Express Announcements ~ January 22, 2017

Express Announcements ~ January 22, 2017

* All are invited to attend our annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity prayer service with Bishop Burbidge at Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, Arlington, VA Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm. Please join us!

* Complete some of your holiday shopping by purchasing SCRIP gift cards! Set up an account today and earn rebates for HCA. Email Torie Baldwin at scripcoordinator@ holycrossweb.com for the school enrollment code.

* Subscribe to the Saint Mary website, www.stmaryfred.org and receive important updates via email. The subscription box is on the homepage. Enter your email address, click “subscribe.”

* Saint Mary Calendars are now available in both English and Spanish in the vestibule of the church. Please, one per family.

Express Announcments ~ January 8, 2017

Express Announcments ~ January 8, 2017

*Please join us for our monthly Taizé Prayer Service this next, January 9, at 8:15pm. Now in our 9th year, we have met each month to pray for Christian unity in our community and in the world. All Christians are warmly invited; invite your friends!

* Religious Freedom Day is January 8. Please join the Knights of Columbus, Rappahannock Assembly as we observe the 240th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s drafting of the Act of Religious Freedom for Virginia. Parade begins at the VRE station at 1:30pm followed by a ceremony on Kenmore Avenue at the Religious Freedom Monument.

* Please plan to join us for Mass with Bishop Michael Burbidge on Tuesday evening, January 17. Greet our new Bishop, reception to follow the Mass in the Parish Life Center.

* Complete some of your holiday shopping by purchasing SCRIP gift cards! Set up an account today and earn rebates for HCA. Email Torie Baldwin at scripcoordinator@holycrossweb.com for the school enrollment code.

* Subscribe to the Saint Mary website, stmaryfred.org and receive important updates via email. The subscription box is on the homepage. Enter your email address, click “subscribe.”

* Saint Mary Calendars are now available in both English and Spanish in the vestibule of the church. Please, one per family.

From Our Pastor ~ January 8, 2017

From Our Pastor ~ January 8, 2017

Dear Folks,

A brief word on four forms of prayer:

Adoration: It is the nature of an intelligent being to honor excellence. To be awed by that which is extraordinary. God is supreme excellence, and so far beyond the ordinary that we are utterly false to ourselves if we deny Him praise, adoration, and glory. Think of the Gloria, “we praise you, we bless you, we adore, we glorify you…” What an excellent way to pray. And if you can’t pray this way, then you need to fix your mind on the excellence of God.

Thanksgiving: Everything we have and are is a gift from God, and failure to recognize this would be an extraordinary fraud. Give thanks in all times and for all things.

Repentance: A consideration of our status before the all good and generous God gives rise to this expression of sorrow for sin as we implore God’s mercy and beseech the forgiveness of our sins.

Intercession: Prayer for oneself or others, for their material and spiritual wellbeing. This is the realm where we are asking for favors for ourselves or others. If this is the only form of prayer that we know and exercise, then our prayer is greatly impoverished.

However, when all forms of prayer are present in a soul it unleashes a torrent of grace: the soul in right relation to God is sufficiently  confident of His love to be able to ask for what it wants. And the soul is confident enough to trust that God will answer the prayer in the manner which will most benefit His beloved sons and daughters.

Pray on Brothers and Sisters!

pax,

Signature

 

Fr. Mosimann

Express Announcements ~ January 1, 2017

Express Announcements ~ January 1, 2017

* Please join us for our monthly Taizé Prayer Service this next, January 9, at 8:15pm. Now in our 9th year, we have met each month to pray for Christian unity in our community and in the world. All Christians are warmly invited; invite your friends!

* Religious Freedom Day is January 8. Please join the Knights of Columbus, Rappahannock Assembly as we observe the 240th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s drafting of the Act of Religious Freedom for Virginia. Parade begins at the VRE station at 1:30pm followed by a ceremony on Kenmore Avenue at the Religious Freedom Monument.

* Please plan to join us for Mass with Bishop Michael Burbidge on Tuesday evening, January 17. Greet our new Bishop, reception o follow the Mass in the Parish Life Center.

* Complete some of your holiday shopping by purchasing SCRIP gift cards! Set up an account today and earn rebates for HCA. Email Torie Baldwin at scripcoordinator@holycrossweb.com for the school enrollment code.

* Subscribe to the Saint Mary website, stmaryfred.org and receive important updates via email. The subscription box is on the homepage.
Enter your email address, click “subscribe.”

* Saint Mary Calendars are now available in both English and Spanish in the vestibule of the church. Please, one per family.