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On the feast of Divine Mercy, the devotion to Divine Mercy is considered, along with a powerful testimonial and practical tips for growing in mercy.

As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, we consider the essence of our lives as disciples who share in the very divine life of the resurrected Jesus.

At a healing service hosted by Our Lady of Hope Parsh, the power of Jesus to heal and the amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit in these days of The New Evangelization is recounted, celebrated and INVITED!

At a Laetare ("Rejoice!") Lenten praise fest at St. Alfred's in Taylor, we consider living the reality Jesus points us to in John 15:11, "I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete."

In the Transfiguration, the divinity of Jesus shown forth brightly!  By God's grace, our living participatino in the life of God's love is meant to shine His light brightly in this world...

In the temptation in the desert (Luke 4), Jesus gives us a blueprint to follow for victory over temptations...

As the season of Lent begins, Jesus invites us into a reconciliation of accounts and a renewal in identity...

"Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord.  He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream..."(Jeremiah 17:7-8) 

In His hometown synagogue Jesus declared "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me." The Holy Spirit has been poured into us (Romans 5:5), making us the mystical body of Christ on earth.  The Lord is inviting us in these days of the New Evangelization to consider what we carry and what is truly possible as anointed sons and daughters of God...

The wedding feast at Cana points us to the eternal wedding feast that we are blessed to enjoy even now...

Your place in the Holy Family is your sweet spot...your identity confirmed in communion with God, forth from which flows "the good life" of your life in Christ.

In the prophet Micah's prophecy about the coming messiah Jesus, he declares "He shall be peace."  After His resurrection, Jesus declared to his disciples "peace I leave you, my peace I give you."  The gift of Christmas is Jesus...and living in His peace.

The infectious, healing, delightful joy of the Lord flows from our awareness of God's presence and shines the light of God's love to this world.  Lord...teach us & equip us with the grace to rejoice always in your presence! (Phil 4:4)

As we enter into the season of advent, the Lord is stirring us with a fresh desire for more of Him in our lives...

On this feast of Christ the King we remember Jesus said, "the Kingdom of God is among you" (Lk 17:21)  As we Unleash the Gospel in POWER it's key to grow in docility to the Holy Spirit...to trust the nudge!

As we consider the impact of the Unleash the Gospel Movement on our parish, we dream big!  We long for, and pursue ,a life as disciples & a parish that looks more like what we see in the Gospels & Acts of the Apostles than what we've experienced so far...

We enter into the powerful encounter between an understanding scribe & Jesus, which led to Jesus telling the scribe, "you are not far from the kingdom of God." (Mk 12:34)  As disciples who have been transferred to the kingdom of the Beloved Son (Col 1:13), the Church of Detroit is hungry to embrace the New Evangelization, and to unleash the gospel like never before...

In chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark, we hear of the encounter between Jesus and a rich man who asked Jesus, "what must I do to inherit eternal life."  Mark tells us that Jesus looked at the man with love (V21).  Jesus gazes on each of us with perfect love, fixing our eyes on Him and daily renewing our "yes" sets us free.

At a Generations of Faith Sunday at Corpus Christi in Detroit, with "The Call to Holiness" being the theme, we reflect on letting God's love flow through us...

In Chapter 7 of Mark's Gospel, we read of the wonderful healing of the man who was deaf and mute.  In this reflection, we consider how the Lord heals us in His perfect love, and how we can share His healing love with others.