What is the Annual Catholic Appeal? The Annual Catholic Appeal is about being Catholic and recognizing there are priests and deacons to be trained, social services for the needy and poor to be offered, Catholic schools to sustain and grow, retired priests and nuns to support and so much more!
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“Adore and Praise the immense love Jesus has for you in this Sacrament of Himself… He comes from heaven for you personally, to offer you companionship and consolation.” – Peter Julian Eymard Perpetual Adoration is a Eucharistic devotion whereby members of Our Lady Star of the Sea parish unite in taking hours of adoration before […]
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The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, or the Opus Dei, the Work of God, is a prayer of the Church to which we are all joined by the grace of the Sacrament of Baptism. Composed of Psalms, canticles, antiphons and prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours finds its historical roots […]
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The First Friday Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is based on a promise made by Our Lord Jesus Christ during an Apparition to St. Margaret Mary. This promise was implicitly approved by the Church in the 1920 canonization of St. Margaret Mary. The promise reads: I promise you in the excessive Mercy of […]
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“Say the Rosary every day… Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners… I’m Our Lady of the Rosary. Only I will be able to help you. …In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph.” The Rosary is prayed in community at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church: Monday through Thursday after the […]
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The Extraordinary Form of the Mass, or “Traditional Latin Mass” is celebrated twice a month at Our Lady Star of the Sea. Pope Benedict XVI wrote about the Latin Mass in his Moto Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of […]
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