The Diocese of Grand Rapids is undertaking a pastoral planning process to determine how to best serve the people of our diocese and support our priests. They are asking for your input as parishioners. All parishioners are invited to attend one of the upcoming sessions to review population, parish data, and provide thoughts regarding how we can best move into the future.   Meetings will be held in the ABC rooms on the following dates:  January 7, 2025: 7pm - 8:30pm  January 10, 2025: 10am - 11:30am  January 12, 2025: 2pm - 3:30pm  Your opinion matters!   If you have…

Unfortunately, churches, employees and parishioners are regularly targeted by spammers attempting to gain access to your device and financial institutions or credit cards. Please do not open or respond to these messages. Don’t fall for it! Here’s what to know and do: First, your pastor or associate pastor will never contact a parishioner directly with an emergency request for cash or gift cards. Messages asking parishioners to help fulfill a need would come through the parish’s or the diocese’s official communication channels or be accomplished through a collection approved by the diocese. If you’re not sure about a text or…

Office of Priestly Vocations With great joy, The Diocese of Grand Rapids is excited to announce we have five new seminarians for the Diocese of Grand Rapids! Anthony Duong will attend Mundelein Seminary. Matthew Critchell, Luke Norton, Mark Musgrave, and Payton Russman will all attend Saint John Vianney College Seminary. This gives the diocese a total of 24 seminarians for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.