Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church

Dear Folks,

Here comes the summer! Our youth have been at Work Camp this week and will be returning the day these bulletins appear in the church! Thank you for your very generous support of the youth ‘big-board’ fundraiser! It is a great help in making possible our record setting group: 45 youth and 25 adult leaders/ contractors! It takes an amazing team led by our fabulous youth minister, Tatiana Beltran! God Bless you!

This Work Camp Team are the first parishioners to get to meet Fr. Lee, as you will see in the picture below!

Also check out the piece on Bill O’Connor! He teaches art at JP2, his children serve Mass, and he is painting the Divine Mercy Image for the adoration chapel! I was a little nervous in commissioning a piece from a parish artist (sorry Bill!), but this is because the relationship means it is harder to pick the best option for the chapel! But, Bill is doing an amazing job, and I am so happy to have a Fredericksburg touch to the artwork!

Thank you for your patience, in that it is taking much longer to get the Adoration Chapel open than hoped! I am trying to do the best job possible, even when that has meant waiting for solutions on artwork and design that have been through multiple iterations. there is a (admittedly nerdy saying) about video games, “A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever.” Hence the delays in really trying to get everything right for our chapel, that I hope will anchor our spiritual lives for generations!

FYI: 4th of July is this Saturday, and because I am loathe to cancel sacraments, yes: we will still have the normally scheduled Saturday confessions and Masses. I know crowds will be smaller, but Jesus always shows up!

pax,

Father John Mosimann

Due to the arrival of our fifth priest, Father Stan Lee, we will resume the noon Mass on Tuesdays and Thursdays immediately, starting Thursday June 25.

In addition, starting next Monday there will be a 4pm Mass at Holy Cross Academy during the summer.

Once again, Father will never ask you for gift cards via email.  Always check the email address and not the name that it says the email is from.  Be wary of scams.

Dear Folks,

Fr. Stan Lee arrives this ursday! One of the priests here told him on the phone this week, “never has there been such excitement and anticipation for the arrival of a new priest!” Maybe a little hyperbole, but maybe not!

It was a long year for the priests of St. Mary’s, and we had to trim the Tuesday / Thursday Noon Masses from the schedule, because we just couldn’t cover them. Yes, we kept them going as long as we could, in hopes that another priest might come….well, that day is now here!

So I am adding back to the schedule: Tuesday & ursday Noon masses — beginning Thursday June 25th, the day Fr. Lee arrives and it will be his first scheduled Mass in the parish!

Monday 4pm Summer Mass at Holy Cross Academy— beginning Monday June 29th. If it is well attended, I will consider making this a more permanent addition.

Turkey / Greece?? It was mentioned in here once, but if you are interested in a pilgrimage trip to Turkey / Greece, I had a couple of cancellations this week, and so there is room for another couple or two. Dates: Friday October 23rd to Friday November 6th. Cost $5500 per person/double occupancy. It will be a small trip, with about 20 folks, and an adventure! If you would like to see the itinerary, email me directly: frmosimann@stmaryfred.org

pax,

Father John Mosimann