Check out these pictures taken of the Knights of Columbus Blessing of the Bikes event held on Sunday, June 8, 2025. The blessing was held after the 11:15 am Mass. Bikes and cars were welcome. There were prizes, T-shirts and a raffle with all the proceeds benefiting local homeless veterans.
Photos taken by Doug Powell
Please join us for a Farewell Reception for Fr. Ginu as we thank him for his service and wish him well in his new assignment at St. Mary’s in Williamston, Michigan. Saturday, June 28 after the 5:00 p.m. Mass at St. Robert’s Parish in Angel Hall. Hosted by the St. Robert Council of Catholic Women (CCW) and the Knights of Columbus #8489.
On Wednesday, June 3rd the Knights held their second Euchre Tournament in the Knights of Columbus Hall. Walt Davis won first prize, his wife Gloria took second prize, Patrick Bisson Jr. took third place and Patty Cole graciously took last place. It was a fun evening for all!
players winding down after some good competition, nice to see all smiles and no tears
Stay tuned for upcoming dates!
You can help save lives when you give blood. A blood drive will be held 12:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 at Good Shepherd Church in the Knights of Columbus Hall.
The event is co-sponsored by the Good Shepherd Knights of Columbus Council 8669. For more information or appointment, visit redcrossblood.org (sponsor code: Montrose) or call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Give the perfect gift. Give Blood.
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Happy Solemnity of Pentecost! Today, we celebrate the fiftieth and final day of the Easter season. It culminates a liturgical journey we’ve been on together, which stretches even further back to Ash Wednesday. On that day, March 5th, we donned violet vestments to inaugurate a deeper discipline of fasting and penance, preparing for the explosion of white on Resurrection Sunday. Now after seven weeks of paschal joy, it all comes to its fulfillment in a blaze of holy red. As far as Sundays go, the crimson hue is as rare as rose! We only see it twice, on Palm Sunday and Pentecost Sunday.
There’s a wonderful parallel today with how we celebrate Pentecost. You may know that before it was a Christian feast day, Pentecost was (and still is) a Jewish feast day. The book of Exodus relates that the Hebrew people arrived at the desert of Sinai in the seventh week after their Passover from Egypt and camped at the foot of its mountain. God summoned Moses to the mountaintop, upon which He descended in fire, and there wrote on tablets of stone the Ten Commandments. God also gave further commandments through Moses to establish specific rules for right living and right worship. This revelation was a foundational moment in the history of Israel because it defined their new identity. They were to be the people of the Law, unique among all nations on earth for their proximity to God and their wisdom in governance. The Jewish feast of Shavuot (also named Pentecost or Feast of Weeks) would later on stand as the yearly commemoration of the giving of the Law, always celebrated fifty days after Passover.
Acts 2 records our Christian Pentecost within the context of Jewish Pentecost. Jerusalem was filled with people to celebrate Shavuot, when on that morning God came down from the heavens in fire and definitively gave a new Law, not written on stone but upon the heart, as prophesied by Ezekiel (36:26) and Jeremiah (31:33). The disciples that gathered in the Upper Room were utterly changed by the Holy Spirit and their identities were redefined by a new relationship with God. Pentecost was the conclusion of an old life and the beginning of a new journey by a re-created people. They were filled in the fire of the same divine love that animated Jesus and made him victor over sin and death. Pentecost for Christians is the birthday of the Church. We commemorate the day that God made us His very dwelling place, and we share with all peoples on earth His divine wisdom.
As for me, personally, I’ve always felt like Advent begins the “Dear Disciple,” of a long liturgical letter, and Pentecost is its “Sincerely Yours”. Making it through this weekend for me kind of feels like completing a school year. Besides a brief P.S. of feasts that follow Pentecost, I know that we’ll have some extended liturgical breathing room as we roll into the summer months. And that feels like an accomplishment. Right around this time of year, I always tend to feel a little bit cooped up, somewhat running ragged, and ready to relax. I’d bet I speak for many of us; it’s just the way the cycle goes. So, when I watch the re-creation of nature in the return of beautiful spring foliage, I gratefully remember an important lesson. Which is that God’s plan for new life and new growth in our souls truly does include recreating. You just have to be like all the re-emerging foliage. Hang around, breathe easy, and bask in the warmth of the day.
Fr. Brian
The Knights of Columbus 4th degree assembly 2211 is collecting goods for the residence of the Aleta V. Lutz Veterans Hospital in Saginaw. This is a veterans’ nursing home. We ask you to please be generous as a lot of the residents have no family nearby.
Items Requested
Women’s t shirts & undergarments – all sizes • Laundry Detergent (name brands only)
Gift cards (Meijer, Walmart, Mastercard prepaid, gas) – $10 – $50.
– NO FOOD ITEMS, THANK YOU.
Questions? Call Adam Lupo, Chief of Voluntary Service, (989) 497-2500 ext. 13369
There will be a drop box for your donations at the front entrance of the church and in the Family Life Center.
Bishop Boyea is calling on all parishes to take part in a diocesan-wide 40 Hours Campaign of perpetual Eucharistic Adoration leading up to Corpus Christi.
St. Robert Church will host Adoration for St. Robert/Good Shepherd Parishes, starting at 8 PM on Sunday, June 15, and ending on Tuesday, June 17, at Noon.
We need many adorers to sign up for one-hour periods (especially during night-time hours) in St. Robert Church to ensure Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is not left alone.
This is a powerful opportunity to deepen Eucharistic devotion and to pray for conversion—whether it be for loved ones, fallen away Catholics, or the unchurched.
Sign up online:
Sunday, 6/15, from 8 pm to Midnight: https://signup.com/go/HLaoJNr
Monday, 6/16, from Midnight to Midnight: https://signup.com/go/VQoJdhO
Tuesday, 6/17, from Midnight to Noon: https://signup.com/go/hmFNkTV
Questions? Contact Renee (810.964.7597) or email theshaws7@hotmail.com
The 40 Hours Devotion in the Diocese will conclude on June 21 with a Mass at Jackson Field with Bishop Boyea, followed by a Eucharistic procession with the Blessed Sacrament to St. Mary Cathedral, where participants will receive the Jubilee Year Plenary Indulgence.
Pope Francis opened the Jubilee Year of Hope for the universal Church on Christmas Eve 2024 in Rome. Pope Francis released a papal bull proclaiming the Holy Year 2025. The Bull of Indiction for the Jubilee Year is entitled Spes non confundit (“Hope does not disappoint” and can be found here). In addition, the Apostolic Penitentiary has published this decree.
The Jubilee of Hope Opened in the Diocese of Lansing on December 29, 2024,
The Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
To Strengthen & Share Hope
A central aspect of the Jubilee Year is the Jubilee Year Indulgence.
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE APOSTOLIC PENITENTIARY
INDULGENCES FOR JUBILEE YEAR 2025
A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin.
The indulgence applies to sins already forgiven. A plenary indulgence cleanses the soul as if the person had just been baptized. Plenary indulgences obtained during the Jubilee Year can also be applied to souls in purgatory with the possibility of obtaining two plenary indulgences for the deceased in one day.
To obtain an indulgence, the usual conditions of detachment from all sin, sacramental confession, holy Communion, and prayer for the intentions of the pope must be met. (Usually, an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be).
Holy Doors are to be opened at the Papal Basilicas of St. Peter, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul Outside the Walls (no. 6) and at the Rebibbia Prison in Rome. The Dicastery for Evangelization notes that the distinguishing mark of the Jubilee Year is not the Holy Door, but rather the Jubilee Indulgence, received through the Sacrament of Penance and acts of charity and hope. The various ways and many places where this indulgence may be obtained are summarized above and are outlined in the Apostolic Penitentiary’s Decree on the Granting of the Jubilee Indulgence issued May 13, 2024.
Click here to learn more:
+Find out conditions for how to obtain the Jubilee Year Indulgences
+Diocesan Events for the Jubilee Year
+Places of Pilgrimage in the Diocese of Lansing
+Questions Regarding Indulgences