Our Lady of Refuge Parish

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PASTOR …. Fr. Ron Richards

Assisting Priests ….
Fr. Banazak, Fr. Brooks, Fr. Sabadell

Street Address

3700 Commerce Road
Orchard Lake, Michigan 48324

Mailing Address

3725 Erie Drive
Orchard Lake, Michigan 48324

Telephone

248.682.0920

Weekend Mass Schedule:

Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Livestream Mass: Sundays at 9:30 a.m.

Link to Livestream

Weekday Mass Schedule:

8:15 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
Adoration of the Eucharist Fridays following the 8:15 a.m. Mass until 11:00 a.m.

Holy Days:

8:15 a.m. during school, otherwise
9:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Saturday 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

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Over the next few weeks, you will be hearing about the upcoming ”His Heart, Our Hands” Program at Our Lady of Refuge Church. This effort is very important as we move forward with the mission and vision of Our Lady of Refuge Church. We, as a parish family, have changed so many lives in our community! In order to continue our mission and ministries, we encourage all parishioners to spend time in prayer and discussion with your family reflecting on the work we do. Our special Commitment Weekend will be celebrated on September 23rd/24th. If you have any questions regarding the “His Heart, Our Hands” Program, please feel free to contact the parish office.

2023 Catholic Services Appeal

Link to donate on behalf of Our Lady of Refuge to CSA 2023 through the AOD website
Or if you prefer, scan the accompanying QR Code from your phone or tablet
Link to Fr. Ron’s August 13th CSA Update

Stewardship of Treasure

September 17, 2023

Hi All,

Today I once again want to speak to all of you about the Stewardship of Treasure.

The Our Lady of Refuge community has approximately 900 registered families listed as members of the parish. I am aware we have several families who come here regularly who are not officially registered in our parish. These numbers are the families that actually attend, if one wants to look at the size of the parish, we need to look at who attends. So, we have approximately 300 families/households that attend mass on a weekly basis. This is where our weekly offertory is generated. What we put down for our weekly offering, we need to pay our bills, and such is $12,200. Last year we did make that mark and slightly more, that would mean we brought in around $680,000.

The average income for our households is approximately $150,000/year. This is an average so some households are more and some households are less! Based on the amount of money we took in last year and the average income, each household, on average contributed $43.50/week. This works out to 2.2% of the total income. As you recall in my article last week, I spoke about the 4-3-2-1 model. Under that model, if on average everyone contributed 4% of their household tithe, we would be bringing into our collection, weekly, from each household $90/ week. If that were to happen, our weekly offertory would increase from $12,200 to $27,000/week. An increase in this would allow us as a parish to do so much more for all of you in helping you grow in your faith.

As we kick off our campaign to increase our offertory, next weekend you will be asked to fill out a commitment card of what you will contribute. I ask you to prayerfully this week, look into your hearts and see what you can truly do to increase your weekly offering for your second family of Our Lady of Refuge Parish and School.

I thank you all for the current generosity of your Stewardship of Treasure and hope you can prayerfully consider a most subtle increase.

Peace
Fr Ron Richards

Liturgy of the Word for Children

Children between the ages 4 and 7 are invited to attend this program through the school year. During the 11:30am Mass, children between the ages of 4 and 7 will be dismissed to the Social Hall to hear the Word of God proclaimed specifically to them and at their level. This is a great way to introduce your young children to Bible stories and to get them participating at Mass.