The observances of National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) and World Marriage Day (Sunday, Feb. 9) are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family. This year’s theme is “Marriage: Source of Hope, Spring of Renewal. Pursue a Lasting Love!” Visit foryourmarriage.org to…
Hello, My name is Fr. Craig Giera, and I am the Director of Priestly Vocations for the Archdiocese of Detroit. You may have heard that we have a vocation crisis going on in our world, but that’s not exactly true. God has never stopped calling men to the priesthood. In approximately ten years, here in…
Save the Date! The popular St. Genevieve-St. Maurice Lenten Fish Fry Dinners are coming up and volunteers will be needed! The help of each parishioner and parish organization member is what makes this event a great success year after year. Please look at your calendar and pencil in the times you and your family are…
Dear families, Our classes have resumed after the holidays and snow days! Please continue to pray for our Faith Formation program and especially our sacramental students. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Flower Card fundraiser. Your generosity is greatly appreciated! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Discuss with…
GROW AS A DISCIPLE Mary and Joseph bring their 40-day-old infant Jesus to the temple in order to fulfill the Mosaic law. There, they are met by Simeon and Anna, the faithful prophets who have spent their lives waiting for the coming of the King of Glory. These many years of waiting were like the…
Hello Families, Jesus was the one sent by God to bring salvation to the world. Jesus announced that mission using the framework we hear in today’s Gospel from the prophet Isaiah: glad tidings will be brought to the poor, liberty to captives, recovery of sight for the blind, and freedom for the oppressed. Jesus inaugurates…
GROW AS A DISCIPLE Late 19th-century English author G.K. Chesterton famously wrote, “Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls, but they are the walls of a playground.” We can think of God’s commandments serving as rules governing primary school recess: by providing us with a structure in which we can explore, play, stumble, and get…