VersAlta Mission Solutions

09/09/2025

Thank you to David Kerr for the timely publication of our founder Marco DeCapite’s reflection on how VersAlta’s patron saint, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, chose him:

News - Diocese of Lansing

04/29/2024

Our patron to be canonized in 2025! Trip to Rome anyone?

04/18/2023

As technologists we are always striving to keep up with the latest and greatest technology which we can use to help us on our faith journey.

Our team has compiled a list of our favorite apps which help us grow deeper in our faith.

The first of which is Laudate. This app provides daily readings, prayers (Latin and English), devotions, and liturgical calendar access. There is an area to add, bookmark, and categorize your own prayers. It also includes a variety of other resources, such as a directory of Catholic churches and schools.

Learn more about our favorite apps:
https://mission.versalta.com/blog/technology-to-help-you-on-your-faith-journey

There are many Catholic apps, podcasts, websites, and daily meditations available to us. These provide us with the opportunity to read or listen to daily readings, prayers, devotions, news, and more. Our team has put together a list of their favorite apps, podcasts, websites, and emails.

01/05/2023

Pope Benedict XVI was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from April 19, 2005 until his resignation on February 28, 2013.

Known for his theological knowledge, Pope Benedict was a true teacher of the Church.

"Great in strength and intellectual insight, great in his significant contribution to theology, great in his love for the Church and for human beings, great in his virtue and his religiosity," Pope Francis said in 2014 during the debut of a new statue in honor of Benedict in the Vatican Gardens.

May he rest in peace.

12/01/2022

Thank you FrMario Amore and the St. Aloysius Detroit staff who are doing outstanding work in the community -- serving the people of Downtown Detroit.

Their community outreach includes sandwich delivery to people on the streets, clothing donations, toiletry bags for the homeless, grocery delivery to senior citizens, food pantry, visits to the elderly, and more!

They can always use volunteers. If you would like to help St. Aloysius Detroit in their community outreach, please visit: staloysiusdetroit.com/neighborhood-services

Day 5: “I am very thankful for Jerry McElhone (and his wife Raquel!), Brian Mull, and the IT team at the Archdiocese of Detroit. They are always willing to help when we encounter network problems, complications with livestreaming, or any other technology-related issue. They have been a constant to support to St. Aloysius Parish and I can’t imagine where we would be without them!”

09/29/2022

On September 26, Sacred Heart Major Seminary held its 40th annual Desert Golf Classic. The proceeds from this event fund the Desert Formation Experience. Brian Mull did a wonderful job representing VersAlta!

Desert Formation Experience is the thirty-day spiritual pilgrimage first-year graduate seminarians make each year to the Holy Land. There they experience firsthand the places Christ walked and taught, suffered, and died, while seeking his guidance in their own walk toward the priesthood.

Click here to donate to this worthy cause:

https://www.shms.edu/content/desert-formation-experience

09/09/2022

Recently named Bishop of Winona-Rochester in June 2022. Bishop Barron is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS.

Most Reverend Bishop Robert E. Barron returned to his Detroit roots to speak at the The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica. There he spoke about St. Thérèse of Lisieux and her famed spirituality of the “Little Way.”

“Bishop Barron went through examples of St. Thérèse’s biography Story of Soul that encapsulate her spirituality of the ‘Little Way’ and what it means to live by accepting divine grace as a gift.” – detroitcatholic.com

Learn more about Bishop Baron’s talk about St. Therese
https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/bishop-robert-barron-preaches-on-how-best-to-love-in-the-littlest-ways-during-keynote-on-st-therese-of-lisieux-at-shrine-bascilica

09/08/2022

Missionary Disciple Spotlight: Paul Spankie

Paul is truly on a mission to win souls for Christ.

He has taken his education, coupled it with his passion for the Lord, and has come to VersAlta to help us on our journey to win souls for Christ.

From the Archdiocese of Omaha to the Archdiocese of Detroit, Paul has been making an impact within the Church, its employees, and parishes.

Most recently Paul was a missionary strategic planner working with Mike Houghton at the AOD. There he directly supported 26 of the Archdiocese's 214 parishes navigate the transition to the families of parishes structure and begin a process of missionary strategic planning. He also worked with a team to develop a survey to solicit priests' ministry interests and an assessment to capture the history, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of individual parishes.

Now we have the pleasure of having him on our team as a Technology Support Specialist-- working in Operations, Shared Services, and Data Analytics. Paul is also project managing an effort to get our last few Parishes onto ParishSOFT. This is foundational to helping Family of Parishes collaborate using a single shared Church Management System.

Paul is a member of St. Peter Parish in Mount Clemens, He is married to his wonderful wife for a year and a half and has a 3.5 month old baby boy.

Fun fact...he loves the outdoors and once did a 21-day backpacking excursion in the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains.

09/07/2022

Missionary Disciple Spotlight: Alyssa Whitmore

This summer we had the pleasure of working with Alyssa as our intern. She is a graduate of Shrine High School and assisted her dad in starting the robotics program there.

She helped us in our efforts as we work with ParishSoft. In addition, she assisted us with our initiatives for the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica

As Alyssa heads back to the Franciscan University of Steubenville, we wish her the best of luck this semester as she works towards her degree in engineering.

07/11/2022

While at DISC we had the pleasure of spending time with John Manera, Deacon at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Lake Orion.