many of our parish members are not on-line. Please take some time to reach out to parish members you may know and let them know of our Mass cancelations and check in on them, offer to pray with them.

Each Sunday, the Diocese of Lansing airs the televised Outreach Mass. The Mass airs at 6:00 AM and 10:00 AM on WLAJ Lansing TV53, and at 10:00 AM on WBSF-TV Flint Channel 46 (CW Network).  Please contact your local cable provider for channel information.