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by Patrick Oser
Catholic history may have been made on the afternoon of Thursday, December 18th, 2025 Just 7 days before Christmas when a small group of 7 Catholics who were praying the Rosary were kicked off of what was allegedly Church property when a representative from St Susanna’s Parish in Dedham Massachusetts called the Dedham Police Department to remove a peaceful group from praying the Rosary from the Island in the middle of the road that is bordered by Pine Street and Needham Street.
The small group of law abiding Catholics, who also happen to be citizens of the United States of America and who were mostly in their 60’s and 70’s, were holding their Rosary beads along with a small 2’ x 2’picture of the Holy Family and displayed a statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
What were they doing that was so offensive to the pastor of St Susanna’s Parish?
They were praying the Rosary!!
I’m pretty sure that the pastor of St Susanna’s wasn’t aware of what the prayer intentions were.
The group was praying for “Reparation for the Holy Family” for being used as a misguided and confusing political statement.
You see, the Pastor of St Susanna’s has a nativity display in front of their church with a big sign inside the empty manger with a missing Holy Family that says “Ice Was Here”.
The Pastor of the church is Father Stephen S. Josoma who has been in the news in the past for other political and social justice statements and actions like immigration, climate change and gun control laws.
How does the Holy Family have anything to do with illegal immigrants entering our country “illegally” and being removed “legally” by ICE?
Where is the connection between the 2?
“The Holy Family Are Not Illegal Immigrants”
Yet, a group of 7 Catholics praying the Rosary out in front of a Roman Catholic Church in Dedham, not causing any problems or commotion, get removed from an island in the middle of the road that should be public property but is allegedly private property of the same church because the pastor didn’t like prayer happening in front of his church.
I guess we could say: “The Roman Catholic Church Was Here!”
The Blessed Virgin Mary has been trying to get our attention through numerous apparitions throughout the centuries like Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of La Salette, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our lady of the Good Event(aka Our Lady of Good Success) and many, many others about what we need to do to avoid a chastisement and to get into heaven.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth and she is Our Lady and our Spiritual Mother and we need to listen to her and learn what her messages are and what she wants us to know and DO.
We need to start listening to “God’s News” and not “man’s news”.
The Most Holy Rosary has 15 Promises attached to it and it is a very powerful prayer that has helped to win and prevent battles and wars, perform miraculous cures and change peoples lives. It also helps us to see more clearly the truth of what is going on in our country and the world. It will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies. It will cause virtue of good works to flourish, lift the hearts of men to the desires of eternal things and obtain for those who faithfully recite and promote the Holy Rosary to have for their intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of their death.
