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Inside our Church
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Image - Our Church is dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and her powerful image is displayed prominently in our sanctuary
Holy Water is available to parishioners and visitors.
The Mosaic underneath the altar
Holy Oils
Stations of the Cross
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee...
Welcome to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Catholic Church
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Mission Statement
We are a community of worship on Sundays and weekdays, growing spiritually, supporting the gracefully aging parishioners in our community, while also preparing and offering to our children in catechism class the tools they will need to use in their daily lives. We focus on training future Religious Education teachers about the teachings and protection of our children, with emphasis on their protection.
We support people in recovery from alcoholism and drugs. We are helping our young families with wedding ceremonies and do a follow up to confirm or assist in their spiritual growth.
We reach out to the poor as instructed by Pope St. John Paul II in his encyclical Solicitudo Rei Socialis and we reflect the wishes and prayers of our current Pope Francis.
OLPH is one of 42 parishes and 17 missions within the Diocese of Santa Rosa. We are focused on getting to heaven and you are most welcome to join us on our journey there.
GOSPEL FOR JULY 15, 2018
Jesus summoned the Twelve
and began to send them out two by two
and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
He instructed them to take nothing for the journey
but a walking stick—
no food, no sack, no money in their belts.
They were, however, to wear sandals
but not a second tunic.
He said to them,
“Wherever you enter a house,
stay there until you leave.
Whatever place does not welcome
you or listen to you,
leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them.”
So, they went off and preached repentance.
The Twelve drove out many demons,
and they anointed with oil many who
were sick and cured them.
PRAYER INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Month of July
Evangelization: Priests and their Pastoral Ministry
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That priests who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests.
Here is the link where you can find the digital booklet containing pictures of Pope Francis in celebration of his first year: Click here.
Other links of interest:
- English Mass– 9:00 AM
- Spanish Mass– 12:00 PM
- Confession after Mass
- English Mass– 8:00 AM
- Office Hours– 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Office Closed
- English Mass– 8:00 AM
- Confessions after mass
- English Mass– 8:00 AM
- Office Hours– 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Confessions after mass.
- English Mass– 8:00 AM
- Office Hours– 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Office Closed
- Communion Service– 8:00 AM
- English Mass– 5:00 PM
St. Alexius of Rome
St. Alexius (d. 417 A.D.) was a native of Rome, the son of a distinguished Roman senator. His parents arranged a marriage for him, but he had a divine calling to a higher vocation. On the night of his wedding, with permission from his fiancé, he secretly fled to Edessa in Syria to live in poverty and obscurity as a holy ascetic. He disguised himself as a beggar, unrecognized by all, even accepting alms from his own servants who were sent to look for him. St. Alexius lived in this way for seventeen years. A vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church near his dwelling identified him as a "Man of God." When the fame of his sanctity spread in Edessa, he moved back to Rome so that he could continue his hidden life. He lived as a beggar under the very stairs of his father's palace, his true identity completely unknown to anyone. He lived in this way for another seventeen years. He was befriended by other Christians, shared his alms with the poor, and taught catechism to children. It was only after his death that his identity was revealed through a document that he secretly carried on his person. He was then venerated as a saint, and his father's palace was converted into a church in his honor. St. Alexius' feast day is July 17.
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