Saint Mary Catholic Church - Alexandria, Virginia

Saint Mary Catholic Church

September 28 Bulletin Today's Mass Readings

	Feasts, Memorials, and Solemnities
	September 29 -Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Rafael
	September 30 -St. Jerome
	October 1 - St. Therese of the Child Jesus
	October 2 - The Guardian Angels
	October 3 - First Friday
	October 4 - St. Francis of Assisi, First Saturday

40 Days for Life (PDF) September 24 - November 2, 2008. Join in this Pro-life Breakthrough to Help End Abortion and Provide Women with a Loving Choice

Mulch Sale (PDF) Benefiting Bishop Ireton's crew team

Enroll for 2008-2009 CCD

Interested in Joining the Catholic Church? Enroll in St. Mary's RCIA Program.

Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for September

General: That those who are forced to leave home and country because of war or oppressive regimes may be supported by Christians in the defense and protection of their rights.

Mission:That faithful to the sacrament of matrimony every Christian family may cultivate the values of love and communion in order to be a small evangelizing community, sensitive and open to the material and spiritual needs of others.

Traditional Latin Mass at St. Mary's (1962 Missal)

Every first and third Friday of the month, at 7:30 pm, St. Mary’s offers the Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962. This form of Mass is also known as the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite,” the “Mass of Blessed John XXIII,” the “Tridentine Mass” or the “Traditional Latin Mass.” This celebration will normally be a “Low Mass” with a schola or cantor. All are invited to participate in this Mass. For more information on this form of Mass, visit www.sanctamissa.org.

Serve the Poor (PDF) - Volunteer with the St. Vincent de Paul Society

Mary Martha Guild By devoting one hour or more per week, Guild tnd maintain our church in harmony with the liturgical calendar. All parishioners are welcome to become members.

The Mass in Latin (1970 Missal) The regular 10:00 a.m. Mass on the first Sunday of the month is celebrated in Latin. This form of Mass is the regular Mass most Catholics are used to (“Novus Ordo,” or “Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite”), only celebrated in Latin. Click here for the Ordo Missæ cum populo in Latin and English. Audio files of the Latin Mass are now available.

Learn to Pray in Latin "...steps should be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them." (II Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Article 54) Click here for a guide to pronouncing Ecclesiastical Latin, from the Thesaurus Precum Latinarum.

Pater Noster (Our Father) Pater noster, qui es in cælis: sanctificétur nomen tuum; advéniat regnum tuum; fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie; et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris; et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem; sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.

Photos of St. Paul Parish in Pass Christian, Mississippi - Saint Mary's Adopted Parish

Deus Caritas Est The first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI

Father Kleinmann's Letter on Altar Servers at Saint Mary's - March 26, 2006