Upcoming Event

St. Valentine Blood Drive coming soon!

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Palm Sunday, April 9th is the date!
 Our next Blood Drive is Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017 from 8am to 2pm. Please consider donating since the Red Cross has had low amounts of blood donations this winter and they need our help. You can  email – cgallredcrblooddrive@gmail.com – or see me after mass for the next few weekends. If you can’t donate please consider donating a dish to feed the Red Cross Staff that day. Just see me after mass to let me know. Thank you and God Bless!

Cecilia Gallagher

Blood Drive Coordinator

Final Redford Soup Supper

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Please join us Wednesday, March 29th for the final Soup Supper Series here at St. Valentine.

St. Valentine Video—Elements of the Catholic Mass Part II

Doors open at 6:00 pm, soup is served at 6:30 pm and the speaker or video series begin at 7 pm.

Desserts Needed –  If you can donate a dessert for our Soup Supper it would be greatly appreciated! Desserts may be dropped off at the Parish Office on March 29th between the hours of 9 am and 11:30 am and 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm. Or you may bring them to the gym after 5:00 pm. Thank you for your goodies!

70th Anniversary Celebration

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Please purchase your 70th Anniversary tickets by April 12. A wonderful evening is planned beginning with a special Mass with Bishop Cepeda, dinner, music and a silent auction to celebrate 70 years of St. Valentine’s Parish. We have several interesting auction donations including Tigers and Notre Dame football tickets, restaurants, flower arrangements and much more. Don’t miss out! A representative from the Parish Council is available after Mass to sell tickets and answer questions. Please contact Mary Anthony at 734-422-1849 or email at maryellenanthony@aol.com

70th Celebration Update

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Please be sure to get us your reservations  for the 70th birthday celebration!

Plan on joining us for the 5 pm Mass with Bishop Cepeda as our Celebrant. Afterwards Mass join us for dinner  and the celebration in the gym.

Tickets are $25 a piece and available for purchase. Please send your payment with your reservation. Thank you. You may drop your ticket request and check in the  collection basket in an envelope marked “70th” and we will be sure the Parish Council receives it.  NOTE:  You may download the ticket form right from this page – 2017 70th Anniversary Flier 

For ticket information call Mary Anthony at 734-422-1849.

 

Silent Auction Items Needed!

Do you have any hobbies or talents? Maybe you have a friend or relative that does. Or maybe you own a business. We are looking for donations for our auction. If you would like to submit something for the silent auction, please email Lisa Alexander at lisa@talexan459.com or Dan Benard at dpbenard@aol.com.

 

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The message that the readings share for this weekend is that the Good News confronts us with the need to make a decision. We are either for Jesus or we are against Him. Simply going to church on Holy Days of Obligations is not enough. If our decision to be FOR Jesus makes no difference in how we live our lives, then all the Masses, prayers and almsgiving is in vain. It is all a mockery that cries out to heaven for vengeance. Jesus wants our undivided hearts.

Are we convinced that following Jesus, living according to His will, is the right thing? If so, we should live our Christian Faith 24×7. Jesus wants us to have an undivided heart so that we too can have strength of soul and peace of mind. He tells us that we can only serve one master, and we must decide who it will be, God or man.

It is difficult to make a total decision for Jesus Christ. Often it is difficult to know what He is asking us to do, and often it is even harder to do it. That is why Jesus gives us himself through the Eucharist – enlightening and strengthening us before sending us back to our everyday lives. It is outside the church walls that our decision to live completely for Jesus Christ is put to the test. It is in our everyday life that we encounter Jesus afresh; in the people and circumstances of our lives. It is there, in those everyday moments and circumstances that we are called to live with undivided hearts. Let us do the best we can and that’s all is asked of us.

 

Final Reminder—Sacrament of Anointinganointing

If you wish to receive the Sacrament of Anointing during the 5 pm Mass on Saturday, September 24, you are asked to call the rectory office 313-532-4394 by Wednesday, September 21; and register your name.

 

Congratulations to Jim Nicola

On October 1, 2016 our own parish member, Jim Nicola will be ordained a deacon at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. St. Valentine Parish can be proud of sharing one priest and two deacons (so far) to minister in this Archdiocese. As for Jim, it will be a new ministry and a new responsibility besides all his family responsibilities.

Join us on October 8 as he will be assisting for the first time as Deacon Jim at the 5:00 pm Mass at St. Valentine. It will be a good opportunity to participate in the Mass and to congratulate him. Let us offer a prayer for him and his family as he takes up this new task. As we congratulate him we also ask the Lord to be with him in his journey and guide him.

 

 India Catholic Association (ICA)

icaI also want to give you a heads up that on October 1, 2016 the 5.00 pm Mass will be for the India Catholic Association (ICA) with Archbishop Vigneron being the main celebrant.  Anyone can be part of this celebration in Church as the Mass itself will not take any extra time. The ICA is not that big of a community so everyone can be accommodated in the Church. They will take care of the music and the liturgy including Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers.  And then we will have the second part of celebration in the School Gym where if you want to be part of it then you will have to pay so I won’t encourage you to be there since everything has been already preplanned, but it will be great to see many of you in Church on Saturday, October 1 for the 5.00 pm Mass so that we can have a wonderful celebration with The Most Rev. Allen Vigneron.

 

God Bless you.

Fr. Socorro