GROW AS A DISCIPLE In today’s first reading, we hear how Moses, obedient to God’s command, ascends Mount Sinai early in the morning. Up at the summit, the Lord appears to Moses in a cloud and shares his name with Moses: “LORD” (in Hebrew, the tetragrammaton, the unspeakably holy divine name). But God doesn’t only…
Dear Parish Family of St. Genevieve-St. Maurice, THANK YOU so much for donating to the 2026 LIFESPAN Mother’s Day Flowers! Your generosity will be put to work in Southeast Michigan to help spread the Gospel of Life. Yours for LIFE from conception until natural death, Right to Life –LIFESPAN Wayne County Chapter milifespan.org Children are…
The parish Saint Vincent de Paul Society would like to thank you for all you do and let you know that you have made major improvements in the lives of many. It’s through your generosity and prayers that lives are being changed. Recently your donations helped a grandmother that had recently taken custody of her…
Hello Families, Pentecost is sometimes called the birthday of the Church. The Gospel for Pentecost reminds us that the Church begins with the command to forgive. Within the family, the domestic Church, we learn how to forgive and how to accept forgiveness. The gift of the Holy Spirit enables us to do both. Today is…
Piety is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and is related to the virtue of justice. St. Thomas Aquinas writes, “Piety denotes the reverence which we give to our faith and to our country. And since God is the Father of all, the worship of God is also called piety…therefore the gift…
GROW AS A DISCIPLE The Solemnity of Pentecost is about the gift of the Spirit in our lives. St. Paul reminds us that despite the variety of gifts we have received, we are one Body. To make sense of this, consider that on a human level, some of us are introverts, while others are extroverts.…
Pope Paul VI, in Ecclesia Suam, considered “loyalty, perseverance and self-sacrifice” to be the distinguishing marks of a Christian in a modern world that increasingly embraces relativism. “The follower of Christ is not pliant and cowardly, but loyal and strong,” he wrote. The virtue of loyalty is closely linked to the virtue of obedience, wherein…