Welcome to DOLS!
www.OLS-SA.org/DOLS  

WELCOME
to any new Kindergarten and new DOLS
who have joined us we wish you wonderful times,
new friendships, and precious moments with DOLS.

  May is For Mary       Upcoming Events        Saint of the Month          

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  1. Make the Sign of the Cross and say the "Apostles' Creed."
  2. Say the "Our Father."
  3. Say three "Hail Marys."
  4. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
  5. Announce the First Mystery; then say the "Our Father."
  6. Say ten "Hail Marys," while meditating on the Mystery.
  7. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
  8. Announce the Second Mystery; then say the "Our Father." Repeat 6 and 7 and continue with Third, Fourth and Fifth Mysteries in the same manner.

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Our Lady of Sorrows 
 Feast Day: September 15
The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary are:
1. The Prophecy of Simeon
2. The Flight into Egypt
3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple
4. Mary Meets Jesus on the Way to Calvary
5. Jesus Dies on the Cross
6. Mary Receives the Body of Jesus in Her Arms
7. The Body of Jesus is Placed in the Tomb
For a novena beginning Sept 7, through the intersession of Our Lady of Sorrows, check out www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/sorrow.htm

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The DOLS Organization:

The name DOLS stands for Daughters of Our Lady of Sorrows. DOLS was founded on
January 29, 1963. Through DOLS young girls have the opportunity to develop new friendships and have fun while providing service to the parish and community. DOLS aims to provide a continuing tradition where girls of the parish can enrich their faith in God and the Saints and strive to emulate Our Lady’s ideals of faith, hope and charity.

The DOLS organization consists of girls from the Kindergarten through the Fourth Grade in Our Lady of Sorrows-St. Anthony Parish. There is a yearly registration fee.

DOLS participate in a monthly Mass followed by a social or service related activity. Additional service projects and activities are also planned throughout the year. DOLS will earn medals yearly for their participation in these events. Each grade level is eligible to receive specific pins. These pins are displayed on a light blue baldric that is worn by the girls at appropriate events.

The leadership of DOLS consists of an executive board as well as Guides for each grade level that assist the girls with service projects and help them work toward their medals.

DOLS' PRAYER

May the Lord Jesus Christ be with us, that He may defend us;
within us that He may sustain us;
before us that He may lead us;
behind us that He may protect us; above us that He may bless us;
He who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit
Forever and ever AMEN

Laws of the DOLS
Be Courteous
Be Trustworthy
Be Helpful
Be Healthy
Be Mary-like
 
DOLS MOTTO
Faith, Hope, Charity
 
DOLS Colors
Blue and White

DOLS End of Year Brunch, 2011.

DOLS getting ready to march in the Memorial Day parade, 2010.

 


 
We honor Mary during the month of May at the May Crowning.  But why do we honor her?  She has many titles, including Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Sorrows.  We honor her for all the good she does.  We honor her for her intersession.  We honor her because she is Jesus' mother.  We honor her because she always says yes to God.  We honor Mary as Queen of Heaven.

 
Besides crowning Mary with flowers, take time this month to say the Rosary.  Or at least say the Hail Mary daily.  Listen to your own parents here on Earth.  

 
Dear Mary, we love you with all our hearts.  Bring us closer to Jesus, and teach us how to always say "yes" to God the way you did. Amen.
 
- By Gloria and Diana Schulz

 

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska Feast: October 5

Born in what is now west-central Poland (part of Germany before World War I), Helena (her birth name) was the third of 10 children. She worked as a housekeeper in three cities before joining the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1925. She worked as a cook, gardener and porter in three of their houses.

In addition to carrying out her work faithfully, generously serving the needs of the sisters and the local people, she also had a deep interior life. This included receiving revelations from the Lord Jesus, messages that she recorded in her diary at the request of Christ and of her confessors.

At a time when some Catholics had an image of God as such a strict judge that they might be tempted to despair about the possibility of being forgiven, Jesus chose to emphasize his mercy and forgiveness for sins acknowledged and confessed. “I do not want to punish aching mankind,” he once told St. Maria Faustina, “but I desire to heal it, pressing it to my merciful heart” (Diary 1588). The two rays emanating from Christ's heart, she said, represent the blood and water poured out after Jesus' death (Gospel of John 19:34)

Because Sister Maria Faustina knew that the revelations she had already received did not constitute holiness itself, she wrote in her diary: “Neither graces, nor revelations, nor raptures, nor gifts granted to a soul make it perfect, but rather the intimate union of the soul with God. These gifts are merely ornaments of the soul, but constitute neither its essence nor its perfection. My sanctity and perfection consist in the close union of my will with the will of God” (Diary 1107).

Sister Maria Faustina died of tuberculosis in Krakow, Poland, on October 5, 1938. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1993 and canonized her seven years later.


 

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