Marriage & Family Life

“The family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of husband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. Its first task is to live with fidelity the reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic community of persons. …without love the family is not a community of persons and, in the same way, without love the family cannot live, grow and perfect itself as a community of persons.”

Pope John Paul II (1981)
Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, #18

Following is a list of Catholic websites that promote and support marriage and family life:

Apostolic Exhortation on the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_19811122_familiaris-consortio.html

Archdiocese of Washington

https://adw.org/living-the-faith/marriage-family/visible-sign/

https://adw.org/living-the-faith/marriage-family/family/

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

https://www.usccb.org/committees/laity-marriage-family-life-youth

Vatican Dicastery for Laity Family and Life

www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/family-index.html

http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/il-dicastero.html

National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers (NACFLM)

www.nacflm.org/ 

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Regular Mass Times

Confessions during Advent
Saturdays 8:15 – 9:15 AM,
and 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 PM

 

Holy Mass
Monday – Thursday 6:30 AM and 5:00 PM
Friday 6:30 AM & 8:30 AM
Saturday 7:30 AM & 5:00 PM
Sunday 7:30, 9:00, & 11:00 AM

 

Immaculate Conception of the Bl. Virgin Mary (Holy Day of Obligation; Thursday 5pm applies)
Friday, December 8
Masses 6:30 & 8:30 AM, 7:30 PM

 

Sunday, December 17
Carols in the Church, 6:00 PM

 

Friday, December 22
Mass 6:30 AM only, No adoration

 

Sunday, December 24 IV Advent
Masses 7:30, 9:00, and 11:00 AM

 


Christmas Masses

Christmas Eve
Sunday 24 December

4:45 PM Carols

5:00 PM Vigil Mass for Children

9:00 PM Solemn Vigil Mass
with Choir: Messe de Minuit pour Noël (1690) by M-A Charpentier

12:00 AM Solemn Candlelight Mass at Midnight with Schola

 

 

Christmas Day
Monday 25 December 

8:30 AM Dawn Mass of Christmas with Organ and Cantor

11:00 AM Solemn Mass of Christmas Day with Youth Choir

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