rosarysunday

Rosary Sunday

Planning Meetings

Saturday, September 20

8:30 Mass at St. Mary's

9:30 A.M. - General Meeting at St. Mary's

231 North 3rd Street, Social Hall

Continental Breakfast

Hosted by Arizona State Catholic Daughters of the Americas

served by Ct. Our Lady of Guadalupe, 2250

Plan to be there — We need your assistance!

ROSARY SUNDAY 2008

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12

CELEBRATING 33 YEARS

in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes, and

commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII.

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Bus Transportation

Sponsoring a bus for parishioners to attend Rosary Sunday is a wonderful way to support this annual celebration. Through the years people who have been involved in getting a bus have shared their experiences on sponsoring a bus and making arrangements.

Search out best bus deal--sometimes the prices can be negotiated. Refer to listings below.

After final arrangements have been made and the charge per person is established, advertise weekly in your

parish bulletin. Keep the ad in the parish bulletin until bus is full.

Sell tickets. If passengers buy tickets they are more likely to attend.

Go to meetings at your parish and talk up attending Rosary Sunday by bus. Sell tickets.

Have passengers arrive at designated area 15-20 minutes before departure. It is better to wait for the bus

rather than the bus wait for passengers. (Keep hourly cost down)

Instruct attendees to sit and stay together as a group at the Rosary Sunday. There will be a designated

area for bus people.

Put a large sign in the window of the bus designating this is your parish bus

Make sure you have bus instruction for your driver. John Reichenberger will have instructions.

Two parishes can share a bus.

10. Organizations within your parishes might like to help subsidize the bus cost.

...It is important to reserve a bus 1 1/2 months early. The cost of bus rentals will be higher than last year due to the cost of gas, plus a fuel surcharge. Here is a list of the bus lines that have been used in the past:

Student First (formerly Laidlaw) Bus Lines,

Kathy 602-484-7646.

Southwest Charter Lines, 480-890-9872.

Arrow Bus Lines Dortha Harris 602-437-3484.

School buses are an excellent means of transportation to Rosary Sunday. Their fee is usually nominal.

Please tell your bus driver that a free lunch will be served to them at St. Vincent de Paul. Click here for the map to get from Convention Center to St. Vincent's

If you are getting a bus for Rosary Sunday (or have any questions regarding getting a bus, please let John Reichenberger know so that we can give you (and your bus driver) the final bus instructions. We also need to know how many busses are coming.

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Advertising

Advertising in our Rosary Sunday Program Book is our major source of income. It is a tremendous job to put the Rosary Sunday Program Book together. The earlier the ads are placed, the easier it is to complete the program book and thus keep expenses down. Please help us with this endeavor by securing ads for the program book NOW! If forms are needed, click below.

It is our hope that all organizations, parishes and groups will be represented in the Rosary Sunday Program Book. (to see examples, click here)

Display ads: Regular (business, church, organization) ads that are printed in the

program book.

Individual ads: These are donations in various categories on special pages in the

program book.

These pages are a giant step in reaching our goal to provide the necessary income for Rosary Sunday expenses, which have increased dramatically the last few years. Your support is most needed.

A Special Invitation to Youth

All k-8 students (school and R.E.) are invited to participate in the Rosary Sunday Poster Contest by submitting a free-hand drawing The theme will be posted soon. For Rules of the poster contest, go to Poster Contest Webpage

R.E. Programs and Catholic Schools are invited to be part of the Grand Procession also. Each group will be blessed as they process by the Bishop. The procession will open the inside Rosary Sunday program at 2 p.m. Those participating in the procession need to arrive no later than 12:45 p.m. in order to obtain seats and to join in the procession. Check-in table closes at 1:00 p.m. Click here to register.

School banners are welcome and encouraged. Click here to register for the Grand Blessing Procession.

September 8, 2007

This letter is to extend an invitation

to the Altar Servers of your parish

to participate in the Diocesan Rosary Sunday celebration on October 12, 2008. It will be an honor for your servers, grade school and high school students to participate in this annual program. They will remember it for many years. It will let them experience the larger church of Phoenix and meet Altar Servers from other parishes. It may even encourage them to investigate the possibility of a religious vocation. Your Altar Servers will have the opportunity to meet Bishop Olmsted, keynote speaker Fr. John Hampsch, CMF, and other priests in the Diocese.

The servers will be in the procession with Bishop Olmsted and also be in the Blessed Sacrament Possession. Last year over 130 Altar Servers participated.

Dr. Joseph Kimbuende and his assistants will greet the Altar Servers as they enter Hall F at the Phoenix Convention Center. The servers will be instructed on how to serve at this special event.

The Diocesan Rosary Sunday will take place on October 12. The servers should arrive before 1:15 P.M. at Hall F of the Phoenix Convention Center. Each server should bring what they normally wear when serving Mass; for example, their robe, cassock, cincture and so forth.

Servers who participate will receive a Miraculous Medal blessed by Pope Benedict XVI. We hope that you will have a large number of your servers take part in this historic event. If you have any questions please contact Dr. Joseph Kimbuende or Deacon Pat Flyn.

Respectfully yours,

Deacon Pat Flynn

Corpus Christi Parish

Rosary Sunday Dinner

Saturday, October 11,

Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral

4:30 Mass, 5:30 Holy Hour

Dinner at 6:30, Catered by Sharko's

$20 a plate

Evening will include:

Fr. John Hampsch, CMF, speaker

Dinner, Entertainment and Talk

click here for dinner registration form

To register by phone, call Carol at 623-536-9735

Make checks payable to Rosary Sunday Fund

Ushers Needed

Grand Knights are urged to provide ushers for Rosary Sunday 2008. The Convention Center requests that we have more ushers than last year. An event of this magnitude in honor of Our Lady certainly warrants a great response. Please click here to cantact Bob Krejci.

Novena for Success of Rosary Sunday Begin in August

O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comforter of the afflilcted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings, look with mercy on me.

By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors; and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal.

I come, therefore, with complete confidence to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain, O loving Mother, the grant of my requests. Through gratitude for your favors, I will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that I may one day share your glory. Amen.

Please put the following in your parish bulletin:

Rosary Sunday 2008, October 12,

the annual Diocesan Rosary Sunday will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center, Hall F & G

3rd St. and Washington, Southeast corner

from 2:00 - 4:15 P.M.

To learn how you or your organization can help or participate,

click here: Mario (Bi-lingual)

WANTED: Holy Cards, prayer books, holy pictures, medals, YARN. etc.

These items can be used in prison ministry and for the homeless in the Phoenix area. Please bring them to Rosary Sunday 2008. We will have boxes for them near the Catholic Daughter table.

Families With Roses Representing Parishes

Each parish is invited to select a family to represent it in the blessing procession. This family is to bring a rose. Let us know who the family is that will be representing your parish. We will send additional information to them.

Rosary Sunday Pins with Our Lady of Lourdes will be available Suggested donation $5 each. Make check to the Rosary Sunday Fund and mail to:

Rosary Sunday/RFR

P. O. Box 17484

Phx., AZ 85011.

Dear Pastor/Altar Server
Coordinator,

How You Can Make a Difference

The following are ways you can help make Rosary Sunday a magnificent celebration in honor of Our Lady.

Make sure your parish and school have Rosary

Sunday on their calendar.

Make copies of this newsletter and distribute to

other ministries in your parish.

Announce Rosary Sunday at meetings and

encourage everyone to attend.

Pray for the success of Rosary Sunday. Ask the

members or your parish to do so also.

For a sample of the sizes and how the ads will look in the Program Book,

click here.

Get your Ad form for the Program Book:

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