NOTICE: The Paschal Triduum at Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated privately by the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist. As a result, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil Liturgies will not be open to the public per order of His Excellency, Bishop John Iffert. Please respect this ruling of the head of the church of Covington.
The Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes will begin public liturgies on Easter Sunday with Masses at 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM under the direction of the Pastoral Administrator, Fr. Matthew Cushing. A Blessed Pascha to all of you!
NOTICE: If you are looking for information on the Personal Latin Mass Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, the button here will take you to their website.
Many teachers of the holy Faith have declared that most saints are prayed to for some particular need, such as praying to St. Christopher for safe travels. But as for St. Joseph, he has received universal power to come to our aid in all our wants of body and soul. We, along with the great Carmelite mystic, St. Teresa of Jesus, know the power of the greatest of Patriarchs:
I am astonished at the great favors which God has bestowed on me through this blessed saint, and at the perils from which He has freed me, both in body and in soul. To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace to help us in some of our necessities but of this glorious saint my experience is that he helps us in them all and that the Lord wishes to teach us that as He was Himself subject to him on earth (for, being His guardian and being called His father, he could command Him) just so in Heaven He still does all that he asks.
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Note that a few of these pictures are of the initial clay model and the original (found at St. John the Baptist in Needham Market, East Anglia)
Please note that not all the angels have been paid for in case you would like to help...
they ended up costing about $3,500 each.
Note: the windows with the Fleur d'lys are the restored and improved windows . . .
Please note that not all the windows have been paid for in case you would like to help...
they ended up costing about $7000 for each opening, which has two window spears.
These windows can have a memorial name for each.
Prayer in Time of Affliction
Blessed, O Lord, be Thy Name forever, Who has permitted this affliction to come upon us. We cannot escape it, but must of necessity fly to Thee to help us and turn it to our good.
Lord, we are now in affliction. Our souls are ill at ease, for we are much troubled with this present
suffering. Let it please Thee, O Lord, to deliver us, for, poor wretches that we are, what can we do without Thee? Thy mighty Hand can do all things.
Give us patience, O Lord, and strength and peace. Help us, O God, and we will not fear, no matter how
grievously we may be afflicted. O Lord, “Thy Will be done!” Welcome be the Will of God! Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place our trust in Thee