Mark Your Calendars for These Upcoming Parish Events   

Fridays During Lent.  Soup Suppers (6-7:30pm) and Stations of the Cross (7:30pm in English and 8:30pm in Spanish.  Our Friday Soup Suppers are held in the Parish Life Center.  Come share a Lenten penitential meal of soup and bread with your parish family, and offer what you would have spent on dinner that night with those in need.  All free-will offerings received are given to charity.  After supper, the parish offers the Stations of the Cross at 7:30pm (in English) and at 8:30pm (in Spanish) in the church.

 Saturday, March 3, Monthly Parish Family Dinner, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.  The dinner will be held in the Parish Life Center from 6-8:30pm.  Baked ham with raisin sauce, sweet potato casserole, green beans, baked pineapple casserole and ice cream.  The profit will be donated to Hope House.  Adults, $7; Seniors (60+) and Teens, $6; Children (7-12), $5; under 7, free.

Manna Food Project, March 10 & 11.  The parish will collect non-perishable food items and monetary donations for the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank after all Masses on March 10 & 11.

Tuesday, March 13, Parent Gathering Speaker Series.  6:30-8pm.  "Parenting 101: Positive Discipline" presented by Mrs. Judy Mazarella.  Held in the Parish Life Center. 

Taize Ecumenical Service

Join us for our monthly ecumenical prayer service in the tradition of the Taize community in France.  Monday, March 12 at 8:15pm in the church.  All area Christians invited.

 

 

Mass of Dedication

 

Our Mass of Dedication took place on November 22, 2010. We had the great blessing of having our Bishop, Paul Loverde, join us in dedicating our new altar and rededicating our church, newly renovated. We inaugurated a new space, a new baptismal font, and a beautiful new pipe organ which has only begun to deepen the authenticity of our parish spiritual life.  All of this work has been accomplished by the good people of Saint Mary who sought to build a fitting house for God on earth, a house fit for the prayers of the saints, a house of Communion. It is our best work in praise of God.

 

To read more  about the beautiful Mass of Dedication and the symbolism of the many new sculptures and painting as well as background on the marvelous new pipe organ, please see the

Mass of Dedication Program.  You can see many beautiful pictures by visiting our photo gallery