39th Annual Blessing of the Animals

Sunday, Oct. 9

3:30 p.m.

The Grotto Plaza

All are welcome to join us for the 39th Annual Blessing of the Animals. Bring your pets, properly restrained, to The Grotto Plaza on Oct. 9 for this special blessing.

People and pets of all faiths are welcome.

Eucharistic Miracles Exhibit

Friday, Oct. 7 - Wednesday, Oct. 12

The Grotto Conference Center

The Grotto is hosting an exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles from around the world in The Grotto Conference Center. The exhibit consists of illustrations and descriptions of 48 miracles from around the world since the 3rd century.

There is no charge to view the exhibit. All are welcome.

Exhibit Hours

Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Sunday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Today's Hours of Operation: 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Upper Gardens admission sold until 5:30 p.m.

Daily Mass

 12 noon

Chapel of Mary

Complete Mass Schedule

Daily Recitation of the Rosary

Daily recitation of the Rosary at The Grotto will take place everyday, one half hour before each Mass.

Priest Office Hours

10-11:45 a.m.

Office is located inside the Visitor Center.

“Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Lord Jesus,

You taught me today to remember the main course of your teaching, TO LOVE, God and my neighbor. Have I been carrying this teaching wholeheartedly? Or have I been doing one and abandoning the other? I ask you today, Lord Jesus, to give me the grace that I need to “love God, with all my heart, with all my being, with all my strength, and with all my mind, and to love my neighbors as myself.” The world I live in right now needs many good Samaritans; with your grace, let me be one of them. Allow me to treat my neighbors with mercy. Let me bring your healing power to them that their pain (spiritually, mentally, psychologically, and emotionally) may be healed. Allow me Lord, to be your instrument of healing to many of my neighbors who fall ill to different situations in their lives. This I ask you, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.

Amen.