Michigan Area members serve up lunch, fellowship at St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen on September 26
October 3, 2025St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen serves about 30,000 lunches annually to the hungry, isolated, and lonely in the community. Read More
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St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen serves about 30,000 lunches annually to the hungry, isolated, and lonely in the community. Read More
”Seven Dames and Fasting Knights” offer spiritual support to Michigan Area chaplains
September 21, 2025The Fasting Brothers offer their fasts in conjunction with the Seven Sisters’ prayers. Read More
Michigan Area joins Maltese-American community at 16th Annual “Festa il-Vitorja” in Detroit
September 11, 2025Mass 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, 2025With 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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, 2025Located 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, 2025The 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, 2025As 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, 2025The food was provided by Michigan Area members and members of St. Edith Catholic Parish in Livonia. Read More
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