Parish Office Closed Wednesday For Virginia March For Life
The Parish Office will be closed on Wednesday, April 3, until 4pm (normal evening hours of 4-9pm will still be held) so the parish staff can attend the Virginia March for Life in Richmond.
From Our Pastor
Dear Folks,
Let me share with you a story that came to me recently. A priest had a family come to him because their son was experiencing some troubled times. The young six year old had never been baptized, and the family did not attend church, yet they turned to the priest in this difficulty. On entering the Church, the boy was transfixed and walked up to the front where he knelt down and stared ahead. When they asked him what he was looking at, he said, “He is in there…. He is in the box.” “Who?” “The good guy. He comes to me when I am in trouble.” Priest, family, and boy were all amazed as he stared at the tabernacle.
That story gave me a little chill. How much God loves each of us that he does not sit by and wait, but searches us out to draw us to the heart of His love, the fountain of His mercy. “May Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even until the end of time.” I love that prayer.
And I think that we way underestimate the power of prayer. I believe that if we could see the effects of our prayers rippling through the centuries as love builds up love, then we would do nothing else but pray. Ok, that may be hyperbole, but I am confident that in eternity we will not regret a single moment we have spent in prayer, and we will wish we had prayed more!
pax et bonum,
Fr. Mosimann
BLA Payments
Thank you for supporting the 2019 Bishop’s Lenten Appeal (BLA). Please be aware that BLA pledge payments should NOT be made through our parish’s Faith Direct Electronic Giving Program. Gifts given in this way will be delayed in being sent to the Diocese for processing & posting to your record. You may set up a recurring monthly payment for a BLA pledge at arlingtondiocese.org. Thank you!
Holy Week 2019 Schedule
Monday of Holy Week (April 15): 6:30am, 9am, 12pm Mass/ 6:30pm Confessions
Tuesday of Holy Week (April 16): 6:30am and 9am Mass/ 6:30pm Confessions
Wednesday of Holy Week (April 17): 6:30am, 9am, 12pm Mass/ 6:30pm Confessions
Holy Thursday (April 18): 8am Morning Prayer/ 7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper/ 9pm Adoration in the PLC/ 11:45 Night Prayer
Good Friday (April 19): 8am Morning Prayer/ 12pm Tre Ore, the Seven Last Words of Jesus/ 3pm The Passion and Veneration of the Holy Cross/ 7pm Stations of the Cross/ 7:30pm El Via Crucis
Holy Saturday (April 20): 8am Morning Prayer/11am Blessing of Easter Food/ 8:30pm The Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday (April 21): ALL MASSES AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER 8am, 10:15am, 12:30pm