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Our Lady of the Rosary Church

"And (the angel Gabrial) came to her and said 'Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you'"
Luke 1:28

3233 Cowper Street


Click here for results of OLR Mass time survey

Our Lady of the Rosary church (OLR) was built in 1955 in the then fast-growing residential area south of Oregon Avenue. Located three miles from downtown Palo Alto, the seven-acre site now includes the church, the parish’s Pastoral Center, the Dermody Center, which houses the Youth/Religious Coordinator offices and meeting rooms, and an eight-classroom school building now leased to the International School of the Peninsula.

OLR is on Cowper Avenue, and the Pastoral Center fronts Middlefield Road on the same property. Behind the Pastoral Center is the pastoral garden.

We welcome all to our daily morning Mass (8:30 am, M-F). There is also a 9:00 am Sunday Mass in Spanish, and a 10:30 am Sunday Mass in English.

In February, 2006, the parish completed a major sanctuary improvement project at OLR in which the sanctuary was enhanced by a floor of mission tiles, the installation of new pews, new lights, a new altar and ambo (pulpit), and a new projection system for displaying hymns.


Our Lady of the Rosary Church



Below are some pictures of facets of the church's interior.

    

Our Lady of the Rosary
The OLR Hall Windows.
Our Lady of Guadalupe 


A note on the patron of the church
Our Lady, the mother of Jesus, was an object of devotion from the earliest times of the church. By about 800 AD Christian prayer devotion began to be expressed as a regular series of prayers, usually expressed as a set count of "Paternosters" or "Our Fathers"using stones or beads as counters. Indeed, in 1075 the Countess Godiva of Coventry left by will to the statue of Our Lady in a monastery "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord...",. The explicit use of a prayer based on the angelic salutation, Hail Mary, (Luke 1:28) dates from before c. 1030. The picture of Our Lady of the Rosary comes from a vision of St. Dominic in 1213.

The Rosary remains a most popular form of Catholic prayer.

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3290 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Tel: 650-494-2496