First Saturday Mass – Mother of Mercy Chapel

In May, Fr. John Herman, C.S.C will offer the Holy Sacrefice of the Mass on the First Saturday in reparation for offenses against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Fr. Herman is rector and religious superior at Moreau Seminary, the Congregation of Holy Cross’ major religious seminary. He was born in Ohio and raised in Trenton, Michigan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Detroit prior to entering formation in Holy Cross. He professed Final Vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross on August 27, 1994, and was ordained to the priesthood on April 22, 1995. Before serving at Moreau Seminary, Fr. John served the Congregation as the rector of O’Neill Hall and a campus minister at Notre Dame, as the Pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Goodyear, Arizona and then as Pastor of Nuestra Madre Santísima de la Luz Parish, in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, México.

Details on the Five First Saturday Devotion