Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church

Dear Folks,

Great news, Wow news, Older news, Hints of news, and thankful news!

Great news: pews were installed in our adoration chapel this week! Take a peek! We are awaiting the arrival of the reredos and a few more sacred furnishings to be able to get her operational!!!

Wow news: this week I sent to the Bishop, and his staff, the contract for the stained glass windows in the adoration chapel! What is wow about that?

The response to the memorials for stained glasswas soooo strong… that ve more windows wereadded in November, and all of the windows are 98% memorialized!!! There are only a few ’shares’ of the final window unclaimed for memorials. Please call the office if you are interested!

Older news: also sent to the Bishop, and his staff, information on the rectory renovation. This is the last major outstanding project from the original scope of our capital campaign, and I want to lay the plans before him with the contract bid and see if we can move forward with this project.

Hints of news: our fundraising and construction have been so successful, that I have discussed an additional scope with the parish council and nance council. So far, they like the idea, and I will also be presenting this idea to the Bishop for consideration! I believe that you will be very happy with the idea to improve our property here at the church, which we will announce when we are able.

Thankful news: anks to Fr. Jack Riley who packed the church for three nights and heard many, many hours of confessions! Keep him in your prayers. I am very grateful for the generosity, enthusiasm, fidelity, and scholarship that Fr. Riley shared with us this week.

Please join me in thanking the Lord for the graces received through the ministry of Fr. Riley.

Great things happening at St. Mary’s!

pax,

Fr. John Mosimann

Dear Folks,

Lent.  Let’s Go!!!!

We are kicking this Lent off with a retreat led by Father Jack Riley.  He is a priest of our diocese, and director of the diocesan retreat house in Whitepost, VA!  He was here 2 years ago, and many folks found his talks and abundant hours of extra confessions to be of great spiritual benefit.

The retreat conferences will be Mon/Tues/Wed @7pm — but he also has the 9 am Masses Monday & Tuesday.  His generous offering of Masses, Confessions, and retreat conferences is too detailed for me to list here, but check it out here in the bulletin.

Also, Adoration: 40 extra hours of adoration this week!  Beginning Monday morning, running into our regular adoration and going non-stop all the way to Friday morning!  Sign-up using the link found on this page – THANK YOU!

I hope you enjoy this opportunity to kickstart your Lent!

pax,
fr mosimann

Ash Wednesday is February 18.

Ash Wednesday is a obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence.

For members of the Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.

St Mary will distribute ashes at the following Masses on Wednesday February 18:

6:30am at St Mary

9am at St Mary

12pm at St Mary

4pm Latin Novus Ordo Mass at St Mary

4:30pm at Holy Cross Academy (250 Stafford Lakes Pkwy Fredericksburg VA 22406)

6pm at St Mary

6:30pm at Holy Cross Academy (250 Stafford Lakes Pkwy Fredericksburg VA 22406)

8pm Bilingual at St Mary

EVENING CONFESSIONS ARE CANCELED