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News
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A sincere Thank You to all who donated items for our Thanksgiving Bags. At this time, we do not need any more Jello or puddings. Our needs for this month are as follows:Read More
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Covid 19
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Response and Recommendations
AUGUST 17, 2021 UPDATE
- The Archdiocese of Detroit encourages Mass-goers, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face-coverings and to practice social distancing to reduce exposure to COVID-19
- Each pastor/In Solidum team should evaluate their location in the Archdiocese and implement the following protocols:
- Establish an area where social distancing is observed
- Strongly encourage masking and social distancing
- Hang signage indicating masking and social distancing are encouraged
- Evaluate space for the choir, and strongly recommend that those who are unvaccinated do not participate in the choir at this time
- Retain sanitization/face covering surrounding the distribution of Holy Communion
- The faithful are reminded that particular dispensations from the obligation to participate in Holy Mass remain in effect for people who are ill or who find themselves in other specific circumstances. Click here for more information.
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Prayer for the end of the Coronavirus crisis
Loving God, we come before you in our time of need. We lay before you our concerns and fears over the spread of the coronavirus. We know that you are mightier than all our fears and that the name of Jesus is the name above all other names. We ask, in the name of Jesus, that you stop the spread of the coronavirus. In your mercy, heal those who are sick and lead those who have died into your heavenly kingdom. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
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Spiritual Communion
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For those not able to receive the Eucharist at a public Mass, the faithful are encouraged to make an act of spiritual communion.
Spiritual Communion is a pious practice in the history of the Church. As the Archbishop stated, “it is simply to ask the Lord Jesus to give us the graces that would come to us were we able to receive his body and blood, soul and divinity sacramentally. We ask God to work in our hearts, the Holy Spirit to work in us, to do what he would be doing if we were to be receiving the sacrament.”
We therefore are encouraged to be resolved every Sunday, and every day, as we are suspended from our public assemblies, to make a spiritual communion. Above all, the Archbishop asks that we do this in our families and that we do it together.Elements of a Spiritual Communion
- Begin with the Sign of the Cross
- Scripture reading (e.g. Mass readings, found at usccb.org or listen/watch televised Mass. Options can be found here.)
- Optional: Share a reflection on the reading together (e.g. What do you hear God saying?)
- Shared prayer (e.g. Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary)
- Spontaneous prayer (e.g. Prayers from the heart, for each other and our community)
- Recite the Spiritual Communion prayer together, followed by a moment of silence to receive the Lord
- Conclude with the Sign of the Cross
Prayer for Spiritual CommunionMy Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there.
And unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.
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