Blessed Sacrament Parish

Welcome to Blessed Sacrament Parish Community! We invite you to pray, worship, and serve with us as we live out our mission, To help everyone recognize and experience the presence of God. Our vision: a community inspired to joyfully manifest Christs loving compassion to all. We live out this calling through our Core Beliefs: We believe that the sac... ramental life of the Church empowers us for service and growth in holiness. We believe in the dignity of every human person. We believe that hospitality and inclusiveness are central to the life of the Church. We believe that we are all stewards of all Gods gifts. We believe that works of peace and justice are an integral part of the Gospel call. We believe that with God all things are possible. We believe that compassion and forgiveness unite us with Jesus. Blessed Sacrament was a name selected by Monsignor Joseph Illeg and for parishioners who strive to live as one in the Body of Christ. In the early 1940s, the Catholic Bishop of Saginaw purchased property at the corner of East Ashman and Swede as the future site of a new Catholic Church in Midland, MI. In 1951 Fr. Camill Klos was appointed Pastor and the first Mass was held in the Northeast Intermediate school gym in November of that year. With the placing of a cornerstone on July 18, 1955, we saw the beginning of our first home where we would worship, learn and socialize. This place is our present social hall and gym, and it is the home of our present administrative/office areas as well as our former school. Our present gym was at that time a more formal worship space with a permanent altar, side altars and regular pews. A curtain between the social hall and gym could be opened so worshippers in the social hall could also participate. The parish broke ground for the new church in 1966. The church was designed in a circular shape so that no one in the church is more than 70 feet from the main altar. Parishioner Jim Hopfensperger helped in the design of the church with the faceted colored glass walls. He also ...Read More