Diocese of Lansing Diocese of Lansing

My sisters and brothers in the Lord,Welcome to our final week of Disciples Together on the Way. Thanks be to God! And thanks to you for joining me on this pilgrimage over the past year. It’s been a privilege to have your company as, together, we’ve attempted to acquire the habits of being a disciple of Jesus Christ, our Alpha and our Omega.Hence, appropriately, we end with the person Jesus Christ as explained to the world in Chapter 1 or, as it is often known, the Prologue of the Gospel of Sa...

Welcome to Week 50 of Disciples Together on the Way with Bishop Boyea. This is the penultimate week of our year-long pilgrimage as aspiring Christian disciples. Here’s Bishop Boyea's challenge for this week: "When we pick up our Bible, let us read the First Epistle of Saint John. It’s short. Only five chapters. But it packs quite a punch in terms of teaching Christians how to “abide in God” underscoring, as he does, the division of light and darkness, love and hate, life and death, God a...

Dear friends, over the centuries the Church has cultivated a discipline of listening to the Lord's Voice through Sacred Scripture. She calls it Lectio Divina or "Divine Reading". It's nourished many disciples all the way to heaven. Hence, this week's challenge: Spend at least 15 minutes each day praying the basic path of Lectio Divina that so many saints have trod.Yours in Christ, + Bishop Earl BoyeaBishop of Lansing

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Last week we revisited a challenge of strengthening a particular habit of discipleship in our life. Of course, I think it goes without saying how important repetition is in forming good habits. This week I want to extend a similar challenge that has the potential of becoming a powerful foundation for all our holy habits. This week our discipleship challenge is to memorize one of the Psalms.Why is memorization important, you might ask? Well, day in a...

November 25, 2022My sisters and brothers in the Lord,Welcome to Week 47 of Disciples Together on the Way! We’ve made it to Week 47! Only four weeks left in our entire program. We’ve made it to the final stretch. So, for that, I say WELL DONE! God bless you.If you’ve missed a week or two do not grow weary but start back up and pray that God give you the persistence to march on.For inspiration, we can look towards our friends the saints as examples of perseverance. We’ve spoken about Saint Moni...

Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Lord,Welcome to this week’s Disciples Together on the Way Challenge. This is our final week focusing on the Corporal Works of Mercy! In the Book of Deuteronomy, the Lord tells us, “There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore, I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.” (Dt. 15:10-11) Since there will always be the poor, there will always be the opportunities to serve and support them.During thi...