Queens still has one remaining Mass for today’s holy day at 5:30pm.    Other options are still available in the area for those who are at work today:

6pm, Our Lady of Fatima

7pm, St. John, St. Rita and St. Catherine Laboure

This is the feast day for all those who have gone before us who have now passed Heaven’s gate and entered into the Father’s House.  We pray that will be all of us one day.  We pray for them and they pray for us in the Communion of Saints.

November is a month dedicated to prayers for the dead, as they are remembered and prayed for in every Mass.  Please record the names of your deceased loved ones in the Book of Remembrance that will be near the statue of the Blessed Mother all November long.  

Our Mass for the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed on All Souls Day will be at 8:00am tomorrow, Saturday November 2nd. 

Tomorrow at 5pm, Queens will host its annual Mass of Remembrance where we invite families who have experienced a loss in the last year to come and light a candle in their memory.  The names of all those buried from Queens since November 2023 will be called out.  Then, we will invite anyone who is grieving to come and light a candle.  

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light sine upon them.  

Make sure you set your clocks and alarms back an hour before going to bed Saturday night or you will be late for everything on Sunday!

Families with children in Sunday Faith Formation, don’t forget this week the program meets in Vincentian Hall at Church, NOT in the school.  This is for the Annual All Saints Party.  The children are invited to dress up as their favorite saints, parents too!  (you can still come even if you don’t have a saints costume).  There will be games, prizes and snacks!    

Continuing a tradition that began here in 2012, you and your family and friends are invited to an Election Eve Holy Hour and Mass this Monday November 4th in the church.  The Eucharistic Holy Hour starts at 6pm and Mass will be at 7 o’clock. 

This is not a partisan event.  We are praying for free and fair elections.  We are praying for our country and for all of its inhabitants.  In this time of political discord and wars breaking out in various places across the world, we pray for our military and for peace.  

God bless America!  

Students at Queens School are taught what it means to be a good Catholic Christian and a good citizen.  We honor those who serve and that is why, on behalf of our student body and faculty, I invite ALL of our local veterans to be our honored guest for the school Mass at 9:00am on Friday November 8th.  This includes those who served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard and the Seabees.    

“Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”           – President Abraham Lincoln

Two hard to fill hours remain open on the Divine Mercy Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel Schedule:

Sundays at 4am

Monday at 3am  

Our Queens goal for the diocesan campaign for Catholic education is $2,600,000, representing 1.25x our annual offertory.  The funds raised at all 72 parishes of our diocese will go to increase financial aid and scholarships for families using our Catholic schools and giving raises and retention bonuses to Catholic school teachers.  20% of S3 raised at Queens stays at Queens.  This would be over half a million dollars that we will bank toward the support of the administration and programs of the Jackson Catholic Schools.  Any amount we raise over goal will stay in the parish.   

Though a specific gift amount is suggested in the Bishop’s letter, every gift is optional, and every ‘ask’ for your gift is ‘aspirational’.  Please consider the specific gift amount requested as an amount to pledge and pay over time on a schedule of your choosing, not as something you have to give now.  All of us are able to give more when we extend the gift for a period of years. 

The Catholic Foundation would love to hear from you if you wish to discuss gifts of stock or real estate, planned gifts or IRA distributions.  I would be happy to put you in touch with them.

I am asking that you place pledge card envelopes in the offertory collection at Mass or drop them off at the parish office.  Please do not stamp them and mail them to the Catholic Foundation.  Checks should be made payable to ‘Stewardship for Saints and Scholars.’ 

This is a ’boutique’ campaign allowing you to make your commitment however you like:  how much to pledge, when to start giving, how often you will be billed, how to pay, etc.  The power is in your hands. 

Thank you to all those who have made their commitment to the S3 campaign.  We had 717 donors during the Witness to Hope Campaign of 2016.  We have a long way to go before we surpass that participation rate.  Here again is the link to the S3 campaign video:

CAMPAIGN PRAYER

Lord, everything we have is a gift from you. 
You call us to receive your gifts with thanks,  
to develop these gifts fully, 
and to share them generously.
Through the Stewardship for Saints and Scholars campaign
help every young person in the Diocese of Lansing
see your truth, beauty, and goodness;
help families to raise their children in the Faith;
and help parishes make a truly Catholic education
available to all.
May the work of this campaign bear abundant fruit
in the Saints and Scholars you are raising up for the future.
We ask these blessings through Christ our Lord.
Amen.   

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, pray for us 

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching” (Heb 13:8-9).

Fr. Tim MacDonald

Pastor

Queen of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church

606 S. Wisner St.  Jackson, Michigan 49203

(517) 783-2748  www.queenschurch.com