The Passionists of Holy Cross Province

The Love that Compels

Mater Dolorosa’s 11th Annual Golf Classic

The Golf BallMonday, May 22, 2017
Glendora Country Club

Please scroll down to register online, to become a sponsor or to make an underwriting donation.   

Play golf and support a very important project – Mater Dolorosa’s “Save our Trees” Project!

A sunny day  *  Golf  *  Friends  *  Lunch  *  Refreshments on the Course  *  Fun  *  Dinner and Hosted Social  *  Great prizes

Join our golf chair, Pat Wickhem, for a fun day at Glendora Country Club.  Last year was a full course so register early!

Register your friends and family in a foursome and invite your spouse or significant other to join us for the social and dinner afterwards at Mater Dolorosa.

Your participation will help Mater Dolorosa save the beautiful trees on the property.  The retreat center has struggled to maintain all of our landscape during the recent years of drought.  Our trees have been hit especially hard.  We have redirected maintenance resources to provide special attention to the trees to treat the infestations and have altered allocations of water to support the trees.

Our Building and Grounds Committee is actively working on developing a system of drip irrigation using gravitational pull to deliver water to specific trees.  Progress on this project depends on securing a source for funding.  The proceeds from our 11th Annual Golf Classic will support this dire need.

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Ash Wednesday

On March 2, the Church celebrates Ash Wednesday. 

Most of us learned early in our Catholic lives that Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, and that is a time of special sacrifice in preparation for the Easter celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection.

Dear brothers and sisters, every moment of our lives is a time for believing, hoping and loving…. These words of Pope Francis, taken from his Lenten Message of last year, 2021, and echoing the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, can still inspire our answer to the question: “What am I giving up for Lent?” 

We can draw our Lenten sacrifices out of our daily life: 

Share our faith in God’s presence by sharing in prayer with our family or with those in our parish community.
Share our hope in God’s promises by encouraging positive and respectful dialogue in our family circle and among our friends. 
Share the charity God has bestowed on us in the Passion of Jesus, with those whose sufferings are ignored or aggravated.

Let us pray for one another as we enter the season of Lent. Our Passionist “motto” can be our daily prayer during Lent, “May the Passion of Jesus Christ be always in our hearts.”