St. Mary, Cause of Our Joy

Saint Mary, Cause of our Joy Catholic Church. Serving the Westland community.

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The Parish of St. Mary, Cause of Our Joy, inspired by Mary’s “Yes” and led by the Holy Spirit, strives to be a faith-filled community, joyfully welcoming all to witness and to celebrate the Gospel. https://t.co/cnxN3spotx

Annunciation; Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1475

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The 2023-2024 Faith Formation is all wrapped up! We are so proud of all the hard work of our students! #stmarycooj

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Thank you
@BishopMonforton
for making the Nankin Family of Parishes Confirmation Mass so special!
#StMaryCOOJ #NankinFamilyofParishes #AOD #Catholic #ULG

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A huge thank you to those who came out to our Mercy in Action day. We even got Fr. Shafique to help with the clean up!

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We are thankful for the donation of a beautiful statue of St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta. We pray we can also have hearts open to the serving the poor.

#StMayCOOJ #StTeresaofCalcutta #MotherTeresaofCalcutta #servingthepoor #feedthepoor #nankinfamilyofparishes

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Since July, hefty monsoon rains have been hitting Pakistan, causing floods that kill people and livestock and destroy villages and infrastructures.

St. Mary,COOJ will be announcing an initiative to help in the near future.

https://t.co/K2Y6a7Psco

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Congratulations to Bien and Chemie on the baptism of their daughter Bria! #StMaryCOOJ

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We would like to congratulate Fr. Ken Mazur, PIME on 40th Anniversary as a priest!

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Our Marian Procession to close out May, the Month of Mary. It was a wonderful day to pray the rosary while walking around our property and down Wayne Road.
#StMaryCOOJ #nankinfamilyofparishes #archdioceseofdetroit #familyofparishes #marianprocession #rosary #rosaryinpublic

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To honor the end of the Month of Mary, we blessed our newly remodeled “Garden of Joy.”
#StMaryCOOJ #monthofmary #blessedvirginmary #stmary #catholicchurch #aod #unleashthegospel #marygarden

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With Ash Wednesday we start Lent. We also pray for peace in the Ukraine.
#StMayCOOJ #lent #40days #ashwednesday #catholic #detroitcatholic #prayforukraine #ashestoashes #repentandbelieveinthegospel

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Congratulations to Marlon and Archana on the baptism of their son Arlo!
#StMaryCOOJ

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Congratulations to Jared and Christine on the baptism of their daughter Avery! #StMaryCOOJ #Catholic #CatholicBaptism #DetroitCatholic

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Congratulations to Nicole and Garrett on the baptism of their daughter Bianca!
#StMaryCOOJ

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Family of Parishes Commissioning Mass for
West Wayne Vicariate Family 4 - Wayne, Westland, and
Garden City
#StMaryCOOJ #unleashthegospeldetroit
#familyofparishes #familyofparishesdetroit #utgdetroit
#archdioceseofdetroit

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This fall, the St. Paul School of Evangelization will be at St. Mary, Cause of Our Joy! Starting on Sat., Oct. 9th from 6 to 8pm.
https://t.co/xyhxpotdGH

#StMaryCOOJ #StPaulStreetEvangelization #sharethefaith #newevangelization #archdioceseofdetroit #unleashthegospel #UTGDetroit

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Congratulations to Kimberly and Michael on the Baptism of their daughter Kennedy!
#StMaryCOOJ

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Saturdays, starting this October! St. Paul Street Evangelization at St. Mary, Cause of Our Joy

https://t.co/Xhgk2Y4c6U

#StMaryCOOJ #StPaulStreetEvangelization #StreetEvangelization #UnleashtheGospel

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Fr. Shafique Masih, Fr. Sean Bonner, Fr. Joe Plawecki, and Fr. Larry Zurawski joined together to to celebrate our new Family. #FamilyOfParishes #StMaryCOOJ #UTG #UnleashTheGospel #ArchdioceseOfDetroit

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Fr. Shafique would like to thank everyone who donated to the Chalice and Ciborium sets that our parishioners gave to him to commemorate him becoming a citizen of the USA. #StMaryCOOJ

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Our community mourns the loss of Luella Plante.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord,
And let perpetual light shine upon her.
May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Amen

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