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As a Lenten resource...join us for this movie preview, and experience a personal journey with Christ, as we walk through the modern-day sites in the Holy Land, and see the actual places where Jesus ministered over 2,000 years ago. DATE: Wednesday, February 28th at 4:00PM Contact: Socorro Truchan 269-903-0199 or struchan@diokzoo.org

Bishop Bradley's monthly column from February 2018 - Does Lent qualify as one of the reasons why February, for me, is one of my favorite months? It certainly does, because Lent brings us an “early Spring”; and Springtime is (at least for me) the best season of the year.

Bishop Bradley released the following statement in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 15th and the National Day for Racial Healing on January 16th.

For the first time in years, 73 to be exact, Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten season, coincides with St. Valentine’s Day, a day generally devoted to candy hearts and true love. But is it really so unusual for the two days to collide? What better day than the day synonymous with love to begin our 40-day Lenten journey focused on the greatest love story of all - the love God showed His children by sending His only Son as our Redeemer?

Bishop Bradley will celebrate Mass with Anointing of the Sick, in observance of the World Day of the Sick on Monday, February 12, 2018, at Noon in the Lawrence Education Center Auditorium at Borgess Medical Center,1521 Gull Road Kalamazoo.

Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Rice Bowl offers Catholics in the United States a way to encounter Lent, to encounter the causes of migration and displacement, and to learn about the challenges faced by families around the world in their Dioceses, parishes and homes.

For 45 years March for Life in Washington D.C. has been the signature event for the cause noted as the largest pro-life peaceful protest. This year, Catholics from across the Diocese participated in national and local events to pray for an end to abortion. Several groups from the Diocese braved the bitter cold in the Windy City and joined with an estimated 6,000 people for the March for Life Chicago, held January 14th. Hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors from around the country traveled to Washington, D.C. for the National March for Life, including groups from Hackett Catholic Prep, Lake Michigan Catholic High School and several parishes in the Diocese.