Diocesan Service Appeal 2018

Happy Sunday! This week’s bulletin article is a written extension of the verbal announcement I gave at each of the Masses last weekend regarding our yearly parish DSA commitment. I will flesh out here a bit more on the subject, although you have already heard the basic nugget, so please exercise your liberty to skip … Continued

We’re Growing!

This article contains some very good news!  Because our mission as a parish has truly been in keeping with our patron, St. John the Evangelist, we are growing!  Fr. Chas Canoy has led the people of this church in a purposeful effort to execute the Great Commission, that is, to “Go, therefore, and make disciples … Continued

Jesus Christ, Hope of the World!

Dear Parish Family, Christus resurrexit! is Latin for “Christ is risen!”  It was a traditional greeting from one Christian to another.  So when you hear someone greet you, “Christ is risen!”, the proper response is “He is risen, indeed!”  This is the great victory that we celebrate today!   The hopeful message of Easter comes … Continued

Union with God

“It is not a relationship with Jesus that I want…” I read those words from a little booklet written by a priest named Fr. David Vincent Meconi. I decided I didn’t want to read such rubbish and I tossed the book aside. Some years later I saw that same book on my stack of things … Continued

Fr. Brian Lenz Named new Chaplain of Lumen Christi Catholic School

MostRev. Earl Boyea, Bishop of Lansing, has announced that the current Parochial Vicar of St. John Parish in Jackson, Rev. Brian Lenz, will be the new Chaplain of Lumen Christi Catholic School as of the start of the new school year this August. He will be replacing Rev. Daniel Lannen, who concludes his service to … Continued