As we approach Easter Sunday, please submit your Easter Flowers envelopes by Friday before Easter Sunday, if you wish to have your donations made in Memory of a loved one to be included in our Remembrance Page that will be displayed on Easter Sunday. Please, print the names clearly. You may use the form at…
Mass Intentions Saturday, March 25 9:00am Novus Ordo Mass: (*) 4:00pm John Kerrigan & Joan Kerrigan, Birthday Rem.; Thomas & Helena Napolitano & Dec’d Family; David & Elaine Pickles & Dec’d Family; Linda Bellia Hartley, 25th Anniversary Rem.; Grace Ciofolo, 100 Birthday James Michalopoulos Sunday, March 26 10:00am Czeslawa & Heronim Abramczyk; Edyta & Josef…
From the Friars: De Profundis In today’s Mass we pray Psalm 130 which is known as the “De Profundis”, the Latin translation of the first line: “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.” It can be seen as the cry of the human race, cut off from God by sin and doomed…
Legion of Mary of Merrimack Valley Curia are cordially inviting you to participate in Our Annual ACIES Ceremony of Consecration to our Blessed Mother on Sunday, March 26th, 2023 at 2:30pm at Holy Rosary Shrine. We encourage you to invite your family and friends. Refreshments will be served in the Shrine Center following the ceremony.…
From the Friars: The Sword of Sarcasm Sarcasm is usually sinful because in reality it is almost always a barely disguised insult and unnecessarily hurtful. However, in the case of the man born blind of today’s Gospel, we can easily understand his use of sarcastic language given the circumstances. Suddenly, unexpectedly, this man was able…
The following is an excerpt from the Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini of St. Paul VI of 1966 True penitence, however, cannot ever prescind from physical asceticism as well. Our whole being in fact, body and soul, (indeed the whole of nature, even animals without reason, as Holy Scripture often points out)(46) must participate actively in this…
Mass Intentions Saturday, March 18 9:00am Novus Ordo Mass: (*) 4:00pm Carole DeLotto MMM; Amelia Sign, MMM; Anthony S. D’Amato & Deceased Family; Nancy Walker & Deceased Family Sunday, March 19 10:00am Constance Adams, Memorial 12:00pm Spanish Mass: Hermanos Frias Cazares; Virgen de Altagracia & Divino Niño Jesus, FFR Monday, March 20 12:05pm English Mass:…
On Monday, March 20th, 2023 we celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and earthly father of Jesus Christ. There will be a 7:00pm Mass to honor him. Light refreshments will be served after the Mass in the Shrine center.
Taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2697 Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our all. This is why the Fathers of the spiritual life in the Deuteronomic and prophetic traditions insist that…
This year, the Feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of our Archdiocese, falls on a Friday during Lent. Given the importance of this feast in the life of the Archdiocese and in the lives of many Catholics, Cardinal Seán is granting a dispensation from the Friday Lenten Abstinence on March 17, 2023, to those…