Comm. 239 Sponsors Eagle Scout Project

Comm. 239 Sponsors Eagle Scout Project

The St. Joseph Shrine Commandery #239 (Detroit) was a sponsor of the Eagle Scout project of Timothy Halleaux, who earned his Eagle Scout rank in a ceremony on Saturday, May 11. Timothy’s project saw a series of ADA-accessible picnic tables constructed and...
Commandery 239 Corporate Communion Mass

Commandery 239 Corporate Communion Mass

Commandery 239 Corporate Communion Mass (April 28th) After the mass, Doug H. talked to the membership of St. Joseph Shrine about the history of the Knights of St. John and asked men to consider joining the Knights. Other brother knights were there to answer any...
5th Sunday of Easter

5th Sunday of Easter

5th Sunday of Easter (YEAR B) Acts 9: 26-31; Ps 22; 1John 3 :18-24; Jn 15: 1-8 Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter and the gospel tells us a conversation of Jesus with His disciples during their supper before His arrest. Jesus used the image of a plant. He is the vine...
4th Sunday of Easter

4th Sunday of Easter

Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B (Good Shepherd Sunday) Acts 4: 8-12; 1John3:1-2; John 10:11-18 Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday. The gospel proclaims Jesus as the good shepherd who gave up his life for his flock. During the holy...
3rd Sunday of Easter

3rd Sunday of Easter

3rd Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 3:13-15,17-19; 1John 2:1-5; Luke 24: 35-48 We are in the third Sunday of Easter, and in today’s gospel, the Risen Lord appears again to His disciples. They are still troubled; broken apart and scattered by His crucifixion and death and...
Divine Mercy Sunday

Divine Mercy Sunday

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER – B ACTS 4:32-35 PSALM 118 1 JOHN 5:1-6 JOHN 20:19-31 Today is the second Sunday of Easter, which is also celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. In today’s gospel, the Risen Lord breathes the Holy Spirit on His disciples and sends them to forgive...
Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

Acts 10:34,37-43; Col. 3:1-4; John 20:1-19 The Lord is risen, brothers and sisters, alleluia! On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead as he had said to his disciples. And we have, in John’s gospel that would be proclaimed today, the figures Mary of Magdala, Simon...
Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark14:1-15:39 Today is the Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the beginning of the Holy Week. After we commemorate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem in the opening liturgy, the gospel takes us to Jesus’s last supper with his...
5th Sunday of Lent

5th Sunday of Lent

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Jer.31:31-34; Ps. 50:3-15; Hebrew 5:7-9; John 12:20-30 Today on the 5th Sunday of Lent, we journey with Christ as he prepares himself to embrace the hour of humiliation and suffering, the hour of his impending death. The first reading of this...