Order of Malta

Michigan Area News

Michigan Area joins Maltese-American community at 16th Annual “Festa il-Vitorja” in Detroit

September 11, 2025
Mass was celebrated by Msgr. Charles Kosanke, pastor of Most Holy Trinity. Read More

Michigan Area’s September 6 “Into the Fire” takes food, prayers to Detroit streets

September 11, 2025
With food and clothing donated by Michigan Area members and others, “Into the Fire” volunteers drive the Malta Mobile Ministries Van into Detroit’s poorest and most devastated areas, seeking those in need. Read More

Michigan Area holds September First Saturday – with baby!

September 11, 2025
The event was held at St. Owen Catholic Church in Bloomfield Hills, where Michigan Area chaplain Msgr. Michael LeFevre, ChM, is pastor. Read More

Lourdes Pilgrimage “does not exhaust, but exemplifies” Order’s mission, archbishop tells Michigan Area members at August 14 “Lourdes Experience”

August 21, 2025
The Order of Malta’s motto – “Tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum” – represents “two aspects of a single charism,” said Detroit Archbishop Emeritus Allen H. Vigneron, GCChC, principal chaplain to the Michigan Area. Read More

Michigan Area members prepare over 100 lunches at St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen

August 14, 2025
Located in the People’s Community Church, St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen serves about 30,000 lunches annually to the hungry, isolated, and lonely in the community. Read More

Michigan Area represented in 12th Annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Champion National Shrine

August 14, 2025
The shrine to Our Lady of Champion was designated a National Shrine by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2016. Read More

Michigan Area’s August First Saturday held at St. Mary’s of Royal Oak

August 9, 2025
As is traditional for the Michigan Area, the event included the opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, with Msgr. Michael LeFevre, ChM, hearing confessions. Read More

Michigan Area’s August 2 “Into the Fire” takes food, prayers to Detroit streets

August 9, 2025
The food was provided by Michigan Area members and members of St. Edith Catholic Parish in Livonia. Read More

Michigan Area joins July 26 celebration of Detroit’s patronal feast day at Ste. Anne de Detroit Basilica

August 1, 2025
Ste. Anne de Detroit is the oldest parish in Michigan and the second-oldest continuously operating parish in the United States. Read More

Michigan Area members prepare, serve over 100 lunches at St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen in Detroit

August 1, 2025
Working under the direction of soup kitchen Chef/Manager Dominic French, Michigan Area members prepared hot meals for those in need. Read More

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