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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Who Will You Invite?
Our parish is now launching its 9th large group session of Alpha! We started back in 2015, and in these past four years, many of you have taken part, helping out, enjoying the fellowship of the event, but more importantly learning more about Christ and, in doing so, drawing closer in relationship with Him. Initially,…
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From the Messy Desk of the Youth Minister
These past few weeks, our high school youth group has been looking at the way our Lord reveals himself through Scripture and our own relationship with Scripture. It’s not only been helpful to go through as a group, but it’s been helpful to me personally. I love words. In college I studied journalism because I…
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Dynamic Dinner Duo
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Physical & Spiritual Fitness through “Movement Toward Christ”
Dear Parish Family, I don’t know about you, but I gained a good number of pounds over the Christmas season! With the new year, many of us have the good intentions of getting back to healthier and more moderate eating, as well as more regular exercise. It’s often easier to be dedicated to this when…
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Where Study May Lead
In Matthew Kelly’s book, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic, one of the four signs he focuses on is STUDY. To read and raise our knowledge. To learn. Study is what ultimately led me to the Catholic Church. I had a really emotional encounter with the Holy Spirit back in 1994. I was not…
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Faith Journeys: Reflecting on the Magi
One of my mom’s favorite Christmas carols was “We Three Kings,” and partly for this reason this song has always spoken to me. What was it about the song the captivated her? I don’t know for sure, but maybe it was the rhythm that seems to magically capture the procession of the kings on their…
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From the Desk of the Pastor: New Year’s Resolution
Dear Parish Family, As many of you know, we’ve recently begun the Year of Prayer, and thus, we’ve focused in this last month on the basics of how to have an interpersonal relationship with God through a regular prayer life. May I offer you a challenge for 2019? I encourage you to make the commitment…
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A Christmas Message from Fr. Chas!
Dear Parishioners & Visitors, Christmas is about family: our immediate family and the family of God. By God’s family, I’m not just referring to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. I’m referring to you and me! We are part of God’s family, sons and daughters of God the Father. But similar to what can happen in our…
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Christmas Mass Times
Come and celebrate the Birth of our Lord at one of our many Christmas liturgies!
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A Year of Prayer: Look at What We’re Praying for
This is the prayer the Diocese of Lansing has composed for all the faithful to pray during the 2019 Year of Prayer. A few lines from the prayer say: Father, You invite each of us to share in the life and ministry of your Son, Jesus. Send your Holy Spirit to form our parish as…
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Curing the Disease
I’m writing today to thank the St. John’s Parish ‘Ministries’ and especially the ‘Small Groups’ that exist in our parish. As Pastoral Council President, I’m blessed to see firsthand all the great outreach opportunities we offer to our parishioners and public. Our St. John’s Leadership team is one of the most hardworking groups of individuals…
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Remembering Andy Bihl
As many of you know, Andy Bihl, our Director of Parish Operations, passed away on Saturday morning, November 24. His wife, Amanda, called me with the tragic news at about noon that day, and I drove out to Albion to the Bihl home to be with the her and the five children. The investigating Michigan…
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From the Desk of the Pastor
Dear Parish Family, Happy feast day of Christ the King! We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you’ve found our 3-part homily series, “Priest, Prophet, and King,” edifying. Fr. Brian’s and my hope is that we are not only more knowledgeable about our participation in this threefold office and mission of Jesus Christ,…
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From the Messy Desk of the Youth Minister…
Dear Parish Family, I have a small public confession to make. As much as I love vacations and holidays and special occasions, there’s just something about “ordinary” that really attracts me. I love the familiarity of a schedule with no disruptions and that feeling of knowing what to expect that day. There’s a simple…
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Diocesan Women’s Conference & On Becoming Dynamic Catholics
On November 3rd, over 2 dozen women from our parish enjoyed a beautiful day of fellowship and learning at the Diocesan Women’s Conference, “Arise, My Beloved,” in Lansing. Here’s what a few of our attendees had to say: **“I got so much out of the beautiful music, the words, and singing with such a crowd…
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Something Awesome this Way Comes
Something awesome this way comes! Can you feel it? Can you sense it? We so often see the downward spiral of statistics showing the Catholic Church of the West in decline. We’ve seen here in Jackson over the last 40 years a dramatic down-shifting from the numbers of parishes, schools, vocations and participating members. If…
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Lectio Divina: Being Seen by God
Hi Saint John Community, As we’re focusing on becoming missionary disciples and diving deep into Matthew Kelly’s book, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic, I’d love to share my favorite way of getting to know God and growing in intimacy with Him: lectio divina, which is Latin for divine reading. It was through…
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What’s next?
Dear Parish Family, On September 22, history was made for our Diocese of Lansing. I was amazed by how strong a showing our St. John Parish had at the Diocesan Assembly! Among the 13,000+ people at MSU’s Breslin Center, we were 350+ strong, which is more than one-fourth of usual weekend Mass attendance! That robust…
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