Saint Mary Catholic Church - Alexandria, Virginia

Saint Mary Catholic Church

August 24 Bulletin Today's Mass Readings

CYO Summer Calendar (PDF)

	Feasts, Memorials, and Solemnities
	August 25 - St. Louis of France; St. Joseph Casalanz
	August 27 - St. Monica
	August 28 - St. Augustine
	August 29 - The Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist
	August 30 - Blessed Virgin Mary

Enroll for 2008-2009 CCD

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

Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for August

General: That the human family may learn to respect God’s plan for the world and become ever more aware that Creation is God’s great gift.

Mission: That the answer of the entire people of God to the common calling to holiness and mission may be promoted and fostered by means of careful discernment of charisms and constant commitment to spiritual and cultural formation

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