Religious Education Registration for 2018-2019 classes starts today! Register at the office between 9am and 4pm Monday thru Friday this summer! If you’re registering for a sacramental year (2nd and 8th grade) please bring a copy of your baptismal certificate with you!
Due to the weather forecast for rain all this weekend, the Parish Picnic has been rescheduled to 3pm on June 24 at HCA! Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to get everything ready and is now working even harder to move it!
Due to PreSchool Graduation, Confessions will be heard in the PLC this evening starting at 6:30pm.
The Diocese of Arlington announced this morning, along with other priest assignments, that our own Father Stephen Holmes, who has faithfully and lovingly served the parish these past 5 years, has been transferred to the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Winchester, Virginia, where he will serve along with another St Mary alum, Sacred Heart’s pastor, Fr. Bjorn Lundberg. Father Holmes’s new assignment will become effective as of June 28, 2018. Please stay tuned for more information about Fr. Holmes’s going away events as we thank him for his hard work and devotion to the people of St Mary. Please keep Fr. Holmes in your prayers as he embarks on his new assignment!
In his place, the Diocese has announced that effective June 28, Rev. Mr. Michael J. Folmar will be assigned to St Mary as our new parochial vicar. Deacon Folmar is currently a transitional deacon, and will be ordained to the priesthood, along with two other transitional deacons, on June 10, 2018 at 11am at the Cathedral of St Thomas More in Arlington, Virginia, by Bishop Burbidge. Please keep Deacon Folmar in your prayers as he prepares for his ordination and his first assignment as a priest here at St Mary!
For more information on the clergy assignments, please click here.
For more information on the upcoming ordinations in our diocese, including Deacon Folmar, please click here.