Explore the latest bulletin articles from St. John the Evangelist Catholic Parish in Jackson, MI—featuring weekly reflections, pastoral insights, faith formation, community updates, and spiritual inspiration for parishioners
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Pentecost Healing Service
Dear Parish Family, I am happy to announce that we have a newly ordained deacon: Rev. Mr. David Etters! Please join us in congratulating Deacon Dave (that has a nice ring to it)! There will be a reception after the 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Masses at which Deacon Dave will be serving. Both Deacon
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As they were looking on, He was lifted
Ascension of Jesus is a mystery This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Jesus led the disciples as far as the outskirts of Bethany, which is less than two miles from Jerusalem (John 11:18); raising His hands He blessed them and “as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and
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Our Dear Barb Dwyer is Retiring
Dear Parish Family, One of the sweetest people we know, Barb Dwyer, is unfortunately retiring from her position as Coordinator of Senior Ministry at the end of June. We can understand how her husband Moe wants to spend more time with her because we would too! She has been a mainstay for our seniors, particularly
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Pure unbounded Love
The gospel today summarizes what Jesus has bequeathed for us, namely the Love of the Father revealed in the Love of Jesus. Jesus urges his followers to abide in his love and to love one another. This love for neighbor must have as its model and exemplar in Christ’s love for his disciples, which made
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Dave Etters to be a Deacon on May 16!
Dear Parish Family, The Church has had a long-standing tradition of observing May as a month in which the faithful especially honor the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our hurting and divided world needs the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of Peace. Consider praying the holy rosary with your family, even if it is just onedecade before
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Abide
Jesus said: “I am the vine and you are the branches.” Jesus clearly expresses the intimate union that must exist between Jesus and his followers under the image of vine and its branches. Father is the vinedresser and He prunes the good ones and cuts off the useless ones. He does the pruning as part
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A regular Sunday evening Mass?
Dear Parish Family, One issue that parishioners have brought up with me time and time again at the Thursday fireside chats we’ve been having is the question, “How do we attract the youth and young families to St. John Parish?” It is no secret that our parishioners have a more mature demographic profile than decades
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To be a sheepdog or a shepherd
How often we hear the sad news of young people risking their lives, attempting suicide, getting duped to the drug abusers, or alcohol abusers’ groups. Home schooled as well as church schooled or public schooled, all are easily drawn away from the morally upright behaviors. The symptoms are very identical in every one’s case.
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The Symbolon Series Continues!
Dear Parish Family, Our faith formation is ongoing and lifelong; we are called to grow in our knowledge and love of the Lord, as our eternal destiny consists precisely in this! What we value and hold dear now in our short earthly life is indicative of how we desire to spend our eternity. The pastoral
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Clogged minds and closed hearts
Two disciples had been on their way to Emmaus. They were leaving Jerusalem; their hopes were shattered after Jesus’ death. Then they met the risen Lord. They didn’t recognize him at first, but they did after he opened the Scriptures for them and broke bread with them. After their encounter they returned to the community
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Happy 50 Days of Easter!
Dear Parish Family, While Lent may be 40 days, our celebration of the Easter season lasts 50 days from the first Sunday of Easter all the way to the Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday a full seven weeks later! What a Holy Week! Despite the diminished numbers due to a concurrent spring break, what a
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His mercy endures forever
Pope John Paul II established the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy, of course, is the unconditional love of God seen from the point of view of the sinner. It is the fidelity of the love of God. Divine Mercy Sunday can be seen as the convergence of all the mysteries
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Christ is Risen, Alleluia!
On this Easter day, we here in Jackson proclaim with the Church all throughout the world that sin and hatred, death and division, violence and vitriol do NOT have the final say! The Easter message is that, in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has conquered all of these through the eternally greater power of
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Raised with Christ
Christ the Lord is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia. “And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15: 14, 17)
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The Holiest Week of the Year!
Dear Parish Family, With today’s Passion Sunday celebration, Holy Week is upon us! I pray that it may be a moving week for each of us, one that draws us closer to the Lord that intimately knows our suffering, but also raises us up from it through the power of his Resurrection. May you enter
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Save us, we beseech you, O Lord
With the Palm Sunday liturgy we enter in to the Holy week. The church invites us to enter into a journey to accompany Jesus in his last week, to reflect and renew our Christian lives in the light of Jesus’s life. The triumphal entry of Jesus in to Jerusalem comes first to our minds. Every one
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Only Two Weeks Until Easter Joy!
Dear Parish Family, Already on the 5th Sunday of Lent, we only have two weeks to go before the Resurrection of Easter! The topic this week for Faith Formation Friday is a very fitting one, given what we celebrate this upcoming Holy Week, “The Paschal Mystery: The Mystery of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection.” It begins
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Now the Green Blade Rises
This Sunday’s gospel passage begins with a request to Philip by some Greeks, who would like to see Jesus. They wanted to know more about Jesus and wanted to come to believe in Him. In his own lifetime Jesus’ ministry was almost exclusively confined to his own people. (Romans 15:8). The Greeks who came asking
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