OLR PARISH OFFICE – Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church

RETREAT TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 22

With Advent quickly approaching, you won’t want to miss this retreat. Our Lady of the Rosary will host a church retreat on Saturday, November 22 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. Father David McCanless, Catholic chaplain at Wake Forest University, will lead the retreat focusing on Advent…Preparing for Christmas. The retreat will be held in the Parish Center, and lunch will be provided and served by the Hispanic community. Please join us for an inspiring spiritual journey and sign up in Rosary Hall so we can get a headcount for lunch.

Father David, originally from Salisbury, was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Charlotte in 2016. He has a graduate degree in Biblical Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. Prior to his assignment to Wake Forest, he served as the Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick Cathedral (Charlotte) and the Basilica of St. Lawrence (Asheville), and as Pastor at Our Lady of Mercy (Winston-Salem).

YOUTH GROUP TO HOLD RAFFLE & FUN FRIDAY

OLR Youth members thank our parishioners for your support during Soctober. We collected 349 pairs of NEW socks for the homeless shelter. We are reminded
“Whatsoever you do to the least of these, you do onto me.”

OLR Youth upcoming events: Thanks to Susan, raffle tickets for a beautiful handmade F/Q quilt of Our Lady of Guadalupe & shams will be available after all Masses the last two weekends of November and the first weekend of December. The drawing will be held December 12, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. One ticket is $10 or 3 for $20.

OLR Youth Red Cross babysitters are hosting FUN FRIDAY on December 5 from 5-7 pm at the Parish Center. Kids ages 1-12 can participate while parents take a break. Games, crafts, an escape room and pizza & cookies are planned. Cost is $20 per child and $10 for each additional sibling. Help us plan by preregistering the last two weekends of November. Pay at the event.

FAITH FORMATION REGISTRATION

If your child will be starting first grade in the
2025-2026 school year, it is time to register them
for Faith Formation Classes.

You can come by
the church office on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays,
from 10 am-3:00 pm to register them. *Please
bring a copy of your child’s Birth Certificate and
Baptismal certificate for registration.

FIRST COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION

First Communion will be held on May 17 at 10:00 AM.

Confirmation will be held on May 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM.

“Live What You Believe”

Today we read the last of Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain’ Coming to the end of the speech, a good speaker will try to sum up and underline what is really important so that people will remember the main points. In his conclusion Jesus stressed that his disciples must learn to be true to themselves in words, thoughts and actions. Jesus uses three images taken from daily life to illustrate his point: a blind leader, a master and his disciple, the tree and its fruit. Jesus’ radical message must transform our lives if we want to bear good fruit and be disciples and leaders of others.

“Be Merciful As Your Father Is Merciful”

The Gospel of today continues the Sermon on the Plain. The challenge is to love differently from what is the normal way of loving. The world invites people to love those who love them and to repay evil for evil. However, Jesus invites his disciples to act differently. They are to use goodness of heart to overcome evil in the world and in their lives because they have seen the example of God himself. Jesus shows that love is revolutionary and can turn the world upside down.

“True happiness of the follower of Jesus”

In Lk 6:12-16, Jesus spent a full night in prayer and then called twelve men from among his disciples, whom he called ‘apostles’, the sent ones. Luke will use the title apostle only for those twelve chosen ones. Together with the other disciples they are the ones who hear the Great Sermon of Jesus on the Plain (Lk 6:17:7:1) which we start reading today. In his teaching Jesus shows where true happiness lies and warns that those who are trying to be sons and daughters of God often miss it. The standards of the world are not those of God. Jesus’ way of looking at life turns upside down our usual ideas and values.

Jesus calls the First Three Fishermen to Follow Him

Today’s Gospel follows the experience of Jesus in Nazareth that we read the past two Sundays. There he was first admired but later on rejected by his people (Lk 4:16-30). After some healing in Capernaum (Lk $:31-41) he prays in a lonely place (Lk 4:4243). Jesus comes back to the shores of Lake Gennesaret to teach a crowd eager to hear his word. Peter, James and John are invited to actually follow him. They leave their work and their family and friends to walk with him. Jesus teaches, challenges and calls the whole crowd. All listen eagerly but only some will be invited to follow him more closely.

“Good News for The Poor”

10/27/2019

Two selections from the two different chapters have been put together in today’s Gospel. The first is from the introduction to the entire Gospel (Lk 1:1-4) where Luke says for whom he is writing the Gospel, how he wrote it and why he wrote it. The second part is taken from the first public appearance of Jesus in his home village, Nazareth (Lk 4:14-21). He reads a passage from the book of the prophet Isaiah (Is 61:1-2) to tell them what his mission is about. He declares that the words are fulfilled todays in his person.

“The First Sign of The New Time”

01/20/2019

Last Sunday we read the Baptism of Jesus. Jesus has began his public ministry and will start teaching very soon. According to the tradition he is about thirty years old at this time. In today’s Gospel we see one of the first miracles he does. Jesus is invited to a wedding with his disciple and it is there that he works his first miracle. Jesus is present at the wedding with his mother also and she is the one who invites him to help the newlywed couple. The miracle is possible because the servants obey the command of Jesus.