PLEASE PRAY for our military who serve both home and abroad. May God protect them and keep them.
Ssg. Christopher Walker, Army, stationed at McDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL; Spc. Matthew C. Shearin, Army, stationed in Fort Campbell; LTJG Jennifer Lewis, Coast Guard, Baltimore, Maryland; Sgt. Mandie Conway, Army, Chaplain Assistant, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and her brother, Sgt. Mathew Conway, Marine Corps, stationed in Camp LeJuene N.C. and their uncle, MSG Michael Conway, Air National Guard, Afghanistan; Zachary R. Sanders, CPL., Marine Corps, stationed in Afghanistan; FC2 Christopher Rand, Navy, USS Gettsyburg, stationed in Jacksonville, FL; Sgt. Barton Jetter, Army, stationed in Ft. Detrick, MD; Sgt. Brett DeOrio, Marine Corps, stationed in Camp LeJuene, NC; Edward Stewart TACP, Fort Bliss, TX; Marine Lance Corporal Cade McCarty, serving in Afghanistan; Private First Class --Devin Michele Griffin, Army, serving in Afghanistan ; PVT 1st Class Michael Griffin, Fort Leonard Wood; Michael Johnson, Afghanistan; Alexander Ongay, Airman, NG, Lackland, TX; Capt. Alexander G. Kline, Army, Fort Drum, NY; Joshua Knepp, USAF, serving in China; Lt.Col. Tom Harmon, USAFR, Dover Air Force Base, DE; CPT Will Hickerson.
Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen
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How the Parish Began
St. Ann Parish was established on June 11, 1966, by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan to serve "Roman Catholics living north of the Western Maryland railway tracks running adjacent to Prospect and Manila Avenues and north of the Pennsylvania tracks leading to Harrisburg" and in Maugansville. Prior to St. Ann`s establishment as a parish, Catholics of northeast Hagerstown and Washington County were served by St. Mary`s Parish. They gathered for Mass as St. Maria Goretti High School after its construction in 1955 under the leadership of the later Msgr. J. Francis Leary. Then the group worshiped in the "gymnatorium" after its completion in 1965 under the direction of Msgr. Daniel M. McGrath. The late Fr. Paul Dolan, our first pastor (1966-74) and the late Fr. Kloman Riggie, the first associate pastor (1967-73), led the approximately 500 families that composed St. Ann at its beginning. Today the parish has over 1200 families. Members live within and outside its boundaries including southern Pennsylvania and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Impetus for building St. Ann Church came from brothers, John and Thomas Pangborn, of Hagerstown who together donated $373,000 of its total cost of $826.000. The design was largely determinded by Cardinal Shenhan and the architects, Gaudreau and Gaudreau of Baltimore, taking advantage of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
