Greetings. Today is Divine Mercy Sunday. This feast was instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 2000. The feast of Divine Mercy originated from private revelations offered to Sr. Mary Faustina, in Poland, beginning in 1924 and culminating with the vision of Jesus as the “King of Divine Mercy” on 22 February 1931. Jesus, in this vision, asked Sr.… Read More »Divine Mercy Sunday
From all of us here at Our Lady of Peace, we pray that you have a wonderful Easter. Blessings to you and yours in this season of Resurrection. Our worship spaces at Our Lady of Peace and Notre Dame de Lourdes are stunningly beautiful. Thanks to all of our church decorators. It was a very busy week preparing our worship… Read More »The Light of Easter
Greetings and welcome to Holy Week. Remember that Good Friday, this Friday, is a day of abstinence from meat for anyone aged fourteen or older, and it is a fast day for anyone from age eighteen through age fifty-nine. Thanks, and blessings on this most sacred of days. Our parish’s Triduum commemorations, conducted at Our Lady of Peace Church, are… Read More »Holy Week
Congratulations to everyone involved in our Drama Club production of Frozen Jr. which concludes today. The performances have been spectacular and the production sensational. Thank you to all who have worked so diligently to prepare for these performances. You have graced us with your talents at recent Sunday Masses at both the Notre Dame de Lourdes and Our Lady of… Read More »Presenting…Drama Club’s Production of Frozen Jr.
Congratulations and blessings to our Confirmation Class who were fully initiated into the Catholic Faith yesterday. We will continue to keep you and your families close in our well wishes and prayers. Thanks to Bishop McIntyre for presiding and celebrating with us. Frozen Jr. will take the stage at the Parish Center at OLP this week. We are excited to… Read More »Bless our Confirmation Class
“When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.” Acts of the Apostles 2:1 Greetings. Soon for our seventh grade students the time for Pentecost will be fulfilled. On Saturday we will gather in one place together and welcome Bishop McIntyre who will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation upon our PREP and our Notre Dame… Read More »Confirmation!
Greetings. We are less than a week into our Lenten observances. Let’s continue our preparation for the season. Never on a Sunday? Is it permissible to forgo your Lenten sacrifices on Sunday? Every Sunday of the year is a celebration of the Resurrection – feast rather than fast. Yet certain Sundays carry a distinctive character of the season. Advent Sundays… Read More »The Start of Lent
Greetings. Tuesday is Mardi Gras and the season of Lent begins on Wednesday. Mass on Ash Wednesday morning will be celebrated at 8:30 at Our Lady of Peace Church. A Liturgy of the Word with distribution of Ashes will be celebrated at Our Lady of Peace at 6:30 p.m., also at the Notre Dame worship site on Fairview Road at… Read More »Mardi Gras
Greetings. Annually, on the Sunday before Valentine’s Day, the Catholic Church recognizes World Marriage Day. Blessings upon all of our married couples and for those who are preparing for the Sacrament of Matrimony. The following prayer is from the Book of Blessings. Almighty and eternal God, you have so exalted the unbreakable bond of marriage that it has become the… Read More »Go Birds!
Greetings. February is the shortest month of the year since it was, until two millennia ago, the final month of the year. The idea was that the calendar would change when the seasons changed. Thus Spring would signal the need for a new calendar, and February would signal the need for Spring Cleaning. The name February itself is derived from… Read More »Welcome to February