Ave Maria Parish, Lexington, MI

06/05/2026

Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Day 2 - Heart of Jesus, source of justice and love

Lord, I come to Your tender Heart today,
to You who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to You who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.
I desire to know You more, to contemplate You in the Gospel,
to be with You and learn from You
and from the charity with which You allowed Yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.
You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with Your divine and human Heart.
Grant all Your children the grace of encountering You.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only You in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.
From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which You are the source from which all consolation flows.
Amen.
CNS photo / Lola Gomez

06/04/2026

Happy 66th Anniversary of Priesthood to Fr Eppenbrock on 6/4!
He is at Lakeshore Woods, 4851 Lakeshore Rd, Fort Gratiot, MI 48059. He'd love to see you if you are passing by.

06/04/2026

Consecration to Mary

06/03/2026

Novena to the Sacred Heart
Day 1

Lord, I come to Your tender Heart today,
to You who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to You who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.
I desire to know You more, to contemplate You in the Gospel,
to be with You and learn from You
and from the charity with which You allowed Yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.
You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with Your divine and human Heart.
Grant all Your children the grace of encountering You.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only You in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.
From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which You are the source from which all consolation flows.
Amen.

06/03/2026

Do You Know?

1. From whom do we learn how to pray in the New Testament?
-> Jesus Christ

2. From whom did Jesus first learn how to pray?
-> His Mother Mary

3. Jesus prayed before all the decisive moments of his ministry in serving his Father’s will. True or False?
-> True

4. According to the scriptures, Jesus often prayed _________. (a) in public (b) in solitude (c) before meals (d) in the Temple
-> (b) in solitude

06/01/2026

Tuesday, 6/2: No 10 am Mass at St Mary. Instead 11 am Funeral Mass at St Denis for Ramona Mendoza. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

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06/01/2026

Saint of the Week –June 5, Saint Boniface

Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to devote his life to the conversion of the Germanic tribes.

How absolutely necessary orthodoxy and fidelity are is borne out by the conditions Saint Boniface found on his first missionary journey in 719 at the request of Pope Gregory II. Paganism was a way of life. What Christianity he did find had either lapsed into paganism or was mixed with error. The clergy were mainly responsible for these latter conditions since they were in many instances uneducated, lax and questionably obedient to their bishops. In particular instances their very ordinations were questionable.

These are the conditions that Saint Boniface was to report in 722 on his first return visit to Rome. The Holy Father instructed him to reform the German Church. The pope sent letters of recommendation to religious and civil leaders. Boniface later admitted that his work would have been unsuccessful, from a human viewpoint, without a letter of safe-conduct from Charles Martel, the powerful Frankish ruler, grandfather of Charlemagne. Boniface was finally made a regional bishop and authorized to organize the whole German Church. He was eminently successful.

In the Frankish kingdom, he met great problems because of lay interference in bishops’ elections, the worldliness of the clergy and lack of papal control.

During a final mission to the Frisians, Boniface and 53 companions were massacred while he was preparing converts for confirmation.

In order to restore the Germanic Church to its fidelity to Rome and to convert the pagans, Saint Boniface had been guided by two principles. The first was to restore the obedience of the clergy to their bishops in union with the pope of Rome. The second was the establishment of many houses of prayer which took the form of Benedictine monasteries. A great number of Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns followed him to the continent, where he introduced the Benedictine nuns to the active apostolate of education.

05/30/2026

Holy Hour at St Denis

05/28/2026

Saturday, 5/30, 10 am, St Denis, Memorial Mass for Dave Hess. Please pray for him & family.

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05/27/2026

Do You Know?

1. Who was the father of the prophets who encountered God in the tiny whispering sound (Kings 19:1-14)? (a) Isaiah (b) Ezekiel (c) Elijah
-> (c) Elijah

2. To what King in the Old Testament are many of the Psalms attributed?
-> David

3. How many Books of Psalms are there in the Old Testament? (a) 150 (b) 5 (c) 15
-> (b) 5

4. Were the psalmist’s words usually spoken or sung?
-> Sung