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Our Lady
Queen of Peace708 Erie Street Grafton, OH 44044BackForwardPauseCaption
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MISSION STATEMENT
We are a Roman Catholic family centered in the Eucharist, rooted in our immigrant traditions since the 1800’s and devoted to our Blessed Mother. Humbly guided by the Holy Spirit, and with the warmth and hospitality that springs from a small community, we seek to share our faith in Jesus Christ through prayer, devotion, education, stewardship, and service to others.
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Diocese/SpecialCollections 2022
Mortgage Reduction - Monthly
Helping Hands - August 2022
Peter's Pence - June 19 - July 3rd
If you are using E-Giving for your donations, please remember to setup a donation for the Diocese Collections and for our special collections (Mortgage Reduction & Helping Hands) as they come up if you have not already done so.
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Monday - Friday*
8:30am - 5:00pm
Lunch from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
*Hours subject to change
Closed Saturday and Sunday
Please call before you come to ensure someone will be here to meet you.
440-926-2364
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Fr. John’s News
In the Gospel this Sunday, (Luke 9:11b-17) we hear Jesus say to the twelve, “Give them some food yourselves.” Like the twelve, we can feel overwhelmed by the command to ‘give them some food yourselves.’ How can we provide physical, emotional, and spiritual food to meet the great demand in our time? God has placed us where we are to care for others, and he will provide what we need. It is also seeing that we are just one part of his plan. The following is a prayer by the late Bishop Kenneth Untener that he wrote following the murder of St Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1979. It is a good reflection on how we cannot nor are we meant to do it all. We plant the seeds that we may or may not ever see grow and bear fruit.
“Prophets of a Future Not Our Own”
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water the seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and to do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
-Fr. John
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An update from Bishop Malesic on keeping people safe against the COVID-19 virus
Data indicates that the rates of infection of the COVID-19 virus are rapidly dropping in our area and will continue to drop. As a result, local health care systems are lessening operational restrictions. Consequently, after consultation with local medical experts and a review of the latest information from public health officials, I offer these revised guidelines.
1. Signs may be removed from the church regarding the request to wear masks.
2. The mandate requiring masks to be worn during the distribution of Holy Communion is lifted.
3. Distribution of the Precious Blood to the congregation remains prohibited until further notice.
4. Concelebrants should use the intinction method or individual chalices should be provided.
While there is no mask mandate or recommendation now in in place in our parishes, if you are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or if you have serious health issues, please follow your doctor’s advice regarding wearing a mask and other ways to help protect yourself and others.
Those parishioners who are ill, have significant health risk factors or care for someone who is immune-compromised or ill, as well as those who have significant fear or anxiety about contracting the coronavirus in a large group of persons are not obliged to attend Mass.
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