Holy Rosary
Catholic Church
Served by the Scalabrinian
missionaries since 1890
911 E. Missouri Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
Images from the Feast of Our Lady of
the Audience, Sunday, May 18
The Catholic Key published an article about this year's feast.
Welcome to Holy Rosary Parish
where you will enjoy a taste of Italian spirituality. The colorful stained glass windows, the 26 statues of Mary and saints, the richness of marble altars and memorial plaques place you in an Italian spiritual environment.
When the church was founded, the Holy Rosary neighborhood was solidly Italian. The second and third generations grew up and married and moved out of the neighborhood often with their parents. This migration in turn made room for new migrants, first Cubans and then Vietnamese.
In 1950 as the Scalabrini Missionaries extended their mission goal to include all migrants, a Vietnamese priest moved and lived at Holy Rosary rectory for 15 years and provided the pastoral care to the Vietnamese community. In June 1988, the Vietnamese community was given a personal parish and the Vietnamese priest became the pastor.
The service in Vietnamese at Holy Rosary was discontinued, but the people who live in our area and others who have been attending Holy Rosary still participate in our church services. They feel themselves to be a vital part of our family community and so do we. Since the majority of the participants at our weekday masses are Vietnamese, we provide the gospel reading in Vietnamese and we will do the same at the Sunday masses beginning with the Advent season 2004.
Holy Rosary also has ties to the pastoral ministry to the Hispanic residents in the area. In 1998, at the request of the diocese, the Scalabrini Missionaries appointed another priest at Holy Rosary to provide the pastoral ministry to the Hispanic population of the Northeast deanery and the Columbus Park neighborhood. In 2003, another priest was added at Holy Rosary as the animator of the Hispanic ministry in the archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas.
We invite you to join us. Please feel free to take a
look at our weekly bulletin and join us for mass. We've included
our mass schedule for your convenience. Please join us!
Fr. Joseph Vicentini, cs
Weekday Mass Schedule
Weekday Masses, 8:00 a.m.
Mass Schedule
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.(pre-festive)
Sunday, 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Holy Days, 6:30 p.m.(vigil), 11:30 a.m.(Feast Day)
Please consult the bulletin for schedule changes on Feast Days.
Confessions
Saturday, 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Anytime by appointment.
Annual Parish Celebrations
Our Lady of the Audience, May 18, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
Feast of the Holy Rosary, October 5, 2008, 11:00 a.m.