Friends,
I was blessed this past week to attend two high school baccalaureate ceremonies; Marlette high school last Sunday and Sandusky high school on Thursday. High school graduates the past few year have faced the unique challenge of the pandemic these last few years. They are also entering a world that is more uncertain then perhaps ever before in terms of the ideas and institutions that provided stability in the past being challenged to fundamentally. Nevertheless, God has chosen them for this moment in history. Let's keep them, and all graduates, in our prayers in a special way this week.
Be aware, too, that we plan to recognize all of our graduates at Holy Family in a special way this coming Sunday, May 29th at the 8:30am Mass at St. Joseph. If you know of a graduate here at the parish, this coming Sunday might be a good time to hand them a congratulations card.
As we look into June, please mark Sunday, June 19th on your calendar, it's the feast of Corpus Christi (and also happens to be Father's Day). Like last year, we will form a Eucharistic procession by car between our three parish sites. Our procession is given added significance this year because on that same Sunday the USCCB is kicking off a National Eucharistic Revival (https://eucharisticrevival.org/). As it says on their website:
"The Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. They believe that God wants to see a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist—and sent out in mission 'for the life of the world.'
These three years will culminate in the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost fifty years. Almost a hundred thousand Catholics will join together in Indianapolis for a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage toward the 'source and summit' of our Catholic faith."
I invite you to participate in our "grassroots revival" here at Holy Family with our procession on June 19th!
ADMG,
Fr. Stephen
