Hi Chuck I can’t begin to tell you how great it was to talk with you on the phone! Truly memorable. Enclosed are two pics. One is my 2003 fiftieth anniversary, generation C5 Corvette in screaming millennium yellow with a slightly modified LS1 engine. A cold air induction system and a Corsa exhaust system have been added. the other is…

Please remember that due to the pandemic, things are moving very slow. Below is the latest info that we have. Thursday, March 18. Went through the CYO spreadsheets and found the needed trophy information for softball, baseball, and basketball. Wednesday, March 17. CYO Detroit has the trophy records on excel spreadsheets and will be sending the information to us soon….

St. Maria Goretti parish, the combination of 3 parishes (St. John, St. Sebastian, St. Albert) officially took place in August of 2020, however the first chronicle that actually referred to itself as St. Maria Goretti parish took place in March of the following year. We pray for God’s blessing on this new parish.

In late summer of 2020 a collaboration began on the “Class of ’75” facebook group between about 35 students from that class (and also input from students who were not on facebook). The class would collaborate on different moments from their time together at St. Albert’s, and when all the different collaborations were completed, would put them together in a…

In the summer and early fall of 2020, with the news of the pending merger of St. Sebastian, St. John the Baptist, and St. Albert the Great Parishes finalized, things began to move very quickly. The new combined parish would be called St. Maria Goretti Parish (St. Maria was 11 years old when she was killed and she forgave her…

It is with great delight that I have the honor to write the introduction to this book. What this has provided for me is the opportunity to take the time and remember my years as a teacher at St. Albert’s in what, dare I say, were magical years. I substitute taught in the winter of 1973. And then was hired…

On July 20, 2020 Archbishop Allen Vigneron announced in a decree that St. Albert’s, St. John the Baptist, and St. Sebastian would be merged into a new parish called St Maria Goretti Parish. One of the strongest arguments for the merger was the trend in the last ten years of registered households in the three parishes – St. Sebastian by…

The last St. Albert chronicle was put out during the Corona virus pandemic and the churches in Michigan were closed. With that in mind most of the articles are about the pandemic. Without a mass or events, there seemed little reason to put out a weekly chronicle so it says right at the top that it will be the last…

I’m going to devote my minute this week to the recent parish merger information. It’s been two weeks since we learned that the most likely outcome of the merger of our three parishes is that Saint Sebastian will be the site for our new parish which will have a new name and that Saint Sebastian, Saint Albert’s and Saint John’s…

By way of reminder, our Transition Team continues to meet every other week to prepare for the merger of our three parishes and please note that July 1st, 2020 is the date we are planning for this to happen. Once our work is done, it goes to the Archdiocese and Archbishop to be reviewed and then approved or modified before…