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PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
A worshiping community that lives and proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
St. Ann Parish is a community of
love, faith, and hope that welcomes all.
We do this as Disciples of Christ through
charity, justice, and fellowship
in service to God through others.
MASS TIMES
Daily mass is celebrated at 8 AM
Monday through Friday.
Saturday ~ Confessions @ 4 pm
Mass @ 5:15pm
Sunday ~ Mass @ 9 am & 11 am
Holy Days ~ Masses as announced
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CATHOLICISM? Maybe RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (and teens) is for you. Join us to learn more about the Catholic faith. All are welcome! For more info, contact the parish office 301/733-0410.
OFFICE HOURS
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
PASTOR`S CORNER
Dear Friends,
I consider myself grateful for many reasons, but in particular because my family still remains a whole unit. My parents are still both alive, siblings are well, getting married and having children of their own. Yes, it is still whole, but by no means perfect; but I have learned that the "less than perfect" family also has helped me to grow as a person and into the man I am today; it has had to stretch my own heart, such as when my sister came home pregnant and now for 17 years has had to raise a child as a single mother. We probably have all had that experience of saying, "that stuff only happens to other people.", and then it happens to you and gradually God starts the expansion of the heart into something bigger. For 17 years now, regardless if the situation is "less than perfect", we have been blessed to have my niece who is about to enter into her final year of high school. Somehow, God can even make a lesson out of the less than perfect situations. Then there are my brothers, of course, we were all raised in the same house don`t forget, who are less than thrilled with church and religion. Yet, they know where to turn when there is a need or a problem or someone needs a prayer for one reason or another. I do know they try, and sometimes that`s all we can ask. My parents were never big into forcing us to do things; we had to make choices since there are six of us and we couldn`t be in six different locations at the same time and nor could they, but some things were constant in those years. We had meals together on a regular basis; it was supper and not dinner for us, and we went to church together...that one we did not have a choice on until we were much older. Sometimes we went to two churches since my father is not a Catholic so we would go there and have to sit and listen to a preacher that made no sense and was long winded, but we did it because that was important to our father. Just as he would come to the Catholic church at times because that was important to my mother. Yeah, sometimes I am hard on them and I drive them crazy because I like to "stir the pot" when I am with them, but deep down, they are the nuclear family that have helped to make me who I am today, and on a larger scale, that is who you have all been to me because I do truly believe that it is a "faith family", with all its quirks, struggles, characters, but when push comes to shove, we rise above all of that and realize we are something bigger than that and our hearts expand a little as well. I am not a mother and would never try to figure out the challenges of that vocation, but I am a father to this family; not perfect, but also not absent like so many have to live and struggle. As like motherhood, being a father is no easy task, and at times, downright painful, but I have witnessed how my own parents have pulled through so many of the situations we put them through and came out better on the other end. No, none of it is perfect, and never will be as long as all of us are involved, but it doesn`t take away the fact that we are family and we strive not always to be perfect, but to be whole. Heck, if anything, it only makes us more resilient; as it has for my nuclear family as it does for my faith family.
Happy Mother`s Day to all...prayers for mothers and family!
Peace,
Father Marty
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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; 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, MO; Michael Johnson, Afghanistan; Alexander Ongay, Airman, NG, Lackland, TX; Capt. Alexander G. Kline, Army, Fort Leonard Wood, MO; 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.
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Anointing of the Sick and Dying: If you are going to the hospital, it`s fitting to be anointed before you go. Please call the parish office to make an appointment. In case of an emergency, call the parish office or rectory anytime. The only way we know you are in the hospital is if you or a member of your family informs us. Due to privacy laws, hospitals cannot inform us automatically of your hospitalization. Don`t wait till the last moment to have your loved one anointed when in danger of death.
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