The dates for events in Lamar have already been available under the calendar tab for quite some time, but now you can download and share the 2024 year’s calendar right from here. We hope to see you there!

With heartfelt love, I thank you, Mother dear,with you to guide me I need have no fear.When all around seemed dark and drear and gray,you stood as beacon for a brighter day.Your smile illumined every wakeful hour,you did uphold me with your gentle power.Thanks, a thousand thanks to you, to God shall benow and for all eternity.Amen.

Greetings from the Confidentia Shrine,  With the falling of the leaves and the dreary weather, the month of November reminds us of our mortality: All Saints’ and Souls’ Day at the beginning of November and Christ the King on the last Sunday of the liturgical year evoke thoughtfulness and quiet contemplation. Due to the attack on Israel and the ongoing wars in the Holy Land and Ukraine, our contemplation is interrupted by ineffable suffering and death. News reports and commentaries speak a language of horrific, unbearable, inhuman revenge, retaliation, hatred, and annihilation. Warnings like conflagration and an impending world war …

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