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Mary Queen of Heaven Mission Church |
Address:
602 7th Street, Fowler, CO
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 384, Fowler, CO
81039-0384 |
| Phone: 719 263-4455 * Fax:
719 254-3921 * Email:
stpetercatholic@yahoo.com |
| Administrator: Rev. Jose Mario Murillo |
| Summer Mass Schedule:
Sunday: 11:30 a.m. * Holidays: Varies |
| Winter Mass Schedule:
Same as summer schedule. |
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STAFF |
| Rev. Jose Mario Murillo, Administrator |
| Barb Fruhwirth, CRE |
| Betty Bigler
and Catriona Mac Kirnan, Liturgy & Music |
| Jeannette Cannon, Church Treasurer |
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HISTORY |
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Prior
to 1953, most Catholics in Fowler attended mass at St. Peter’s in Rocky Ford.
Parents taught their children religious education at home, then took them to
Rocky Ford to receive the sacraments. In 1953, Fr. Edward Pettit, the founding
pastor of Mary, Queen of Heaven, celebrated the first area mass in a private
home. Fr. Pettit continued to occasionally celebrate mass at various homes in
the community, and at the IOOF Hall above the Post Office. Religious education
classes for teenagers and young adults were also held in various Catholic homes.
Then in December 1957, the Queen of Heaven Chapel was purchased from the
Lutheran congregation for $7,000. The Catholic Extension Society donated $4,000
toward the purchase of the building, with the remaining amount pledged by
parishioners. The building was paid for in two years. Today, the small, thriving
parish community of approximately sixty families is a mission of St. Peter in
Ordway, which is located twenty miles northwest of Fowler. |
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