Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel

Contact Us

719-633-8711

Location

218 Ruxton Ave., Manitou Springs, CO 80829

Parking pass is needed to park on Sundays. Available inside the church.

Mass Time

Sundays: 5 pm

Welcome to OLPH

Welcome to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel in Manitou Springs, one of two mission churches that are part of Sacred Heart Parish in Old Colorado City. OLPH is the oldest Catholic Church in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, although ironically, Sacred Heart Church started out as a mission church of OLPH!

OLPH celebrates Mass on Sundays at 5 pm in our quaint chapel which is now well over a hundred years old. We have long-time parishioners from the nearby area and from as far away as Lake George, but we also enjoy having visitors, especially those who vacation seasonally in Manitou Springs.

We have a handicap-accessible ramp and deck that connects the church to our newly renovated Holy Cross Hall, the old rectory that now serves as our community gathering space. Our grotto, built in 1905, has also been recently refurbished.

History of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Our Lady of Perpetual Help was founded in Colorado City in 1860 to minister to the first settlers in the area. On July 30, 1882, Bishop Joseph Machebeuf dedicated a Catholic Church in Manitou Springs. The new church, built by the Gillis brothers at 218 Ruxton Ave., was dedicated on August 1, 1889, with Fr. Frederick Bender as pastor. A small rectory was built that same year.

Four years later, Fr. J.B. Francolon became the pastor and built Miramont Castle. On August 3, 1903, the original church was destroyed by fire. A new structure was built and dedicated by the following October. Two years later, Fr. Michael P. Callanan added the Lourdes Grotto on the property.

In 1926, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate took charge of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, serving it as a mission from the expanded and now renamed Sacred Heart Parish in Old Colorado City. The Congregation of Holy Cross assumed pastoral leadership in 1984.

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