St. Patrick Catholic Parish

St. Patrick Catholic Parish of White Lake is a Catholic faith community that celebrates Life in Christ. As we are nourished and led by the Holy Spirit, our common Baptismal mission is: to evangelize; to proclaim and to teach the Word of God; to praise and to worship God in Word and Sacrament; and to live His Word through loving service to ALL people. On this active faith journey, we are called to be disciples who affirm, heal and forgive in the love of Christ. We are glad that you are here on this journey with us!

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The Disciple Maker Index Survey is Now Open and we need your help! 

Please help us by completing a 10-15 minute survey that will ask you to reflect on your own spiritual growth and enable you to provide feedback on our parish's efforts to help you grow. All responses will be confidential and the parish will only recieve information about the community as a whole. The information you provide will be invaluable to Father David an our various ministries as we plan for the future and strive to be the best disciples we can be. We will be sharing the results of the survey this spring/summer. Thank you for helping with this important project!

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Parish Office Hours:

Monday-Friday 8am-3:30pm

 

Reconciliation (Confession) Times:

Saturday 11am-12pm
 

Eucharistic Adoration

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

St. John Paul II Perpetual Adoration Chapel (at Holy Spirit in Highland)

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Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Our Lady of Guadalupe Presentation

Monday, December 11th at 6:30pm
All are invited to attend a special presentation about "The Message, the History, the Science and the Miracle inside the 'Tilma' of The Virgin of Guadalupe" by Cesar A Cancino Rueda. We hope to see you there!

Join us for a celebration waiting for the birth of Jesus on Sunday, December 17th from 2-3:30pm with fun games, delicious food, and a time of worship.  Bring a gift to donate to families in need. No need to wrap, they will be taken to local agencies for distribution to mothers in need. Everyone is invited! All ages, bring the whole family. 

Suggested gift items: crib size mattress protectors, girls newborn sleepers (non-fleece), boys 12 month outfits, receiving blankets (gender neutral), swaddle blankets (velcro closures, gender neutral), long sleeved white onesies, outfits (premie, 6 month-2T), baby shampoo, pacifiers, teethers, bottles (no liners)

Hello,

My name is Fr. Craig Giera, and I am the Director of Priestly Vocations for the Archdiocese of Detroit. You may have heard that we have a vocation crisis going on in our world, but that’s not exactly true. God has not stopped calling men to the priesthood. Rather, we have a hearing problem or a listening problem. Because this world is so loud and noisy, men aren’t hearing God’s generous offer to become a priest. And because of that, that means less priests serve you.

In just ten years, here in the Archdiocese of Detroit, there is going to be half the number of active priests than those serving today. That means less Masses being said, less confessions being heard, priests not there to be able to celebrate in the joys, and to be with you there through the struggles. I don’t say this to cause despair, but rather to stir up that gift of hope that was given to us at our baptism, that theological virtue that says we have already won in Christ. God will provide the grace that we need to accept this challenge. Yet, we need to do our part.

Our response is prayer. Prayer is powerful and not a consolation prize. I have consecrated the vocations department, all its work, and all the young men in the Archdiocese of Detroit who do have a vocation to the priesthood to her Immaculate Heart, that she will protect and guide them. But I have also committed to saying an extra Rosary every single day — the Luminous Mysteries for priestly vocations — and I invite you to do the same. If you can’t do it every day, maybe at least once a week. Can you imagine that if even just half the Archdiocese prayed a Rosary a day for vocations, the generous response we would receive? You can register on our website at www.detroitpriestlyvocations.com if you would like to make an ongoing commitment.

Our second response is to encourage and invite our grandsons, sons, nephews— someone in our life that we think has the characteristics to make a good and holy priest. It would be great to sit them down and make it a sacred moment, a special moment. Saying, “I believe you would make a good priest. I’ll pray with you on that. I’ll be here for you.” You would be a St. Barnabas to them, one who offers encouragement!

I’m so excited to share with you our website at www.detroitpriestlyvocations.com. In it, you’ll find many resources that will help support priestly vocations. There’s also many resources for men who are discerning the call to the priesthood. Check out our podcast, “Men of the Hearts”; we talk to priests about their vocation stories.

Brothers and sisters, St. Paul reminds us that hope does not disappoint because the love of Christ has been poured forth into our hearts. Together let us hope, but also to pray, invite, and encourage young men to consider the priesthood. I’m so happy to be here with you this week to pray for more vocations.

God bless, 

Rev. Craig Giera
 

Blessings During Communion

Why are Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion not permitted to bless? 

Recently, we have adopted the new policies from the Archdiocese of Detroit (AOD) on this topic. For many years our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (EMHC) have given a blessing to anyone approaching with their arms crossed during Communion. But, recently we found out the AOD teaches that giving a blessing is reserved to the priest during Mass. 

As Catholics, we are accustomed to blessing one another, especially family, which is great outside of the Mass. We have adapted the instruction for EMHC's for when someone approaches with their arms crossed. They are encouraged to not make the sign of the cross and to not give a blessing. Instead they are asked to use phrases like, "Peace be with you", "Receive Jesus in your heart", "Jesus loves you", or something similar as long as it is not a blessing. 

As always, the priests give blessing to anyone approaching with their arms crossed and anyone is welcome to proceed to the Communion line of the priest. We hope you understand the new proceedure and that you will be supportive of our efforts to follow the teaching of the Church.