Events

Safe Environment training is required for all diocesan, parish, and school employees and volunteers in contact with minors. All are welcome. Please arrive 10 minutes early to sign in to ensure the on-time beginning of the presentation.

The Red Mass is celebrated by Bishop Gruss and hosted by the Thomas More Society in celebration of all members of the legal profession and their families and friends. Attorneys, judges, families and friends of all faiths are welcome!

Immigration issues are in news headlines. We are called by Christ to honor the human dignity of the immigrant and the refugee. Join us on Wednesday, October 16 at 6:30-8:30PM in the Parish Center as we welcome Fr. Wayne Dziekan, Vicar for Hispanic Ministry for the Diocese of Gaylord. Fr. Dziekan will share insights into the root causes and on-the-ground realities of our broken immigration system and discuss the Catholic position on comprehensive immigration reform. Questions will be answered following the presentation.

Fr. Marcel Portelli invites you to join him on a memorable 11-day pilgrimage to Greece in the footsteps of St. Paul. We'll visit Philippi where Paul the Apostle delivered his first sermon and established the first church in Europe, Mars Hill in Athens where he spoke to the philosophers, Corinth and the site of St. Paul’s trial. We'll visit the House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus in Turkey where she lived until her Assumption. On our 3-day cruise we'll discover the captivating Greek islands of Mykonos, Crete, Santorini, and even pray in the grotto on Patmos Island where St.

Safe Environment training is required for all diocesan, parish, and school employees and volunteers in contact with minors. All are welcome.

Please arrive 10 minutes early to sign in to ensure the on-time beginning of the presentation.

Each year, the Saginaw Chapter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (SCNPM) hosts a "Saint Cecilia Sing" concert to celebrate St. Cecilia, our Patron Saint of Music. It is an uplifting afternoon of camaraderie, inspiration and praise where everyone is welcome to attend! The concert will be followed by light refreshments and fellowship for everyone. 

This year, the concert will take place on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 2pm at Ss. Francis and Clare Parish in Birch Run. 

This event is free of charge!

Lisa Gigliotti special guest speaker 

Author and former Administrative Law Judge Lisa K. Gigliotti will deliver a powerful message about The Courage to Honor the End of Life; a critical message with the likely reintroduction of bills to legalize assisted suicide in Michigan. For more than twenty-five years Lisa has lived with severe rheumatoid arthritis and myasthenia gravis. Through fourteen major surgeries and recurrent use of a wheelchair, Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.

This tour will be focused on Contemporary Bibles. From year 2000 to present time.

Our Diocese is again celebrating the Hispanic/Latino culture in our communities with a bi-lingual Mass, this year at St. Joseph Parish of Saginaw, at 4 PM with Bishop Robert Gruss presiding. All are welcome to join this celebration. A reception will follow immediately after Mass in the adjoining Parish Hall. Stay tuned for more details.