During these Sundays of Ordinary Time, we have been reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Today we have his magnificent description of love, the highest gift, without which all other gifts or good works are worthless. He tells us what love is and what it is not. For example, it is “not…
Today’s Gospel reading relates a very dramatic moment in the life of Our Lord. One Sabbath, in his hometown synagogue, Jesus is asked to read from Scripture and to comment on it. There was nothing unusual in this, and he read a familiar prophecy of the Messiah from Isaiah 61. But when he had sat…
March for Life
Every human person has a deep need for a sense of self-worth. Where does this come from? Many voices in our world tell us that our value depends on how we look, how much money we make or how popular we are, etc… Our neighborhood in Lawrence has many barber shops and beauty and nail…
The territory of former Corpus Christi Parish is now part of St Mary of the Assumption Parish in Lawrence. But this does not mean that donations to the Holy Rosary Shrine will go to St. Mary’s. The Shrine is independent from any Parish and all donations to Holy Rosary Shrine will go for our particular…
I have seen a bumper sticker that says: “The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.” This is a clever thought but a much better analogy would be to say the mind is like a mouth, it only works when it opens to receive truth and closes in order to…
Please pray the Rosary for an important case currently before the Supreme Court, (Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization). Let us ask Our Lady’s intercession that unborn children will once again be protected under the law. Thank you.
A Shrine is a holy place where people go to worship God, to pray, to hear the word of God, and to receive the Sacraments. They are also places of pilgrimage and often of miraculous healing. The law of the Church says: “At Shrines more abundant means of salvation are to be provided the faithful;…
We have entered into the liturgical time known as “Greater Advent,” this period (Dec 17-23) is always seven days before the vigil of Christmas. The daily mass readings are specially chosen to help us meditate on the coming of Jesus. Unique to this time are the “O Antiphons“, which dates back to the seventh century…
On the 12th of December we normally celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but since it falls on the Third Sunday of Advent this year it is not celebrated in the official Liturgy. However, we still remember this great miracle of Our Blessed Mother’s apparition and her miraculous image on St. Juan Diego’s…