Meanwhile, spires at Sweetest Heart of Mary also twisted, ‘slowly collapsing’ Detroit — The fate of St. Josaphat Church’s leaning steeple and Sweetest Heart of Mary Church’s two twisted spires depends on financial assistance to save the lofty structures from complete removal. These two historic churches, which along with St. Joseph Church on Jay Street,…
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Immaculate Conception, Archbishop Vigneron’s boyhood parish, gets new roof, repairs through Changing Lives Together
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Bill Blaul Special to The Michigan Catholic Anchorville — The first Catholic church building in Anchorville, a wood frame structure, burned to the ground in 1917. Less than a year later, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Parish built a brick church, which is now receiving a new roof and other repairs funded through a successful Changing…
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Retreat to focus on God’s will
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Detroit — St. Paul on the Lake Parish in Grosse Pointe Farms will host a free one-day spiritual retreat Nov. 16 in connection with the Changing Lives Together capital stewardship campaign. The daylong retreat, which includes Mass with Auxiliary Bishop Francis Reiss, will focus on helping participants discern God’s will in their everyday lives and…
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Macomb County parish starts, sustains prayer ministry through Changing Lives Together
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Bill Blaul Special to The Michigan Catholic Washington Township — As the Changing Lives Together initiative at SS. John and Paul Parish brings the Washington Township parish closer to building a new parish center, the campaign has also been the catalyst for starting a parish prayer ministry now involving hundreds of the faithful. “Before we…
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Parishes given blessed image of St. Anne
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Gifts from Abp. Vigneron in thanks for Changing Lives Together’s $109M success DETROIT — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron presented representatives from nearly every parish in the Archdiocese of Detroit with a blessed image of St. Anne on Sept. 29 as a way of saying “thanks” for their participation in the ongoing Changing Lives Together capital…
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Pastor pounds pavement for parish’s future
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Fr. Joseph Gembala visits 600 St. Malachy households to support Changing Lives Together Bill Blaul | Special to The Michigan Catholic Sterling Heights — The pastor of St. Malachy Parish, Sterling Heights, decided last year that his parish volunteers were doing enough, and it would need to be his responsibility to conduct the parish Changing…
