New Blog Added: Fr. White - Our Lady of Good Counsel, Plymouth, MI

Just wanted to let everyone know of a blog I have started paying attention to:

Fr. White is the newest priest at OLGC in Plymouth, Michigan. OLGC was the Modern Rite parish that my wife and I were members of while in Michigan. Although it is a very NEW, LARGE, and MODERN feeling Church, the parish is run by 3 of the BEST priests I have ever come into contact with.

Fr. White came on just as I moved up to Alaska so I didn't get much interaction time with him, but from what I could tell, and what I have read he is a very orthodox priest and a deeply devoted man of God. Here is an except from one of his most recent blog posts, which I can only guess is a recent homily from a Baptism:

Jesus Christ calls each and every one of us here. We are not here by accident. The Lord is working in the lives of each and every one here. It is not we who have chosen the Lord: He has chosen us. He wants us to follow Him; He wants us to put Him first in our lives. He wants each one of us to love Him with our whole heart. It doesn’t matter what obstacles to personal holiness you may think exist in your life. Jesus Christ is calling each and every one of us to love Him with all that we are and with all our strength. Each and every one of us is called to be a Saint.


And a Saint is not just someone who kneels in a monastery all day. Saints are those who love God with their whole hearts, and God fills their hearts with His life and His love and His joy and they, then, take that joy and that life and that love out into the world and share it with others. When I say that we are all called to be Saints, I am not saying that we are all called to run away from the world and hide; I am saying that we are all called to live our lives for God. And God wants us all to be happy. God created us to be happy. Ultimately, He wants us to be happy with Him forever in Heaven, yes, but He wants us to be happy even in this life even now.


True happiness is only found by giving our whole heart to God and by doing His will. It sounds contradictory to our ears, our culture tells us the opposite. Our culture says that happiness is being able to do whatever I want. But those who do whatever they want and have everything they want still, in the long run, find that they are unhappy. The more selfish, and greedy, and sinful we are the less happy we will be. Sin can give immediate gratification, but it cannot ever satisfy our hearts. Our hearts can be only be satisfied by God alone.

 So check out his blog... and hopefully you will get something from his posts that make you think about your faith in a Christ centered way.

-Posted by: Joe