Mass Schedule:

Mon, Wed, Fri - 12:15pm

Tue,Thu - 9:15pm

Sunday - 8:00am Noon 5:00pm - 7:00pm 

Our History:

A student organization was set up in 1924 for the Catholic students at Michigan Agricultural College. In 1933 the students organized a Newman Club with Fr. Cecil Winters as chaplain. On October 1, 1940 Fr. Winters became founding pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in East Lansing. (St. Thomas Aquinas is patron saint of students.) St. Thomas Aquinas Parish was to have a large focus on the students of MAC.

Fr. Jerome MacEachin (Fr. Mac) succeeded Fr. Winters as pastor. The Newman Club secured a house for thier activities and grew to be the largest Newman Club in the nation in 1950. Fr. Mac took on raising funds for a new student parish in 1954. In 1956 ground was broken. Fr. Robert Kavanaugh was assigned as the first pastor of the student parish.

Although Catholics at MSU gathered for worship and social activities prior to 1958, it was in that year that the Lansing Diocese opened St. John Student Parish to serve the Catholic population at Michigan State University. Contributions from Catholics throughout Michigan helped support this effort. Among those present during the opening weeks of the parish were Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame, who presented the parish with an oil painting of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the “inspirer” of campus Newman Centers.