The 8th Annual Stride for Seminarians was held on September 19, 2021, hosted by the Alexander and Gabrielle Mansour Memorial Fund. This year’s event was hosted at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, marking the first time supporters walked and prayed together since 2019’s event at the zoo.

On September 14, 2021 parishes throughout our diocese celebrated the Feast of the Holy Cross.

On September 8, 2021, Sr. Maria Immaculata and Sr. Mary Bernadette of the Chaldean Sisters: Daughters of Mary Immaculate, made their First Profession of Vows. The ceremony and Mass took place at St. Thomas Chaldean Catholic Church in West Bloomfield, Michigan and was presided by Bp. Francis Kalabat, bishop of the Chaldean Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle.

The diocese has made available an approved template for the faithful to use on their own behalf.

Chaldean bishops from around the world gathered for the 2021 Bishop’s Synod at the patriarchal headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq from August 9-14, 2021.

On Monday, July 19, Bishop Francis Kalabat celebrated Mass at the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit. Night three of the ten-day novena welcomed our Chaldean community.

On Saturday, July 3, eighty-eight Readers from our parishes gathered at Mother of God church for a Mass and Blessing from Bp. Francis Kalabat.