— Fr. Steve’s Favorites —

“A single Hail Mary is like blessed dew falling from Heaven to earth.”
- St. Louis de Montfort

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Favorite Charities

Grizzly Catholic Campus Ministry: Grizzly Catholic Campus Ministry is the campus ministry foundation that serves Oakland University in Rochester, MI, of which Fr. Steve is the current campus ministry chaplain. Their whole mission is to bring souls to Jesus Christ on the campus of Oakland University. Click here to learn more and join the forces of this great mission!

Community of Jesus Crucified: The Community of Jesus Crucified is a religious order in St. Martinville, LA that Fr. Steve got to live in and be apart of for a year. Their mission includes “striving to meet the unmet needs of the unserved in society, disseminating knowledge of the spiritual life to the laity, adoring the Real Presence, redemptive suffering, and striving for contemplative union”. Click here to support this beautiful community!

Favorite Books

Spiritual Books:

  • Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

  • Jesus of Nazareth 1-3 by Pope Benedict XVI

  • The Memoirs of St. Peter, a New Translation of Mark by Michael Pakuluk

  • The Life of Mary as Seen in the Mystics by Raphael Brown

Fiction Books:

  • Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

  • The Didymus Contingency by Jeremy Robinson

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockhum

  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Non-Fiction Books:

  • Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher

  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  • Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker

  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • D-Day by Stephen Ambrose

  • The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn 

  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich by Eric Metaxes

Favorite Churches

Local Churches (Archdiocese of Detroit):

  • St. Mary’s of Redford, Detroit

  • Sweetest Heart of Mary, Detroit

  • Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak

  • St. Mary Cause of Our Joy, Westland (Formerly known as St. Theodore, where Fr. Steve was baptized)

  • Old St. Mary in Greektown, Detroit

Other Churches:

  • The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis; St. Louis, MO

  • The Historic St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica; Beaumont, TX

Favorite
Sports Teams

  • Michigan Football

  • Detroit Lions

  • Michigan Basketball

  • Detroit Lions

  • Michigan Football (Let’s Go Blue!)

Favorite Bourbons

Bourbons:

  • Eagle Rare

  • Colonel Taylor

  • Basil Hayden (all of them)

  • Woodford Reserve Double Oak

Irish Whiskeys:

  • Green Spot

  • Jamison Black

  • Red Breast

  • Glendalough

  • Writers Tears

  • Kilbrin