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All Are Welcome

CARE program — now in its 20th year — continues transforming participants and parishioners at Blessed Sacrament in Midland.
Ablaze

Northwood Goes ‘Timby’ for Catholics on Campus

After years without a Catholic presence, the faith is coming alive on Northwood University’s campus.
Education

Excellence in Teaching Award honors two diocesan instructors

The impact a teacher can have on a student’s life lasts far beyond the classroom.
Feature

Sending love for Lukulu ... from Michigan

A group of Catholic missionaries travel to Zambia to serve through Love for Lukulu and Beyond, a Freeland-based nonprofit.

Making A Difference, Building Community


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Your Life

Parting thoughts

For everything there is a season, and for me, the season of my editorship has come to a close.
News

St. John Paul II Parish celebrates church rededication after five-year renovation journey

St. John Paul II Parish celebrated the rededication of its newly renovated church on June 20.
Parenting

Helping kids see grace in the everyday

Here are a few ways we can request and notice God’s grace in our everyday lives and teach our children to do the same. 
Whole and Holy

The Holy Spirit orders our lives to the ultimate destination: Heaven

Bishop Gruss announced this year to be the year of the Holy Spirit.

Anniversaries for 2026


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Your Faith

From Bishop Gruss

“Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

The Year of the Holy Spirit has begun in the Diocese of Saginaw.
Grow as a Disciple of Jesus

A winning strategy for sharing faith

This article challenges us to embrace the "Win, Build, Send" model of discipleship.
Feature

‘Farming and stewardship are vocations,’ Bishop Gruss says at Rural Life Mass

More than 120 people gathered at the Octagon Barn this summer for the fifth annual Catholic Rural Life Mass in the region.
Vocations

Prayer, Partnership and Support to ‘Go Make Disciples’

Every vocation begins with an invitation from God and a heart willing to listen.

St. Francis Sings Us Back to God


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