It’s not unusual for an archbishop to visit any of his parishes to administer the sacrament of confirmation or to make a pastoral visit to personally meet the priests and parishioners. On Sunday June 10, 2017, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will be administering confirmations at the main church in our parish, Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay.
What is unusual is that he will return to our parish on June 25, making a special visit to Our Lady of Refuge to offer our Sunday Mass here in La Honda. The parish of Our Lady of the Pillar is the largest in land area in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and is comprised of the main parish church in Half Moon Bay and the two mission churches, St. Anthony's in Pescadero and Our Lady of Refuge in La Honda. Because of the distance between the three churches in the parish, it was too difficult for the archbishop to visit Our Lady of Refuge during his pastoral visitation to the parish two years ago. Parishioners were asked to attend either his Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar or his Mass at St. Anthony’s in Pescadero. Now he will finally be visiting our church. And it works out well in the end, because since the pastoral visit when he could not come to Our Lady of Refuge, we have gotten a beautiful new floor!
The parish community of Our Lady of Refuge is extremely honored that Archbishop Cordileone is making this special visit to our little mission church.
For more information call Mary at 650-559-9344.
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