TONIGHT:
“She Is Indeed Our Mother”:
A Holy Hour in Honor of Our Lady of Fatima
Tuesday, May 17 | 6:00–7:00 p.m.
The parish’s monthly holy hour will focus on Our Lady of Fatima, whose feast day is celebrated this month (May 13). This feast commemorates apparition of the Virgin Mary to Portuguese shepherd children (1917).
The format of the holy hour will be Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction, and will include the Office of Readings from the Liturgy of the Hours. According to a sermon by St. Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167), an English monk, which will be proclaimed in the Office of Readings, the Virgin Mary “is indeed our mother, for through her we have been born, not for the world but for God.”