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Please mark your calendar for our parish Lenten retreat on March 14 for the English speaking community.
More information wil follow.

You’re invited to a Farewell Potluck Lunch in honor of Sr. Kathy and Sr. Betty, on Sunday March 15, 1-4 pm at the Parish Center. The Parish will provide cake.
Please bring your favorite dish to share. Let us gather together in gratitude for their dedicated service at OLR and to wish them a retirement filled with peace, joy and love.

Did you know that only around 17 OLR parishioners donate to the parish using on-line giving? Using the Abundant on-line giving web application (or the phone app) allows you to automatically schedule your donations whether it’s weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly. This can assist you in making your contribution to the parish even when you can’t be here. You can have the payment come from your credit card or directly from your bank account.

Website: https://abundant.co/ourladyoftherosary/give

or scan the QR code below.

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting. We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.

Many know of the tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent, but we are also called to practice self-discipline and fast in other ways throughout the season. Contemplate the meaning and origins of the Lenten fasting tradition in this reflection. In addition, the giving of alms is one way to share God’s gifts—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. As St. John Chrysostom reminds us: “Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2446).

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

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