Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church

Dear Folks,

So much good news! The final brick order for the memorial wall has been paid and the Holy Cross Academy expansion and improvement is proceeding with great haste! The memorial wall will have bricks recognizing the original founding 1997 donors, 2016 brick sales, Growing our Legacy of Faith 2022 campaign and memorials for both the St. Helena and Divine Mercy chapels. The memorial wall will be located in the new cafeteria and I am very excited with the final design. (Look for the picturebelow on my page)!

Additionally, I have been listening to your feedback and questions about the memorial program. So, this week decided to add a memorial recognition for the Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel! This will be for those who memorialize items specific to the Adoration Chapel! Because this is a recent response to your kindly asking, there is not a final design, but rather a commitment to have memorial recognitions on this campus as well!

New and incoming memorial donations will be included. Staff is updating the text in the bulletin here to reflect this change.

I had intended to keep all memorials together, but with the deadline passing for inclusion @HCA, I listened to a couple of impassioned pleas for “having my family name close to the Lord.” And hence this inclusion for the Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel!

pax,

Father John Mosimann

Dear Folks,

Service Dogs and Health! A couple of weeks I asked you to contact me if you bring a service dog to Mass, because we have a parishioner with serious health issues such that being in the church at the same time as a dog can send her into anaphylactic shock. Yikes! Having now talked with three folks who regularly bring service dogs, I am prepared to ask your cooperation with this ‘policy.’

Let’s keep the 7pm Saturday, 7am Sunday, and 8:30am Sunday Masses dog free. This will allow three options to be able to attend Mass without serious threat to survival. I will work with the ushers, to have a plan should someone show up with a service dog at one of those Masses, to ask their cooperation, and inform the family.

This is much like the care we have for one-another by not bringing peanut butter sandwiches to Mass! There is much that we can do to care and welcome the whole family to the Holy Mass!

pax,

Father John Mosimann

Stations of the Cross will be celebrated every Friday in Lent at 6:30pm in the church in English, and in Spanish at 7:30pm.

Ash Wednesday is on March 5, 2025.

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 March 5:

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

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

8pm Bilingual at St Mary