Rosary Garden

The Rosary Garden became a reality due to the dedication of the wonderful OLPH parishioners. It was built with an all-volunteer crew. It started in response to a tragedy. A car accident claimed the lives of a mother and her 3 daughters. They were a family that attended OLPH Parish and often prayed the Rosary together. The parents of the mother (and grandparents of the daughters) - also members of the OLPH Parish - were lost in grief and looking for something to help with the healing. An idea began to develop. Build a Rosary garden in the area that was dried up weeds and grass between the church and the parish center. Father Steven Ryan agreed with the idea and the parish council accepted the plan. So the work began. Parish members were given the opportunity to pay for the different things needed for the garden by purchasing memorial bricks. Then the work began: finding a company that could make blue glass “beads”, designing the lay out, picking out the benches, ordering the decade markers. Many Saturdays were spent preparing the site, pouring the cement, planting the flowers, putting things in place. All the hard work has paid off. The garden is beautiful. It is maintained by volunteers. Donations are always accepted to help cover the cost of watering and maintaining this beautiful garden. The Rosary is prayed every Sunday at 10:00 AM in the garden {weather permitting} or in the parish center chapel.