Easter was always a special time at St. Albert’s, starting with Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, then moving on toward Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Finally Easter Sunday. Always a beautiful time of the year at St. Albert the Great Church.

Five couples celebrated special Anniversaries for World Marriage Day by renewing their vows this Sunday, (from right to left) Mary and Scott Ferguson, Linda and Michael Magnone, Idel Alfonso and Irene Olivera, James and Judith Freas, Roxanne and Michael Moranty, and not present, Albert and Virginia Suarez. Spanning 35 years to 71 years, all couples attribute the success of their…

St. Albert’s tradition of the warm and beautiful Christmas display continues. A re-enactment of the Nativity was on the agenda this year as local children did a wonderful job while dressed in costume and performing in a Church.

The beauty of the St. Albert altar and the warmth of Christmas came together annually in December at St. Albert’s but perhaps never as much as in 2017 with this magnificent display of nature and nativity.

St. Albert’s new Facebook page would go live on this date in 2015. The description that they used for Facebook was the following: St Albert the Great parish in Dearborn Heights is: A family of Faith Trusting in the Eucharist; living and sharing God’s message with all.

There is an old saying about “all good things” and the adage certainly applies to St. Albert’s. The magnificent parish that was literally built from the ground up by its parishioners in 1955 would be closing and the first definitive news of this came way back in 2012. On Feb 20th 2012 the news rang out that 16 Catholic parishes…

The first suggestion that parishes may close came in late 2011, and while it did not make anything official, it did suggest that big changes would be heading toward the Detroit area. The Archdiocese of Detroit made their recommendations known regarding the closing or merging of area parishes based on the research of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council. The goal is…