Stations, Retreat, & Early Mass This Weekend

This Friday at 6 pm Fr. Sandquist will lead us in praying the Stations of the Cross, followed by a potluck soup supper.

Saturday morning we will have Mass at 9 am followed by a Day of Recollection with opportunities for Confession. The retreat will close in the early afternoon with Benediction and Rosary. See schedule below.

Sunday morning our regular Mass time is re-scheduled to 8 am. There will be no Mass at 2 pm.

Two Masses this Weekend–Grab the Graces!

Praise be Jesus and Mary!

Fr. Sandquist and seven seminarians will join our chapel workday this Saturday, and so we will have a Low Mass at 8 am on Saturday, and a High Mass at 7 am on Sunday.

The workday is to enclose our pavilion to create a storage space and a workshop. Then we can clear out the social hall and proceed with installing a new kitchen.

What a blessing to close the last Sunday of the Christmas season with a High Mass and seven seminarians to sing and serve! Deo gratias!

Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away the sins of the world.

Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed.

Temporary Mass Time Changes

Not only do we “fall back” an hour today, we have a mass schedule change for two Sundays. Today, Nov. 6th, and next Sunday, Nov. 13th, our mass time will be:

Nov. 6th, Noon

Nov. 13th, 7 am

Then we go back to the regular 2 pm mass time on Nov. 20th.

Lift Up Your Gates, O Ye Princes, and the King of Glory Shall Enter In!

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Thursday, May 26th, is a Holy Day of Obligation. Mass attendance and refraining from servile work are obligatory. Fr. Stephen Sandquist, CMRI, will offer Holy Mass for Ascension Thursday at 6 pm in Chelsea, OK.

“This Ascension, which enthroned our Emmanuel as the eternal centre of light, was by His own decree, to take place on one of the days of the month which men call May, and which clothes in its richest beauty the creation of this same God, who, when He had made it, was pleased with it, and found it very good. Sweet month of May! Not gloomy and cold like December, which brought us the humble joys of Bethlehem; not lowering and clouded like March, when the Lamb was sacrificed on Calvary; but buoyant with sunshine, and flowers, and life, and truly worthy to be offered, each year, to Mary, the Mother of God, for it is the month of her Jesus’ triumph.” Dom Gueranger, OSB, The Liturgical Year