Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish

Does God exist? What am I supposed to do with my life? Am I loved? How do I forgive? Why is Church boring?

Have you ever asked yourself some of the big questions in life and haven't found answers that are satisfactory? We would like to invite you to a meal, a short video and small group discussions where you can say anything, ask anything and just ponder the big quetsions of life. 

We want to meet you. We want you to ask any question that is on your heart. Really. Just Come. 
Monday, October 2, 2017 at 6:30pm in our Parish Family Center (corner of Cedar Street and Maplehill in Lansing,MI). You are welcome to just come, but registering helps us know how much food we need to prepare. Register here!

Register Now to disover the foundational truth that God has a unique calling for your family and the grace to live it out passionately.  All are welcome to a powerful two day event led by Dr. Peter Howard and his wife Chantal, founders of Heroic Families, on Saturday September 30 & October 1 here at IHM in the Parish Family Center.  This event is designed to awaken and empower families to discover and pursue their heroic calling within their family.  Peter & Chantal will "keep it real" drawing from their personal experience of the challenges of family life today.  Anyone can benefit from this message.  Whether you are a parent, grandparent, married, engaged couple, dating or single, this event is for you.  We are all connected to a family and part of the critical mission of the family.

Day 1: Saturday, September 30 from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm
Day 2: Sunday, October 1 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Topics Covered: 

• What is God's unique purpose for your family?
• Family Healing and Creating a Culture of Mercy in the Home
• The Spiritual Anchors of Today's Heroic Family
• Pursuing Your Why Now With Courage and Passion-What families can start doing today to take the next right steps with trust, courage, and passion
• Mary's Triumph, Our Hope

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Parish Case Statement

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Mission Statement
As a Christ-centered and Spirit-led faith community, fed by Word and Sacrament, we strive to bring the “Good News” of God’s love into all areas of our lives, that we may draw others to Christ.

IHM-St. Casimir School Mission Statement

IHM-St. Casimir Catholic School honors and respects the total and unique person created by God in each of our students as they discover God’s gifts spiritually, intellectually, and socially.
 
Immaculate Heart of Mary is in its final two years of its most recent capital campaign, “Building Together With Christ”.  Pledge redemption for this campaign continues through the summer of 2018.  Elements of this campaign included: 
 
1:      Renovate our North School building to remove all asbestos from ceilings, floors and windows, replace windows with new energy efficient windows, install new fire alarm system and electrical, install new ceilings and flooring.  Approx. cost $742,600
 
2:      Renovation of North School mechanical system, replacing existing steam boiler with hot water system. Approx. cost $230,000
 
3:      Build a new “school gym/multi-purpose facility” connecting with a walkway to our current Parish Family Center to meet the needs of our future spiritual, educational, and social needs of our parish. Approx. costs: $802,000
 
The goal of the “Building Together With Christ” campaign (conducted in-house) was set at $1.8 million; $1.2 was pledged.  Although monthly campaign envelopes are included in the parish envelope packet, more aggressive redemption reminders were not sent out, which may have impacted the level of pledge redemption.  Most critical of these campaign elements were #1 and #2, which have been completed with the campaign funds collected. 
 
Element #3, the construction of a “school gym/multi-purpose facility” was set aside due to the shortfall in funds raised.   The feasibility study indicates that some parishioners may have stopped paying on or decreased their pledge once they learned that pledges fell short of goal, and a sufficient amount of funds were not raised to construct the gym. 
 
Parish-share funds from the Witness To Hope campaign will go toward finishing out the former campaign case, the construction of the school gym/multi-purpose facility” – including a sprinkler system and wood floor for the gym - with excess funds going to a IHM-St. Casimir Catholic School Endowment Fund to be held at the Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of Lansing. 
 
Under this plan our parish would seek to raise $1,800,000.  Of this amount, $1,059,775 would remain in our parish to fund our parish needs (described above) and the balance would support the wider Church efforts as outlined in the Witness to Hope campaign materials. 

For more information go to witnesstohope.net

We would love to get to know you and join our parish community!   Click in this box!

Our Alpha courses have been incredibly fruitful and faith building. Many people have talked about how they made new friends, got to talk about things freely and not be judged, how they came to know Jesus in a deeper way and experience the power and work of the Holy Spirit. 

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek Alphabet-it is meant to be only the beginning. A beginning means something follows - so we are meant to continue this journey that mayhave started with Alpha - or may have started before Alpha. Either way, we are meant to walk with each other and help one another get to heaven. 

Here are some ideas: 

Visit the Adoration Chapel and simply have a heart to heart with the Lord. 

Attend one of Leah Hinman's Bible Studies

Participate in one of our many "E-cells" groups

Say hello to the people around you at Mass

Help with Alpha in November 2017