WELCOME FR.CRAIG 
Getting to Know Fr. Craig
I entered Seminary in 2010. Prior to entering Seminary, I worked for almost 13 years.  My college background prior to entering Seminary was Business, Accounting and Finance. I was fortunate at the age of 18 to be hired by a small consulting company. I began as an office clerk, and in my time there I was able to learn a great deal.  I was eventually working as the Assistant to the Human Resource Manager, then worked as Systems Analyst and when I left the company I worked in Systems Support and as a Recruiter.
After leaving the consulting firm, I worked for General Motors for more than six years. In a strange turn of events, I transitioned to the Quick Service Business. Who would have thought a guy that almost always worked in financial work, would wind up running Restaurants? Quick Service Restaurants were very challenging. Immediately after being trained, I turned around a unit in Southgate. From there, I was asked to “fix” a unit in Allen Park. This unit had enormous problems, gaping holes in the HVAC roof units, the main drain line was no longer functional, the store was in severe disrepair and the employee morale was very low. In the end, working on average of 80-100 hours per/week, a great deal was fixed and repaired and morale improved. The unit stabilized and was making money. However, after 18 months, I realized I could not continue to work nearly 100 hours per/week permanently. I also realized that was really the level of commitment needed for the unit to continue to progress. So, I decided it was best for me to go back to doing the work I did best and returned to financial and business analytical work.
I was then hired to work for a multi-national insurance and financial corporation; the intricacies of Insurance were challenging.  While doing this work, in prayer, I thought perhaps the Lord had a different plan for me. I became much more involved with my home parish, St. Vincent Ferrer. I began assisting as a Lector and an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist. I prayed in a deeper way, for the first time in my life, and desired to know what God’s will for me was. With that, I spoke to my Pastor (Fr. John Esper) who encouraged me to contact the Vocations office for the Archdiocese.
After some time, I decided to call, Fr. Tim Birney, the Director of Priestly Vocations, at the time, and I decided to visit the Seminary for a discernment weekend. It was a beautiful weekend. I could see what life was like, living in the Seminary. Soon after I met with Fr. Birney again, he offered me an application to enter Seminary. I completed the application process and I was fortunate to be approved to enter Sacred Heart Seminary. I resigned from working and entered Seminary in 2010.  
I spent three years studying Philosophy and living in the college of Sacred Heat Major Seminary. I graduated from College, in 2013, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy. Like all men who now study to be a Priest for the Archdiocese of Detroit, I immediately began studies in Theology at Creighton’s University, within the Institute for Priestly Formation - specifically, the Spirituality of a Diocesan Priest. I then returned to Sacred Heart and began Theology in the fall of 2013, as a candidate for Holy Orders and finished with a Master’s Degree in Divinity from Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Concurrently, I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Sacred Theology awarded from the Angelicum in Rome. Thanks-be-to-God, I was ordained June 3, 2017.
I served as the temporary Administrator of Sacred Heart in Auburn Hills. Just prior I was serving at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rochester, MI.  Before that, I was serving as the Associate Pastor at St. Paul on the Lake Parish, first for Msgr. Pat Halfpenny, and the final year for Fr. Jim Bilot. I have been so very blessed in these assignments.  All of these Parishes were wonderful parishes and the people are such a gift. 
I pray that I will be a good servant to all of you at St. Anne’s Catholic Church.  I promise to keep you in my prayers. Please, if you would, pray for me.
 
Fr. Craig Marion



READINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

23^rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

1^st Reading—Isaiah 35: 4-7a— God comes to save us. The ears of those who are deaf will be opened, and the tongue of those who are mute will sing.

Responsorial Psalm: 146: 6-7, 8-9, 9-10— “Praise the Lord, my soul!”

2^nd Reading—James 2: 1-5—Treat everyone as equal before the Lord, rich and poor alike. Did not God choose the poor to inherit the kingdom?

Gospel Acclamation—Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! “Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the kingdom and cured every disease among the people.” Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Gospel—Mark 7: 31-37—A deaf man with a speech impediment was brought to Jesus who healed him. Jesus ordered the crowds to tell no one, but they went about proclaiming the Lord’s wonders.

 

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

1) Let us pray for the Church:
          Open our ears to your word, O God, and our mouths to sing your
praises.  Bless all priests, deacons and bishops, especially our new pastor, Fr. Craig.
          
2) Let us pray for our world:
Loving God, bring peace to our troubled world. May those who serve in positions of leadership, guide and direct us in the right path. Keep those serving in the military in your tender care.
          

3) Let us pray for Fr. Gerry:
          We pray that Fr. Gerry will enjoy a long and happy retirement.
          

4) Let us pray for the sick of our community:
          Touch with your healing power our brothers and sisters who are
                   ill, especially --
          Aiden McLaren     Janice Rollins       Mary Phelan     Barbara Funke
          Daren McLaughlin          Patricia Claya       Christopher Lee
          Pat Pappas            Dorothy Massy     Joan Ball     Elaine Corkins
          Reagan Bahling    Greg Kowalski      Herman Greif   JerryBellefeuille
          And for all who have asked for our prayers.
          

5) Let us remember the dead:
          May our loved ones inherit the kingdom prepared for them, especially --      
(5:00 Mass)  Frederick & Mariah Andre, Richard & Cecily Siring,   Emma Jane Reid
 (8:30 Mass)  Mike, Michael & Steve Allen , Frances Rimi
(10:30 Mass)  Patricia & Earl Neal, Mary & Leonard Methner
          We pray to the Lord…



 

ANNOUNCEMENTS – SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

 

1. The Parish offices will be closed on Monday, September 6^th, Labor Day and reopen on Tuesday.

 

2. Mass on Monday, Labor Day will be at 9 a.m. not 7 p.m.

 

3. From the Knights of Columbus:

 

• Firewood is available, $85 a face cord, $95 with delivery.
• The Tom Yezak golf outing is next weekend, Sept. 12^th.
• There will be a Euchre Tournament Sat. Sept. 18^th 6-8:30 p.m.
• Frank’s garden vegetable stand will be open again next weekend.

     For more information on these events, please see the parish bulletin.
 

4. From our Religious Ed. Director, it’s time to sign up for classes. Please stop in the parish office or go to our website and sign up electronically.

 

5. The quilting and craft group will meet next Saturday, Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Solanus Hall.

 

6. Our next Saturday Potluck is October 2^nd.

 

7. (Sunday) Please join us in Hardy Hall for coffee, donuts and fellowship.