What is Spiritual Adoption?

It is an opportunity to pledge a daily prayer for nine months for a baby who is in danger of abortion. This special prayer is found on the Spiritual Adoption Prayer cards. For the parents of the baby, please pray a daily Hail Mary. Pray that God in His great mercy will grant the parents the courage to once more imitate the lives of Mary and Joseph. THIS SPIRITUAL ADOPTION begins now, near Apr 18-19, 2026.

It is an opportunity to educate others about the development of the pre-born baby. You also are encouraged look at the posters that will be in the Narthex once a month so that all can watch the progress of their baby’s development.

Deeper our love and devotion for the Risen Lord during this powerful season by praying the Regina Caeli (daily), prayerfully ponder the 11 appearances of Our Lord to the disciples and followers from Easter to Ascension and read the entire New Testament in the Easter Season. A pamphlet with all of this is on the table in the church entrance.

The Lord is Risen, He is truly Risen, ALLELUIA!!!

The Seven Churches Visitation, attributed to St. Phillip Neri in the 1500s, is a Holy Thursday devotion where people visit seven churches after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. This practice commemorates the final seven locations Jesus visited from his arrest on Holy Thursday to his death on Good Friday, recalling His request for disciples to stay and watch with Him in the garden.  If one cannot visit seven churches and pray at their Altar of Repose, then one can spend time in prayer with Jesus meditating on these events in Jesus life that won for us our salvation. 

As we imitate Jesus' 40-day fast and prepare to renew our baptismal promises on Easter Sunday, the Lord calls us to intensify our reading of His word. In this Lent, I invite you to ask for and accept the grace to read through all the prophets of the Old Testament except Isaiah. (We encourage you to read the prophet, Isaiah, during Advent). The following arrangement will help you. As you read the Lord's prophetic word, you will repent deeply and have the springtime of your life in the Spirit.

Here is a table showing the O Antiphons as paired with the verses of "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel":

Dec 17

Antiphon 1: O Wisdom of our God Most High, guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge!

Verse 2: O come, O Wisdom from on high who ordered all things mightily to us the path of knowledge show and teach us in its ways to go.

St. Joseph is the Universal Patron of the Church. He protected Jesus and Mary while on earth. From his place in heaven he still intercedes and protects Christ’s Body, The Church.

During the month of October Pope Francis will convene the first of two gatherings of bishops throughout the world and selected others to participate in the Synod on Synodality. Hopefully good and holy things will come from this two year process. We all need to pray and pray hard for the outcome of this gathering.

Litany of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows

by Pope Pius VII

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.

One of the best-loved Advent hymns we sing is "O Come, O Come Emmanuel". The verses of that stirring song are comprised of what the Church calls the Advent "O antiphons".

The O antiphons were composed in the 7th or 8th century by an anonymous monk. These seven, short poetic verses, in today's liturgy, are intoned or recited as the Alleluia verse before the Gospel at Mass, and as the antiphon for the Magnificat at vespers. Each Advent, the Church begins singing the O antiphons on December 17—seven days before Christmas.

June is the Month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During this month we will again have the Sacred Heart of Jesus Altar up front with votive candles. These candles with the $10.00 offering can be lit asking the Sacred Heart of Jesus to protect you and loved ones. The votive candle represents our special intentions we bring to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

During this month gather your family around the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in your home and renew your Family Consecration to the Sacred Heart. The following Consecration Prayer can be used: