Livonia, Michigan

Posts by Doug Holliday

Help Us Buy an Ad!

We will be collecting signatures and monetary donations again this year to place an ad for St. Geneveive-St. Maurice in the 2026 Right to Life – LIFESPAN Resource Book. Last year: from the generosity of our parishioners, we were able to place an ad on the back cover of the Resource Book! We hope to…

National Marriage Week

The observances of National Marriage Week (February 7-14) and World Marriage Day (Sunday, February 8) are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family. Our theme for 2026 is “Man and Woman He Created Them: Together with Purpose.” As a couple…

Faith Formation News

Hello Families, The students are beginning their preparation for Lent. Please join us for our Family Activity Night on Wednesday February 18th (Ash Wednesday) at 5:45 pm for a cheese pizza dinner, Lenten activity, and Mass at 7 pm. In todays’ Gospel, Jesus teaches that his disciples are to be the salt of the earth…

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

GROW AS A DISCIPLE My understanding of prayer changed when I read St. Teresa of Calcutta’s statement that says, “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.” Prayer is not an incantation that can change the will of God.  It is the act…

Vocations

A vocation or calling refers to a spiritual experience whereby a person senses within oneself the closeness of God and what he is asking in one’s life. It is a realization of what one’s part in God’s plan could be. Vocation comes in all kinds of ways. Some are as dramatic as St. Paul’s, being…

Funeral Luncheon Volunteers Needed!

Did you know that St. Genevieve-St. Maurice Parish provides a funeral luncheon service for families suffering the loss of a family member? Our parish will provide the use of the Activities Center completely set-up and staffed to serve you. The family needs to provide a caterer to prepare food for the luncheon. We take care…

Faith Formation News

Hello Families, Today’s Gospel offers a contrast to many of the messages we hear in our society today. If we were to accept uncritically the “get ahead” messages of our culture, we would think that happiness means having money, being successful, having many possessions, and so on. When we think this way, we are not…