Pastor’s Page

Dear Parishioners, Again, cases are up but hospitalizations are down. We can hope to reopen on June 1st. Thursday begins the nine days leading up to Pentecost. This is the nine days between our Lord’s Ascension into Heaven and the sending of the Holy Spirit. As the Acts of... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, We can hope that we will reopen two weeks from today. That is when the stay at home order for Prince George’s County expires. Hospitalizations are continuing to decrease. Reported cases are still rising because of increased testing. But, I believe, that... Read More →

We are starting to plan to reopen for Masses. Even though we are still two weeks away in Prince George’s County (assuming that the stay at home order is not extended again) there is much planning that is needed since we want to reopen safely. Archbishop Gregory has made a... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, We are all disappointed with the decision to keep the lock down in effect in Prince George’s until June 1st. This means that the entire Easter Season will pass without us worshiping together. Our candidates and Elect are still waiting to be initiated into... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, The number of new cases is in the 700s and the hospitalizations have gone down. Governor Hogan will be making an announcement at 5:00 pm this evening on the nex step in reopening. We can hope he will allow Churches to reopen soon. Today is the Feast of Our Lady... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, Total cases in Maryland are down. Governor Hogan may make an announcement this week about moving into phase one of reopening. It looks as if we will still be doing outdoor Adoration this Sunday instead of Mass. We may add some type of May procession and... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, The number of people hospitalized has gone down by nearly 100, while new cases were well under 1000. We can hope this leads to a lifting of the stay at home order soon. Thanks to all the people who came to Adoration yesterday. We can hope and pray that we can... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, The number of cases is again up by over 1000. But, the hosptilizations are down by 25. We still wait for the opening of Churches. Perhaps, this will happen very soon. Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. I hope we can come to together as a parish before the end... Read More →

Dear Parishioners, Wind chill in May, very strange weather. I guess its just one more strange thing to live with. The virus cases were again up over a thousand today, but, again, hospitalizations were down by 9. We are still on the countdown for lifting the stay at home order in... Read More →