Our Lady and Saint John Catholic Church

Our Lady and Saint John Catholic Church A Roman Catholic community of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in Louisville, KY WELCOME IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! at St.

OUR LADY AND SAINT JOHN is a community within the Catholic Church with an Anglican heritage. Coming from various Christian traditions and other backgrounds, we rejoice in the Church's initiative to bring the richness of the Anglican patrimony into the fullness and communion of the Catholic Church. We are charged with preaching the Gospel, making present God's grace in the sacraments, and serving t

he poor. We hope you will consider joining us for our weekly Sunday Mass at 12 p.m. Francis of Assisi in Louisville. We look forward to welcoming you!

Today’s Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady has a fascinating liturgical history. Check it out on our “Patrimony, Liturgy,...
09/09/2026

Today’s Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady has a fascinating liturgical history. Check it out on our “Patrimony, Liturgy, and the Arts at OLSJ” group page.

Today is the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. Mass at 5:30 pm in the Ordinary Form.Vespers at 5 pm in the Ordinary For...
09/08/2026

Today is the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. Mass at 5:30 pm in the Ordinary Form.

Vespers at 5 pm in the Ordinary Form

O Lord, we beseech thee, bestow on thy servants the gift of heavenly grace: that as our redemption began to dawn in the child-bearing of the Blessed Virgin Mary; so this festival of her Nativity may yield us an increase of peace; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

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Trinity XIV- Sunday, 6 September. A Solemn Te Deum will be sung after Mass in thanksgiving for the Tenth Anniversary of ...
09/06/2026

Trinity XIV- Sunday, 6 September.

A Solemn Te Deum will be sung after Mass in thanksgiving for the Tenth Anniversary of the founding of Our Lady and S. John’s and for the many blessings received. Ad multos annos!

There will be a coffee hour following Mass. Do join us!

THE FEAST OF S. TERESA OF CALCUTTA, V.,(being also a First Saturday)SATURDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 2026CALCVIConfessions: 11.00 ...
09/04/2026

THE FEAST OF S. TERESA OF CALCUTTA, V.,

(being also a First Saturday)

SATURDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 2026

CALCVI

Confessions: 11.00 am; 3.30 pm

Mass: 12.00 pm

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Our Lady and S. John Catholic Church - within the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of S. Peter 1960 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY

Margaret Clitheroe,by Gerard Manley HopkinsGOD’S counsel cólumnar-severeBut chaptered in the chief of blissHad always do...
08/31/2026

Margaret Clitheroe,
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

GOD’S counsel cólumnar-severe
But chaptered in the chief of bliss
Had always doomed her down to this –
Pressed to death. He plants the year;
The weighty weeks without hands grow,
Heaved drum on drum; but hands also
Must deal with Margaret Clitheroe.

The very victim would prepare.
Like water soon to be sucked in
Will crisp itself or settle or spin
So she; one sees that here and there
She mends the ways she means to go.
The last thing Margaret’s fingers sew
Is a shroud for Margaret Clitheroe.

The Christ-ed beauty of her mind
Her mould of features mated well.
She was admired. The spirit of hell
Being to her virtue clinching-blind
No wonder therefore was not slow
To the bargain of its hate to throw
The body of Margaret Clitheroe.

Great Thecla, the plumed passionflower,
Next Mary mother of maid and nun
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
And every saint of bloody hour
And breath immortal thronged that show;
Heaven turned its starlight eyes below
To the murder of Margaret Clitheroe.

She was a woman, upright, outright;
Her will was bent at God. For that
Word went she should be crushed out flat
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Fawning fawning crocodiles
Days and days came round about
With tears to put her candle out;
They wound their winch of wicked smiles
To take her; while their tongues would go
God lighten your dark heart – but no,
Christ lived in Margaret Clitheroe.

She held her hands to, like in prayer;
They had them out and laid them wide
(Just like Jesus crucified);
They brought their hundredweights to bear.
Jews killed Jesus long ago
God’s son; these (they did not know)
God’s daughter Margaret Clitheroe.

When she felt the kill-weights crush
She told His name times-over three;
I suffer this she said for Thee.
After that in perfect hush
For a quarter of an hour or so
She was with the choke of woe. –
It is over, Margaret Clitheroe.

She caught the crying of those Three,
The Immortals of the eternal ring,
The Utterer, Utterèd, Uttering,
And witness in her place would she.
She not considered whether or no
She pleased the Queen and Council. So
To the death with Margaret Clitheroe!

Within her womb the child was quick.
Small matter of that then! Let him smother
And wreck in ruins of his mother.

Yesterday, 30 August, was the Feast of Ss Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, Martyrs. As the feast fell...
08/31/2026

Yesterday, 30 August, was the Feast of Ss Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, Martyrs. As the feast fell on a Sunday this year, we were not able to offer Masses to honour this holy and remarkable ladies.

Of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, three women joined the thirty-seven men in bravely risking their lives for the Catholic faith during the Reformation. Ss Margaret Clitherow and Anne Line harboured priests – the former was pressed to death ( along with her unborn child in her womb ), the latter hanged at Tyburn. S. Margaret Ward attempted to help a priest escape prison and was also hanged at Tyburn. Although these three martyrs were canonized in 1970 among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, they are commemorated on a separate day because of the particular reason for their deaths; namely, their deep respect for the priesthood, and their zealous protection of priests.

08/30/2026

Due to various and sundry technical issues outside of our volunteers' control, we will not be able to stream this morning's liturgy. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church, 1960 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY
40205

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