From There to Here:
First, thanks be to God for the many blessings He has showered upon the Marian Committee! In the last two years we’ve grown from six members to twenty-three members! The 72nd Annual Living Rosary was up close to forty percent by almost any metric over the previous year. Archbishop Fabre has been Celebrant for that event for the last two years and has signed on already for next year! The Archdiocesan First Saturday Devotion was reinstated on December 7th, 2019 and has continued uninterrupted for these four years even through the covid pandemic. Archbishop Shelton in 2023 gave us a most wonderful Chaplain, Very Rev. Fr. Martin A. Linebach, KHS.
Going Forward
We have no interest in playing defense. It’s ‘all systems go!’ toward increasing devotion to our beloved Lady, the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary whose blood coursed through our Savior’s own Most Sacred Heart. We have the same purpose as the Church, which is ‘the salvation of souls’.
Our plan is to put ever-increasing energy into The Living Rosary and The First Saturday Devotion, but also, to initiate new events and Marian prayer opportunities. To do that we need your support: in prayers, and time, and resources as you have them. We’d like to improve in our technical capabilities in social media, promotion, photography and videography. We’d like to better reach out to all the various ethnic and racial groups across the Archdiocese. We’d like to help make sure that all young Catholics know and love Our Lady and her Holy Rosary. Please let me know if you can help in any of these ways or would just like to generally volunteer as needed.
Financial Contributions:
If you’d like to make a financial contribution, please make your check payable to “Marian Committee” and mail it to one of two places:
- A. If you want your check to be used as a general donation, please send to:
Pastoral Center
3940 Poplar Level Rd.
Louisville, KY 40213
They will assign your funds to the account of the Marian Committee.
- B. If you want your check to be used for a for a particular purpose, such as The Living Rosary, the First Saturday Devotion, etc., then please mail it along with your request to:
Marian Committee
c/o Deacon Joe Calvert, Director
307 Oakwood Circle
Vine Grove, KY 40175
Particular Needs:
Living Rosary (general) – (approx. $7,500.00)
Living Rosary Facility expenses (approx. $2,500.00)
Living Rosary special clothing for participants
Living Rosary decorations for event space
Living Rosary clergy reach-out
Living Rosary flowers
Living Rosary advertising in The Record, Courier-Journal, WHAS radio, etc.
Living Rosary Billboard: Perhaps you saw our beautiful big billboard up on I-65. We need approximately $3,000 to help with this. Here’s what it looked like if you missed it:
First Saturday Devotion (general)
FSD advertising (approximately $4,000.00 per year)
Start-up Funds for Other Projects:
Bring in top national and international Marian speakers.
Reach-out events for local ethnic minority groups.
Marian pilgrimages
Marian educational events
Your contributions are tax deductible, and you will receive receipts from the Archdiocese of Louisville as the Marian Committee is an official part of the Archdiocese.
From all of us at the Marian Committee of the Archdiocese of Louisville, thank you for your support, and may you have ever-increasing blessings from the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of His Blessed Mother, Mary! Amen. Deacon Joe Calvert, Director.