On March 23, DC-based early music ensemble Chanrty will perform Motets from Handl's great Opus Musicum at Saint Mary's. The concert begins at 8:00 pm and ends at 9:30 pm. The 374 motets in Handl's great Opus Musicum provide music for the entire liturgical year.
On Saturday, February 2nd, a traditional Latin Solemn High Mass will be offered at 9 a.m. here at Saint Mary's for the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The local men's choir "The Suspicious Cheese Lords" will sing the music, including sacred polyphony, for the feast also known as Candlemas. Our fourth painting in the apse will be installed in time for the Mass. Please come -- and invite family and friends to attend with you for what will be a beautiful morning.
On January 27, our parish community will receive one of the auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Washington, Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville. His Excellency will lead us in a Holy Hour and Benediction at 10:00 am. Note: The 10:30 am English Mass is canceled that day, but those who frequent that Mass can still satisfy their Sunday obligation at the 1:00 pm or 7:30 pm Mass. See you!
Join us on Friday, January 18th 2019!! Our annual Nellie Gray Mass, honoring our late parishioner who founded the March for Life,will be at 4:30pm. It will be a solemn high traditional Latin Mass commemorating Saint Prisca. Saint Mary will be having Masses as early as 8:00am at every hour that day. Groups from the East Coast will be celebrating Mass before attending the March for Life! Thousands upon thousands of American travel to the Nation's Capital every year around the tragic anniversary of Roe v. Wade to remember the more than 60 million Americans who have died because of abortion.
A Low Mass (Extraordinary Form) will be offered in honor of Our Lady's First Saturday on January 5 at 9:00 am. The Mass will be followed by a Rosary and a Holy Hour (1 full hour) sponsored by the Downtown DC Serra Club to pray for an increase in priestly and religious vocations.
The Catholic Beer Club at St. Mary's is hosting a fellowship on December 7, the Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be said in the church at 5:30 pm, followed by the gathering at Capitol City Brewing Co. in downtown Washington, DC.
St. Mary Mother of God is partnering with Patricia Handy Place, an emergency housing facility in the neighborhood, to give warm blankets to women living in the shelter, as well as winter clothing and needed toiletries. Please click on the link above for details on how to donate.
Baby Timmy has high-risk neuroblastoma and needs both financial and spiritual support. His mom, Mary Anne, is a former parishioner at St. Mary’s. Please consider donating to his GoFundMe page (click the link above), spread the word and offer prayers for his speedy healing.
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: the moment when Mary was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven. It’s a day marked by one of God’s most wonderful gifts, hope. In view of what her son Jesus would do, Mary was born without the stain of original sin, a perfect vessel to bring the Christ into the world. Because she was without sin, at the moment of her death, she did not have to wait for her body and soul to rise together to heaven.
This past Laetare Sunday a photo of the parish was taken as a retirement gift for Fr. Alfred Harris, Pastor of Saint Mary Mother of God in Washington DC. Many people have asked for the photo. Member of the parish can download it here.
