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Dear Family,
 
This Saturday is the 1^st of May, the optional memorial of St. Joseph the Worker and the first Saturday of the month, a day especially dedicated to our Blessed Mother to start the month dedicated to her. It is a beautiful tradition to make a May altar, a little shrine dedicated to our Lady with candles and flowers, of course there is the beautiful custom of the May Crowning. I am working out a date for this so that as many as possible may come.
Like last year, I am inviting you all to participate in our May Altar Project. At home make a May altar and send a photo in to the parish. We will share them with the parish through Flocknote, Facebook and a gallery on the website. This project is a beautiful way to share our love for our Lady and the different relationships we have with her. Perhaps you might share why you are fond of the image you chose.
During Holy Week, I needed a statue of our Lady for the Good Friday evening Devotion with the Hispanic Community. When I found the perfect one, I carried her back with my helper. Mesmerized by her face, I told my helper, “I think I loved our Lady before I loved our Lord.” She answered, “To Jesus through Mary.” I’ve always loved the Rosary as well; it was easy for me to pray it and I still love it. However, because there are prayers that I “have “to say, sometimes it’s hard to find the time to pray the prayers I “want” to say.  The month of May gives us an opportunity to take the rosary from a prayer we “want” to say and make it a prayer we “must” say. “Must” not because it will be a sin if we miss it or because there is an obligation,  but must because those 15 minutes with our Mother are essential.
As the busyness of Holy Week, Easter, and Confirmation are past, the necessity of the rosary is becoming more urgent. I thought this was just within my own spiritual life but I recently visited a lady who will soon turn 100, it was a lovely visit and she pressed upon me the importance of the rosary. Let us all make a commitment to the daily rosary, especially as a family. There are 5 Saturdays in May this year, if the rosary seems daunting-build up to it. This Saturday pray one decade or one mystery every day, the second pray two every day and so on, by the end of the month you will be praying the full rosary daily.
I share with you these quotes on the Rosary.
“The Rosary is a prayer that always accompanies me; it is also the prayer of the ordinary people and the saints... it is a prayer from my heart." - Pope Francis
 
 “The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual…”  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
 
“The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God…and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.” - Pope Saint Pius X
 
Your Father in Christ,
Father Estrella
 

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