Thank you to all who gavegifts, made monetary donations andvolunteered their time as we provided Christmas gifts to 52 families and individuals in need, 80 guests of our weekly Homeless Ministry program, four homes of the L’Arche Community of Greater Washington, and 30 children from the DC General Shelter.
We bid a fond farewell to our two regular 10am Latin Mass celebrants, Msgr. Thomas P. Olszyk, who retired last month, and Fr. Shane Kirby, who will leave us at the end of July. Beginning in August, we will welcome four new celebrants of our 10am Sunday Latin Mass: Dominican Fathers Leo Checkai (St. Dominic’s) and Albert Trudel (Dominican House of Studies), and Benedictine Fathers Gabriel Myers and Christopher Wyvil (both at St. Anselm’s Abbey).
The Archdiocese of Washington issued a statement on the June 30, 2014 ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case (Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. et al. v. Burwell.). Read the ADW statement.
Pope Francis at his April 9, 2014 General Audience began a series of catecheses on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Rely on it for inspiration as we begin the Pentecost Novena today, May 30. It focuses on the first gift - WISDOM - which is the gift that we build up to praying for, on the 8th day of the Novena. View his address.
As the Church prepares to celebrate the canonizations of two popes on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2014, we recall Pope John Paul II's visit and celebration of Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 6, 1979, when he preached to 1,500 diocesan priests. Read the Washington Post article covering this historic event, scanned from the Cathedral archives.
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'This Week': The Pope's Popularity
ABC News' David Wright and the roundtable on Pope Francis' first year at the Vatican, include images from the Cathedral and of Msgr. Jameson. Click the link below to view the video.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-popes-popularity-22838618
Friends and relatives of those with alcohol or drug addictions are invited to the Circle of Hope Al-Anon meetings on Thursdays at 1:15pm in the West Conference Room (enter via the alley).
This Zenit article caught Msgr.'s eye: Francis' Dialogue with Engaged Couples. A memorable quote: "It’s an art to live together, a patient, beautiful and fascinating journey. It doesn’t end when you have won each other. Instead, it’s really then that it begins! This daily journey has rules that that can be summarized in the three phrases ... :permission – that is, “may I,” ... thank you and excuse me." (Pope Francis)
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August is the month for parishes to share statistics with the Archdiocese regarding their finances and sacramental life. Msgr. Jameson offers some of these figures (right). The number of marriages this past year is of particular interest—99 weddings took place here, but that figure does not include the many couples who our clergy prepared for marriage but were wed elsewhere. Msgr.
Longtime parishioner Olivia Crosby received the Manifesting the Kingdom award from Cardinal Donald Wuerl earlier this month during a special ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
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