Been Busy

Sorry not much blogging this week. Things at Our Lady of the Rosary parish have been very busy, and I am in Providence, RI this week to preach a Lenten mission at Blessed Sacrament parish.

In the parish we are busily engaged in the capital campaign to build our new church--pictured here. The people of the parish have been trying to build their church for twenty years, and have raised a good amount of money so far, but we still have a long way to go.

The first phase of this campaign is a round of targeted visits in the parish to get us to the next threshold. Then another round of visits in the parish before we go into phase two--which will be a whole range of creative fund raising events. We hope this will get us to the point of commissioning the construction drawings and breaking ground.

Phase three will continue the fund raising to pay off the new building and finish the decoration and artwork that will go inside. It will also include the construction of a shrine to the Divine Mercy in the crypt of the new church.

Can you help? Here's how: take some time to learn more about our exciting church construction project. Go to the OLR website and read my articles on sacred architecture, meet the designers and talk up the project.

Tell people about our new church. Link to this post on your blog or link to the articles on architecture and talk it up. Put the pictures of the church on your blog or facebook page and talk it up. Publicity will help bring this project to the attention of those who will have the finances available to make a large donation.

And by the way, you can also make a big donation yourself if you want! The OLR website will take you to ParishPay, or you can send me an email to discuss now you can donate or make a pledge.