We hope you and your families are well and safe as we continue through this prayerful time in Lent. The priests and deacons of St. Mary's are praying for your continued health and safety at this time.
Deacon James gives us another thoughtful message. This one is on Spiritual Communion. HERE.
Here's a link to the parish bulletin for March 29. It includes a reflection from Father Fields and also an introduction from our new seminarian, Vincent Vu. Press the Bulletin button from the website. HERE.
TONIGHT!-Digital Parish Stations of the Cross, Friday, March 27, at 7 pm. Digital Stations of the Cross will also be held Friday, April 3 at 7 pm and Good Friday, April 10 at Noon. (new time scheduled on Good Friday!) All are invited to join St. Mary's for the remaining three Fridays of Lent for a digital gathering to pray the Stations of the Cross! We will pray and reflect on the Stations of the Cross through an online video call at this link each Friday, and we hope you can join us for this Lenten community prayer. The link to access is HERE. If you are new to ZOOM, please sign on 15 minutes ahead to download and follow the prompts to sign in.
The Sacrament of Confession will be offered in the Main Church on Saturday, March 28 from 4-5 pm and Wednesday, April 1 from 6:30- 8 pm.
Parish Catechesis: "The Messy Work of a Disciple", Sunday, March 29, 10:30 am: All families and parishioners are invited to join us by conference call for a discussion led by RCIA coordinator and St. Mary's School religion teacher, Miss Olivia Crosby! We hope many of you can join us online to continue to grow in faith together. Please join us this Sunday HERE as we discuss this Sunday's Gospel of Lazarus' resurrection and concrete ways to live and teach discipleship. Please e-mail [email protected] with any questions or difficulties. Give yourself about 15 minutes ahead to connect to the site. Follow the prompts to save the file, download, etc. to connect for the class.
Our neighboring parish, St. Martin of Tours in Gaithersburg, MD., is critically low on donations for their food pantry at this time. Their food pantry serves many of the needy in our vicinity. Please see the link to the Catholic Standard article for more information about the specific food donations requested and times to deliver to the St. Martin's pantry. HERE.
As you speak to your St. Mary's friends and neighbors, if they haven't received these communications, please refer them to St. Mary's website and look under News. Please inform them they can contact the rectory office by email [email protected] or phone (301-424-5550) during business hours to be added to the parish email list.