Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

Dear Family in Christ,  What do we do when someone faints at Mass?  I wanted to take this space and time to address a phenomenon that took place twice in our parish over the course of the past month. While relatively rare, these things do happen and it’s important to be prepared. As a church, we don’t exactly have clearly communicated protocols so it is important that we address this explicitly. I want to start by saying how impressed and proud I am of the way that we as a family handled both...

As the Church celebrates the feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, it gives believers an opportunity to pause and remember their own baptisms. The majority of Catholics have no memories of their baptism, and that’s because they were baptized as infants. For some though, the memory is strong, as they were baptized as an adult after going through the RCIA process. Regardless of age, what do you know about your baptism? Let’s pause and remember the facts of our own baptism: the where, when, and who...

This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Our focus today is on the magi. Who were these men, sometimes called kings? We don’t know a whole lot about them. The main thing we know is that they were not Jewish. And this is significant. A few days after the birth of the Lord, gentiles, pagans, were summoned to follow a star to Israel where the One the ages waited for was born. They followed the star because they were good men honestly seeking God’s will. It must have been quite a...