Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church

Live Streaming of Daily Mass and devotionals is happening on Facebook! Please click the following link to go to https://whttps://www.facebook.com/pg/stmaryfred/videos/?ref=page_internalww.facebook.com/stmaryfred/ to watch our current or past live streams of Mass, the rosary, and the Divine Mercy chaplet!  You are not required to create a Facebook Account to watch, just follow the link! The schedule is as follows:

Daily Mass:  9am Every Day

Sunday Mass: 9am in English, 12pm in Spanish

Divine Mercy Chaplet:  3pm Every Day

Rosary: 6:30pm Every Day

The events remain up after the Live Stream, so you can watch them and pray along at whatever time is convenient.

Confessions will continue to be heard at the normally scheduled times but in the PLC, not the church.  Confessions are heard at 12:30pm and 6:30pm on Wednesdays, 8am and 3:30pm on Saturdays.  Please obey the instructions of the volunteer at the door.

The church is open Monday thru Saturday from 7am until 10pm for Adoration, with brief closures intermittently for sacramental needs.  Sunday the church is open from 10am-10pm.  No more than 10 people are allowed in the church at any time, so please count the number of people before you enter.

The church will be closed at 11:30am on Tuesday May 12 at 11:30 until 1pm for a funeral Mass.  Adoration will continue afterwards.

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has asked all believers to join with the High Committee for Human Fraternity and make May 14 a day of prayer for the world in response to Covid-19.  More detail can be found at the Vatican Press Office linked here.

Livestream of Mass can be found by clicking HERE

Please note the church will be closed until 1pm on Sunday for Live Streaming of Masses.

Dear Folks,

Today is Mother’s Day! Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers: biological, adoptive, spiritual, godmothers. I assure you of my prayers and blessing. I offer this lovely quote from Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty:

“The Angels have not been blessed with a such a grace. They cannot share in God’s Creative miracle to bring new Saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation.”

This, Mother’s Day is, of course, unlike any other we have experienced. What are your usual customs? Big gathering of family, fancy dinner out, Sunday Mass together? All swept away by the CoronaVirus.While we can’t have our customary celebrations, we can certainly honor our mothers.

Pray. Any gift you can give will have some value only during this life. However, every prayer rises to God where it is like a lovely imperishable flower adorning the throne of Glory. Every single one. Because it is received by the eternal Lord, it enters into His eternal plan of love.

“Rosarium … signifying properly a collection or garland of roses…. In the course of time the name was specially appropriated to a string of Paternosters and Ave Marias to be recited in a certain order in honor of the fifteen mysteries of our Lord in which the Virgin was a partaker, and from the collection of prayers the name was transferred to the string of beads used for the purpose of keeping count in the recitation.”

Pick Flowers from your yard. Thirty some years ago I picked tiny wild-flowers for my mother on a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine. They are pressed and framed in my parents home to this day. She received many more lovely arrangements of roses, but those tiny flowers were treasured.

Make a card by hand.

However you say it, let it be known: “Moms, we love you and thank God for you.”

Pax et bonum,

Fr. Mosimann