Welcome to Our Lady of Victory

WELCOME FR. BOB KIEFFER FOR THE PARISH MASSES, AND WELCOME TO THE REC RETREAT LEADERS STAYING AT OUR FACIILITIES AND WORKING AT THE OTTER TAIL COUNTY JAIL THIS WEEKEND!

I will be part of the REC team…thanks for your  prayers  for  the inmates  and  everyone  on  REC to be touched, healed in some way and filled with God’s spirit through the prayer and workings of this retreat. It is a real privilege that we are allowed to come into this facility to share the message of the Gospel.  If you are interested in learning more about REC, and how to become a part of it, please contact Jeff or Diane Aschnewitz.

We continue praying our way through the October Month of the Rosary!  it is a beloved prayer of so many OLV parishioners, fittingly enough. It has been  commended to us by countless saints and holy people; it was the favorite prayer of Saint John Paul II.

In Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Pope John Paul II wrote:  “The Rosary…is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the  redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depths of His love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive  abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.”

We  have  rosary  pamphlets  available  at  the  church office  for  those  who  want  to  become more familiar with praying the rosary.  October is a good time for family and personal rosary prayer time.  If praying the rosary is an unfamiliar practice, start with one or two reflective decades.  It will be a true, spiritual blessing!