Worship

(formerly The Education Commission)

We will meet once per month on the last Wednesday of the month, and are flexible regarding evening meeting hours or afternoon meeting hours, depending upon your schedule!

Following is our Mission Statement:

The Discipleship Formation Commission plans for the overall parish Christian formation by addressing the educational and formational needs in the areas of adult faith formation, family life, and youth ministry. We will focus on the educational needs which promote the Catholic Christian formation of the parish family.

If you are interested in helping advance the teaching mission of the church, we invite you to join The Discipleship Formation Commission!

Please contact Anita McCabe: anitamccabe58@gmail.com, to join our team!

Lisa Blanek
Coordinator, Worship
248.418.7212
lblanek@olorcc.org

Altar Care is a ministry that is essential and very behind the scene. We will be meeting on Tuesdays in the evening at 7pm weekly to offer our beautiful worship space some tender loving care. Pew racks need to be straightened, cobwebs removed from our statuary, pictures and furniture dusted. Clearing out of old reading materials left in the narthex and book racks. Cleaning and filling our holy water fonts and sacred vessels. This takes an hour or less depending on the number of hands available. Please contact Lisa Marie if you are interested at lblanek@olorcc.org or call 248-418-7212. It really is a lovely way to spend some very special time with Jesus.

Lisa Blanek
Coordinator, Worship
248.418.7212
lblanek@olorcc.org

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our volunteers that help to make our Sunday experiences so welcoming and beautiful! You have blessed us in abundance throughout this calendar year and we pray for your enthusiastic support in this new 2023! May you all have a holy, healthy and hope filled year! Our Lady of Refuge, pray for us! Jesus, our Lord and Savior, save the world!

Advent Tea Thank You!!!

Our theme this year was a sharing of our spiritual journey as “spiritual mothers and daughters.” Kate Kuzak and I were truly overwhelmed by the response of those that attended in both their financial generosity and willingness to share their experiences, strengths and hopes. We raised $ 970.00 for St. Vincent DePaul! All of us were blessed with a new admiration for the role as daughters of an amazing Holy Mother, Mary, and our beloved Lord, Jesus Christ! Knowing that we need each other to become the women that God has blessed us to be. May our Almighty and Loving God bless all of his children throughout this new 2023 year and may we strive to be more like Mary everyday!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Lisa Blanek
Coordinator, Worship
248.418.7212
lblanek@olorcc.org

Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist require a profound and reverent faith in the real presence of Jesus! This ministry does require training. Paul Scheer, Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist, and amazing carpenter has created a beautiful cross for our ministers to wear during our Masses. When you come to Mass prepared to serve, please sign in the sign-in book and select one of these beautiful crosses. After Mass, please return the cross to the sign-in book for use during the following Masses. Thank you, Paul for your awesome dedication toward this ministry!

This ministry is very precious to me! I have had the privilege of serving as an Extraordinary Minister to those receiving the Eucharist for the very first time both children and adults, those that are homebound, in jail, nursing homes and hospitals. I cannot express properly the depth of gratitude these individuals have shared, nor can I put into words what my own heart and soul experiences in these heavenly moments.

Consider prayerfully this ministry. Contact me via email lblanek@olorcc.org, call 248-418-7212 or see me, Lisa Marie, following any of our Masses. God will bless you!

Lisa Blanek
Coordinator, Worship
248.418.7212
lblanek@olorcc.org