The Holy Rosary Home School Little Flowers Girl’s Club will be having a fundraiser – please plan to help this beautiful Catholic program by purchasing some goodies after morning Masses!

Please join us every third Saturday, 7-8:30 PM.

All parishioners and friends 60 years and older are invited to join us in Siena Hall for the annual Senior Luncheon. Please RSVP to the parish office at 503-235-3163 or to nora@holyrosarypdx.org.

Hey everyone! We are getting the Catholic youth out on the dance floor with monthly ballroom dancing! Everyone ages 16-29 are welcome to a great opportunity to meet other Catholics from different parishes in the area. Don't let not knowing how to dance stop you from coming! We will have basic swing and waltz sessions every week so that everyone will have the opportunity to dance. I hope to see you all on the dance floor!  Join us every second Sunday (some exceptions), 7:00-10:00 PM in Siena Hall. Please dress in semi-formal attire, $3 cover charge at the door.

Led by Fr. Vincent Kelber, O.P. & Janine Applegate in Siena Hall

ASSIGNMENT: Children of Men by P.D. James

Fr. Brian Mullady, OP

How Awesome is This Place, The House of God

Fr. Mullady will examine how the physical dedication of the Church represents the order of the universe in worship of the living God, the nature of Transubstantiation and how the holiness of the House of God should be mirrored in the interior worship and order of the Christian soul.

Fr. Brian Thomas Becket Mullady is the son of an Air Force officer and was raised throughout the United States. He entered the Dominican Order in 1966 and was ordained in Oakland, California in 1972. He has been a parish priest, high school teacher, retreat master, mission preacher and university professor. He received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD) from the Angelicum University in Rome, Italy and was professor there for six years. He has taught at several colleges and seminaries in the United States. He is currently a mission preacher and retreat master for the Western Dominican Province. He also teaches two months of the year at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT. He has had fourteen series on Mother Angelica's EWTN television network. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and writes the Answer column in Homiletic and Pastoral Review. He is also designed as an official Missionary of Mercy by Pope Francis.

Solemn High Mass according to the Dominican Rite

Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church

Edmund Rubbra's Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici

Sung by Cantores in Ecclesia

Luncheon to follow in Aquinas Hall

No 1:00 PM Mass

All high school aged children are invited to join us for High School Adoration on fourth Fridays of the month, 7:00-8:00 PM. A Pizza & Social hour will follow in Siena Hall.

"And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising" (Isaiah 60:3).

All Catholics, and anyone of Anglican, Episcopalian, and Methodist backgrounds, are invited to join us in celebrating Evening Prayer according to the rich and ancient liturgical tradition of the English Catholic patrimony. Prayer begins at 7:30pm on January 24th in the church immediately after adoration. Enter through the side door of the church. Fellowship to follow in Siena Hall. For more information, please contact ordinariatepdx@gmail.com.

Dr. Robert Bunting

The Holy Rosary Story: Back to the Future

The history of Holy Rosary Church in Portland, Oregon, provides a picture of Catholicism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to today through the lived experience of an actual parish. Yet Holy Rosary’s is also a unique story, framed by the Order of Preachers and its geographical context. It is a history that allows for a better understanding and appreciation of who we are, our indebtedness to those who preceded us, and our obligation to faithfully maintain and pass on a Catholicism of organic development that has contemporaneously made Holy Rosary a exemplar blue-print of authentic Catholic renewal, and the embodiment of the “Benedict Option” that Eastern-Orthodox journalist Rod Dreher has popularized to describe what is necessary for the revitalization of the Church and the world.

Robert Bunting Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The author and editor of numerous book and journal articles, Dr. Bunting also taught History at California State University, Chico, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Davis.

Please join us every third Saturday, 7-8:30 PM.

Hey everyone! We are getting the Catholic youth out on the dance floor with monthly ballroom dancing! Everyone ages 16-29 are welcome to a great opportunity to meet other Catholics from different parishes in the area. Don't let not knowing how to dance stop you from coming! We will have basic swing and waltz sessions every week so that everyone will have the opportunity to dance. I hope to see you all on the dance floor!  Join us every second Sunday (some exceptions), 7:00-10:00 PM in Siena Hall. Please dress in semi-formal attire, $3 cover charge at the door.

All 3rd-8th grade children are invited to join us for Children's Adoration on second Fridays of the month, 7:00-8:00 PM. A Pizza & Social hour will follow in Siena Hall.

Holy Rosary's High School Youth Fellowship Group will be meeting on second Fridays of the month from 7-9 PM. All 14-18 year old teens are invited to enjoy music, fun, food, and fellowship in the classrooms in Siena Hall. Questions? Contact Fr. Gabriel at gabriel@holyrosarypdx.org.

Led by Fr. Vincent Kelber, O.P. & Janine Applegate in Siena Hall

ASSIGNMENT: In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

Confessions 7 PM

Dominican Rite Low Mass 7:30 PM

NEW YEAR'S EVE: 31 DECEMBER, MONDAY

5:30 PM Vigil Mass of Mary, Mother of God followed by Exposition until 10:00 PM

SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD / NEW YEAR'S DAY: 1 JANUARY, TUESDAY

Holy Day of Obligation

9:00 AM Mass at Calaroga

10:00 AM Mass

A Memorial Mass for the unborn and all children who have died without baptism will be held on Friday, December 28 at 7:00 PM. In the prayer of the Mass, we will offer prayers entrusting these children to the mercy of God and for the healing of men, women, and families who have experienced the pain of losing a child for whatever reason.

All Catholics, especially those of Anglican, Episcopalian, and Methodist backgrounds, are invited to join us in celebrating Evening Prayer according to the rich and ancient liturgical tradition of the English Catholic patrimony. Prayer begins at 7:30 PM on December 27th in the church immediately after adoration. Fellowship and drinks to follow in Siena Hall. For more information, please contact ordinariatepdx@gmail.com.

Monday, December 24

5:30 PM Vigil Mass of Christmas

11:30 PM Carol Concert

Tuesday, December 25

12:00 AM Christmas Mass at Midnight, sung by Cantores in Ecclesia

7:00 AM Christmas Mass at Dawn

9:00 AM Christmas Mass

11:00 AM Solemn High Mass according to the Dominican Rite, sung by Cantores in Ecclesia

RORATE CAELI MASS: SPECIAL ADVENT MASS IN HONOR OF OUR LADY

The Rorate Caeli Mass is a traditional Advent devotion wherein the Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent is offered just before dawn. On December 15 at 6:00 AM, the Dominican Friars will offer a sung Solemn High Mass. A simple reception will follow. The Mass takes its title, Rorate Caeli, from the first words of the Introit, which are from Isaiah 45:8: “Rorate, caeli, desuper, et nubes…” (Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior.) The Rorate Mass is lit only by candlelight. Because it is a votive Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, white vestments are worn instead of Advent violet. In the dimly lit setting, priests and faithful prepare to honor the Light of the world, Who is soon to be born, and offer praise to God for the gift of Our Lady. As the Mass proceeds and sunrise approaches, the church becomes progressively brighter, illumined by the sun as our Faith is illumined by Christ. Please note that the regularly scheduled 8:00 AM Mass will be cancelled that day.

Due to December’s schedule, we have combined the Children’s and High School Adoration this month. All children and teens from 3rd grade through high school are invited to spend an hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament on Friday, December 14 at 7 PM, followed by a Pizza Social in Siena Hall.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, which provides a remarkable synthesis of the essential Catholic moral teachings. Presenters and panelists will explore the historical context of the document, its theological content, and its ongoing relevance for the Church and world today. 

Presenters and Panelists: 
Fr. Brian Mullady, OP 
Fr. Todd Molinari 
Dr. Sarah Bartel 
Fr. Timothy Furlow

Hey everyone! We are getting the Catholic youth out on the dance floor with monthly ballroom dancing! Everyone ages 16-29 are welcome to a great opportunity to meet other Catholics from different parishes in the area. Don't let not knowing how to dance stop you from coming! We will have basic swing and waltz sessions every week so that everyone will have the opportunity to dance. I hope to see you all on the dance floor!  Join us every second Sunday (some exceptions), 7:00-10:00 PM in Siena Hall. Please dress in semi-formal attire, $3 cover charge at the door.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Holy Day of Obligation

DECEMBER 7

7:00 PM SOLEMN HIGH MASS according to the Dominican Rite

Gabriel Faure's Messe Besse sung by Cantores in Ecclesia

Reception to follow in Siena Hall

DECEMBER 8

8:00 AM Mass

9:00 AM Mass at Calaroga Terrace

Led by Fr. Vincent Kelber, O.P. & Janine Applegate in Siena Hall
ASSIGNMENT: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Fr. Paul Aquinas Duffner, OP

April 14, 1915 - November 29, 2018

ROSARY AND VESPERS FOR THE DEAD:

December 3, 7:00 PM at Holy Rosary Church

SOLEMN REQUIEM MASS:

December 4, 12:00 PM at Holy Rosary Church

FR. PAUL AQUINAS DUFFNER WAS THE ELDEST FRIAR of the Western Dominicans.  He was also one of the few to have served at the limits of the Western Province’s ministries.  “It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast,” he laughed, when he contrasted the snow that greeted him at Holy Family Parish in Anchorage, Alaska, to the tropical jungles that were his home for the eight years he served as a missionary in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.  Those years in Mexico were very happy. “The native people were so open.  I loved my time there, and I have missed it a lot.”  He states that he would have liked to stay, but simply could not because of the changing nature of the Mission, so he asked to come home.  What he returned to was a ministry he had undertaken shortly after his ordination in 1935: promoting devotion to the Rosary.  “I was assigned to St. Dominic Parish, in San Francisco, and we had a number of small, individual societies focused on the Rosary,” Fr. Duffner recalled.  “I thought, ‘why not bring them together and write a common bulletin for their meditation?’”  What Fr. Duffner could not have foreseen was the success of his venture.  In 1975, when Fr. Duffner returned from Mexico to assume the reins as pastor at Holy Rosary Parish in Portland, Oregon, he joined forces with Fr. Thomas Feucht, who had six years earlier begun publishing Light and Life: Theology for the Laity.  The result was a newsletter that is sent around the globe.  Today, the newsletter has over 35,000 subscribers. One year, when North American Dominican leaders of the Rosary devotion met with the Dominican Order’s director from Rome, all were astounded at the Western Province’s nearly eighty-year history of careful, organized and developed efforts to promote devotion to the Rosary.  Thanks to Fr. Duffner, the Western Province’s results are unique, but what is perhaps more impressive was Fr. Duffner’s ability to accomplish this while working as secretary to the Provincial, serving as pastor and overseeing a major building project, and serving for sixteen years as the Western Province’s novice master.  The latter is the ministry for which Fr. Duffner is best known among his Dominican brothers, but it is one he himself shrugged off.  “I think I enjoyed working with the natives of Mexico more,” he said, “but there were some real similarities.  The young men who come to us are looking for something, and it was a real honor to be with them at the beginning of their search, and to share what one’s learned through prayer and experience in the religious life.” Throughout his religious life Fr. Duffner embraced a dedication to duty.  Although he formally retired as Director of the Rosary Center in 2004, he loyally served its ministry.  Each day he made his way – by foot, walker, and wheelchair – to the Center, where he painstakingly entered names of newly-enrolled members of the Rosary Confraternity.  Even as he approached his hundredth birthday, his handwriting was awe-inspiring! He also put together packets of booklets too small to be sold individually.  At first, he counted the texts; later he was able to save time by weighing the booklets on a postage scale.  Until age forced him to abandon some of his priestly ministry, Fr. Duffner was one of Holy Rosary’s most eagerly-sought confessors.  He was also a remarkable preacher, once observing

Forgiveness is the one type of alms we can always give.  It is a form of charity that can be exercised at any time by any one, be he rich or poor, young or old, sick or healthy.  If we cannot manage this type of almsgiving, our poverty is much greater than being in want of money, food, clothing, or shelter.

Fr. Duffner’s death deprives us of a beloved friend on earth, but his new intimacy with the Blessed Virgin, whom he served so loyally, and for so long, makes him our powerful advocate in heaven.  May he rest in peace, and may we rejoice always in his care for us!

                                                                                     – Fr. Reginald Martin, O.P.

REV. HIEROMONK MAXIMOS DAVIES

Theosis is the process of growth in holiness with an aim toward likeness and union with God, by the Byzantine Catholic and Easern Orthodox Churches. As a process of transformation, theosis is brought about by the effects of the purification of mind and body and seeking God in prayer. According to Eastern Catholic teaching, theosis is very much the purpose of human life and the universal path of Christian holiness. 

Born in the small town of Nowra on the New South Wales South Coast, Australia, Hieromonk Maximos was ordained a priest in 2006, and is currently the Protos and Treasurer at Holy Resurrection Monastery in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, an Eastern Catholic Monastery in the tradition of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church here in America. He holds a Masters in Orthodox Christian Studies through the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA; during his studies he lived with the Dominican community at St. Albert’s Priory.

"THE Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him" (Hab. 2:20).

All Catholics, and anyone of Anglican, Episcopalian, and Methodist backgrounds, are invited to join us in celebrating Evening Prayer according to the rich and ancient liturgical tradition of the English Catholic patrimony. Prayer begins at 7:30pm on November 29th in the church immediately after adoration. Enter through the side door of the church. Fellowship to follow at LABrewatory 670 N Russell St, Portland, OR 97227. For more information, please contact ordinariatepdx@gmail.com.

Please join Fr. Gabriel Mosher, OP for the next Drinks with Dominicans. Appetizers included! Space is limited - please RSVP to katie@holyrosarypdx.org.