In the Church's liturgy the divine blessing is fully revealed and communicated. The Father is acknowledged and adored as the source and the end of all the blessings of creation and salvation. In his Word who became incarnate, died, and rose for us, he fills us with his blessings. Through his Word, he pours into our hearts the Gift that contains all gifts, the Holy Spirit.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1082
“Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomine tuo da gloriam!”
(Not to us O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory!)
Psalm 115 (113)
Part of the mission of Holy Rosary parish is restoring the sacred. What does this mean?
In part, it means restoring the sense of the transcendent to the sacred liturgy. After all, this is the place where "heaven and earth kiss", where we ourselves are swept up into the eternal, heavenly liturgy in which our earthly liturgy is both a participation and a foretaste.
The Catholic Church has a rich, two thousand year history of worship and devotion, of art and architecture and music. This is our heritage, our patrimony. These great riches of the Church are not meant to be shelved in some museum or hoarded in some treasury; they meant to be shared with all.
And these riches are inexhaustible.
We are a Catholic parish practicing the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, but in the liturgical arts, we strive to bring the extraordinary to the Ordinary. Our ultimate desire as humans is for the Good, the Beautiful, and the True, who is Christ. Surely the One who is Goodness and Beauty and Truth should be worshipped in goodness, beauty, and truth?
[T]he liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows. For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord’s supper.
(Sacrosanctum Concilium 10)
In all that we do, we strive for the following:
“The only real gift man should give to God is himself.”
(Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy)