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Today, Wednesday 7 October, is the Feast of the Holy Rosary, known in many places as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. The feast was established by Pope St. Pius V to commemorate the victory of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire at Lepanto in 1571. Mass will be celebrated at 5.30 pm, preceded by Evensong at 5.00 pm. Confessions will be heard beginning at 4.15 pm.

If you are interested in today’s feast day, and our Lady of Victories, and the Battle of Lepanto and its significance, please check out our community group page “Patrimony, Liturgy, and the Arts at OLSJ”. There is a link neat the top of this page.

O God, whose Only Begotten Son by his life, death, and Resurrection, hath purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation: grant, we beseech thee; that meditating upon the mysteries of the Rosary, our devotion may bud forth as the rose in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and that we may so follow the pattern of their teaching, that we may finally be made partakers of thy heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. ... See MoreSee Less