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Today’s Mass for the Solemnity of the Annunciation will be livestreamed from St. Albert the Great Priory Chapel at 5:00pm PDT. Click here to watch the Mass.

Fr. James Thompson, O.P., Prior of St. Albert the Great Priory, will be the preacher.

SUNDAY MASS LIVESTREAM: March 29, 9:30am (PDT)
Sunday Mass for March 29th will again be livestreamed from St. Albert the Great Priory. To watch, simply click here.


Know of our solidarity with you during this pandemic.

Sincerely in Christ and St. Dominic,
Dominican Friars
Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus

P.S. Here is the link to masses at Holy Rosary.

For protection and healing from the COVID-19 Pandemic

March 19 – 27

“In prayer the Holy Spirit unites us to the person of the only Son, in his glorified humanity, through which and in which our filial prayer unites us in the Church with the Mother of Jesus.” (CCC #2673)

Fr. Joseph Sergott, OP, the Director of the Rosary Center and the Promoter of the Rosary Confraternity in the West, will celebrate a special Mass each day for these intentions and your intentions. He also invites bishops and priests to join the Novena by celebrating Mass in their private chapels.

We ask you to participate fully in the Novena by:

1) Making a Spiritual Communion each day during the Novena, and
2) By praying the Rosary each day during the Novena.

Daily Mass is available on EWTN. We will not be streaming the Mass at the Rosary Center. Also, masses available from the Archdiocese of Portland. And here is the Western Dominican Province’s Corona virus resources page.

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has issued special indulgences in light of the worldwide pandemic. Please see this!

Spiritual Communion:
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

St. Alphonsus Liguori (from ourcatholicprayers.com)

Novena Prayer

O Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, the Father chose you and entrusted to you the unique role of caring for Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son. As Mother of the Church, and Patron of the Universal Church, respectively, God continues to bless us with his grace through your intercession; thus, we ask for your intercession now, for the Lord’s guidance and protection in our time of need. Through this Novena of Masses and Rosaries, we pray for peace and freedom from anxiety, protection from COVID-19, for victims (living & deceased) of the virus and their families, health care workers, those working on treatments for the virus, those suffering economic hardship caused by the virus, civil and religious leaders that they make wise and prudent decisions, Rosary Confraternity Members (living & deceased), as well as the many intentions received through the Rosary Center and those held within the hearts of all who are participating in this Novena. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

(Mention Petitions)

(Pray your daily Rosary)

Dear Brothers & Sisters in St. Dominic,

Given the declared pandemic of the COVID-19 virus, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample has issued directives & dispensations. His communication to the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon is here.

In response to the Archbishop’s directives the Council of Holy Rosary Chapter has unanimously decided that the prudent action for our chapter is to cancel the March 22nd, 2020 Dominican Laity Chapter meeting. 

We pray that the effects of this illness will soon subside and that we will be able to meet as usual but in the meantime we will observe the directives recommended by our Archbishop Alexander Sample.

Our web page has Lenten News items that may enhance your Lenten reflections, messages from our Provincial Promoter, Augustine Hilander, O.P. and Denise Harvey, President of the Dominican Laity Provincial Council.

May the blessing of this Lenten Season bring us ever closer to our Risen Savior.

In the Love of Christ,
Cecelia

Cecelia Hoesly
Prioress of Dominican Laity, Holy Rosary Chapter
1331 NE 3rd Ave
PO Box 3617
Portland OR 97208-3617
503-236-8393
email: cecelia@rosary-center.org
website: www.rosarycenter.org

Over the last 800 years, the Order of Preachers has celebrated the holiness of 103 Saints and 374 Blesseds in the Dominican family. Their witness serves as a model for all of us, especially during Lent. So as we continue our observance of this holy season, may we be inspired by their words of wisdom and follow in their example, persevering in the disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

PRAYER

“For we pray in truth when we do not think about other matters. Thus the soul must first be purified, and thoughts about temporal concerns must be set aside, so that the pure eye of the heart may be directed truly and simply to the Lord.”
–Saint Albert the Great, O.P.

“Lift your heart and your thoughts a little to that sweet and most holy cross, in the face of which every burden is as nothing. Desire to endure a little temporal pain to be spared the eternal pain that we deserve for our sins. Be comforted by the love of Christ crucified.”
–Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P.

FASTING

“Fight the good fight, my children, against our ancient foe, fight him insistently with fasting, because no one will win the crown of victory without engaging in the contest in the proper way.”
–Saint Dominic de Guzman, O.P.

“Diligently set yourself apart from everything which lasts but a short time. Wisely purify yourself of everything which has the guise of creatures. Confidently be lifted heavenward with Christ. Firmly rule your natural self with prudence.”
–Blessed Henry Suso, O.P.

ALMSGIVING & CHARITY

“Often we do not know what we should do or what should desire, but charity teaches us everything necessary for salvation…This is because where charity is, there is the Holy Spirit who knows all things and who leads us in the right way. Charity effects perfect joy in a person. Likewise, charity effects perfect peace and gives a person great dignity.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P.

“Take care most diligently that you do not lose patience at work, or a readiness in obeying a command, or become negligent in performing works of charity. Always live in a state and with a conscience that is certain; never presume to live in a state in which you would be afraid to die.”
–Blessed Humbert of Romans, O.P.

PERSEVERANCE

“Now, my child, we are celebrating a season when running and enduring are more necessary than we are accustomed to. For when we consider the depth of the mystery of redemption presented to us during these days, how much more should we not endure and persevere!”
–Saint Catherine de’ Ricci, O.P.

“Stand firm with the road marker of contemplation, surrounded with the guideposts of penance. In the thought of your heart, descend into hell, and through that thought, ascend into heaven. Strengthened by this thought, turn your attention to the highway and concern yourselves with entering upon a safe road; strive zealously, lest you fall and lose your way.”
–Saint Louis Bertrand, O.P.

Original Post at opwest.org

via Denise Harvey, WDP LPC President, February 17, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Below is an email from Fr. Augustine, letting us know that the whole order is praying for us today.

Beautiful.

Please continue to keep Fr. Augustine in your prayers.

God bless you,

Denise

Dear brothers and sisters in St. Dominic,

During the last Dominican General Chapter in Vietnam, a prayer recommendation came up about praying a liturgical hour for each province and entity of the Order. Today, the 17th day of the even months, the whole order is praying for you. Our Dominican Priory in Seattle is praying midday prayer for you. May you thrive and grow in the graces of Jesus Christ and the charism of our Order.

This is the text of the prayer.

“Be with the Lay Dominicans as they follow Christ in the footsteps of St. Dominic; make them faithful to their calling and bless our Order with vocations.”

Peace,

Fr. Augustine, OP