Please Let Us Know When Someone is in Hospital

When you or someone you love is in hospital, we would visit you, pray with you, and bring you the sacraments. However, due to privacy regulations, hospitals will not inform us when one of our parish family is in care. Please ask someone to call us at 788-5483, ext. 1. Thank you.

Book of Intentions

Near the main entrance we have placed a Book of Intentions. Here you are invited to write any prayer requests, whether prayers of petition, thanks, or other matters. Write whatever you feel comfortable sharing, with or without your own name attached. During Masses, we pray for the intentions of all, especially those written in our Book of Intentions.

Prayer Chain

The MMOC Prayer Chain are parish members who have promised to pray for any needs.

Send your prayer needs to us at prayer@mmoclacrosse.org or call the parish office. Your request goes directly and only to our parish secretary, who coordinates the Prayer Chain. Any information that you choose to share will be treated as confidential and disclosed only to members of the Prayer Chain.

Those on the Chain receive prayer intentions via a phone call. Each person on the Chain is asked to pray at least one decade of the Rosary for each intention, and to call one or two others on the Chain. Some weeks are slow, others have many requests. This is a ministry that you can do even if you do not use email or are unable to leave your home. If you would like to join this ministry, please call the parish office.

Mass Intentions

For us, the highest, most sanctifying prayer is the Mass. In our tradition, the prayer of all present at Mass is united in the priest who enacts the Holy Eucharist in our midst. We believe that a special grace comes from dedicating the prayer intention of a Mass.

Many Mass Intentions are petitions for the souls of people who have died. Intentions of thanks or celebration are also welcome.

Our experience is that we receive more requests for Mass Intentions than we have Masses. So we have published a Policy on Mass Intentions that we trust will clarify things for everyone.

Updated 13 April 2024