One of the first things visiting Holy Cross priests and seminarians note about our parish is how big and active we are - and they’re right! Whether it be our Sunday Masses, confessions, calls for anointing of the sick, baptisms, school enrollment, kids at religious education classes on Saturdays…. SJV is a busy corner of the Kingdom of God!

Every October we celebrate the Month of the Holy Rosary. This was particularly important to us growing up in northwestern Ohio, in the Diocese of Toledo. There our Patroness is Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary and we grew up with great devotion to this wonderful prayer. I know most of you did too, wherever you may have grown up.

The first prayer I recall learning was the “Angel of God.” Way before learning how to pray the Breviary (also called the Liturgy of the Hours or the Divine Office) in the seminary, there I was at 4 years old praying to my Guardian Angel with Mom & Dad at bedtime. I’m sure they were praying it for me every night from the day they brought me home from the hospital… and I just sort of “picked it up” over those many nights.