Sunday 10 am English/ 11:30 am Spanish

Tues-Sat 11 am English

Wed 6:30 pm Spanish

Fridays at 5:30 Bilingual Stations of the Cross

Due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19,
and in accordance with the May 23 Order from the
Governor’s Office and guidance from the Washington State Department of Health, the Church is
closed to the public until at least April 7.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 
If you have any questions or need further
assistance please call: 509-754-3640 or 509-855-1806
In case of emergency please call: 650-468-1709
 

Dear Parishioners of St. Rose of Lima,
 
As we continue to pull together as a parish community during the current stay-at-home restrictions, we as the staff of St. Rose want to communicate with you to provide clarity and support. We hope to distill the most important information for you so you can understand what is pertinent for our parish:
 

• Parishioners should remain in their homes, with limited exceptions, until midnight on Monday, April 6.
• Daily Mass will continue to be live-streamed on Facebook Tuesday-Saturday at 11 a.m. and each Wednesday in Spanish at 6:30 p.m. Weekend Masses will be live-streamed on Sundays in English at 10 a.m. and Spanish at 11:30 a.m.
• There is a prohibition on “all public and private gatherings and multi-person activities for social, spiritual and recreational purposes, regardless of the number of people involved, except as specifically identified herein.”
• Here at St. Rose, that means there will be no confessions or public adoration as we have had the past two weekends. Instead, Bishop Tyson has instructed parishioners to make an act of perfect contrition. Education on this is included in the link below.

 
file:///C:/Users/Saint%20Rose%20of%20Lima/Downloads/Guide%20for%20making%20an%20Act%20of%20Perfect%20Contrition_Bilingual.pdf
 
Plenary Indulgence from Pope Francis
Pope Francis will give a special blessing tomorrow, March 27, at 10 a.m. eastern time. All those who participate spiritually by watching or listening to this blessing live through TV, radio or internet may receive a plenary indulgence. You can listen this on local Catholic radio at 88.7, KDMB. To watch this on the internet, use this link:
 
https://youtu.be/VJHI8bI0LWg
 
For a quick summary of indulgences, here is a brief primer, found on nwcatholic.org and drawn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (sections 1471–1479) and Pope Paul VI’s 1967 apostolic constitution Indulgentiarum Doctrina:
“An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.”
Christians obtain indulgences “through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins.”
Indulgences can remove some (partial) or all (plenary) of the temporal punishment due to sin. You can obtain indulgences for yourself or for someone who has died.
 
Please continue to pray for our parish community and if you have any questions or need support, please call us at (509) 754-4064. This is your parish and we are here to help.
 
St. Rose of Lima Parish staff

For those of you who are not on Facebook but would still like to watch Mass, we want to provide instructions for you to start you own Facebook account. You do not need to put any personal information or pictures on this page; it is just for you to access the livestream of Mass. All you need is an e-mail address and a phone number.
 
To start you own Facebook page, follow these instructions:
 

1. Go to www.facebook.com/r.php.
2. Enter your name, email or mobile phone number, password, date of birth and gender.
3. Click Sign Up.
4. To finish creating your account, you need to confirm your email or mobile phone number.
5. Once you are set up, look up St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church and hit the like button.

 
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. Feel free to share our Facebook page with others who would like to watch the Masses. Please continue to hold each other and the world in prayer and know of our prayers for you.
 
God’s blessings,
 
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ephrata, WA

LIGHT

        “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14). We are at the midpoint of our Lenten journey of conversion. As always, God never gives up on us, especially those who have “fallen asleep” along the road to conversion. The most powerful stories of conversion are proclaimed during these final weeks of Lent. They have the power to shake us out of our sleep. Today’s Gospel story of the healing of the man born blind exposes the real blindness in the time of Christ—the blindness of the self-righteous religious leaders. In a few weeks, at the Easter Vigil, the Church will proclaim “Christ our Light” as the paschal candle is carried into darkened churches throughout the world. May the darkness of sin that still pervades our lives, communities, and world, be dispelled by the Christ who comes to bring sight to the blind and light to the world.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

 

LUZ

        “Despierta, tú que duermes; levántate de entre los muertos y Cristo será tu luz” (Efesios 5:14). Estamos a medio camino en la jornada de Cuaresma para la conversión. Como siempre, Dios no se da por vencido con nosotros, especialmente con aquellos que “duermen” en el camino a la conversión. Los más grandes relatos de conversión se proclaman en estas semanas finales de la Cuaresma. Estos tienen el poder de sacudirnos de nuestro sueño. El relato del Evangelio de hoy sobre la curación del ciego de nacimiento expone la verdadera ceguera en tiempos de Cristo –la ceguera de los líderes religiosos que se creían muy buenos y justos. Dentro de pocas semanas, en la Vigilia Pascual, la Iglesia proclamará a “Cristo nuestra Luz” cuando el Cirio Pascual es llevado dentro de las iglesias oscuras de todo el mundo. Que la oscuridad del pecado que impregna nuestra vida, comunidades y nuestro mundo sea disipada por Cristo quien viene trayendo vista al ciego y luz al mundo.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
 
 

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