9:30 am

Confessions from 6:15 -7:15 pm each Wednesday throughout Lent

 April 16

Additional Mass is offered at 7:30 pm each Wednesday throughout Lent

April 16

April 17 Holy Thursday

7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper

April 18 Good Friday

12:00 pm Living Station of the Cross offered by the Students of Holy Redeemer

3:00 pm Scriptural Stations of the Cross

7:30 pm Liturgy of the Cross

Confessions beginning at 10:00 am

8:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass

7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 am

Watch: Holy Week in Three Minutes
 
 By The Editors
 Why do Catholics wave palms on Palm Sunday, wash each other’s feet on Holy Thursday, or kiss the cross on Good Friday? In an updated version of our classic video (with a bonus extra minute — because there’s a lot going on this week!), Busted Halo explains the significance of the final week we spend preparing for Easter.                                        WATCH NOW

Thanks to all who picked a card from the “Vocations Tree.” Please keep up the daily prayers for seminarians throughout Lent—and beyond, if you wish. By the way, did you notice each seminarian’s card lists his stage of formation? Did you wonder what it means? Archdiocesan seminarians go through many years of formation before ordination. A seminarian who has just begun his formation journey spends at least a year of further discernment and preparation (Propaedeutic Stage) before starting more rigorous studies. Then he enters the Discipleship Stage while earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy (First College, Second College, Third College, Fourth College). If he already has a bachelor’s degree, then he enters the Discipleship Stage while studying philosophy in a pre-theology program (First Pre-Theology, Second Pre-Theology). After the Discipleship Stage, a seminarian advances to the Configuration Stage while studying graduate-level theology for 3.5 to 5 years (First Theology, Second Theology, and so forth.). At any stage in his formation, a seminarian may spend a year at a parish (Pastoral Year). After being ordained a transitional deacon, but before being ordained a priest, a seminarian will complete the 6- to 12-month Vocational Synthesis Stage. If you picked a deacon, pray for him in a special way: He is preparing for ordination in June, God willing!

The Class of 1965 from Holy Redeemer School, Kensington, MD is holding a 60th year reunion on October 25, 2025.  Any member of the class of 1965 can contact Mike English at mfe0825@yahoo.com, Lois Veith-Boylan at boylan2@msn.com, Mary Dee Rosenberg-Prunchak at mprunchak@aol.com, and Tony Chite at tonycdeb@verizon.com for additional information.

We were shocked to learn via EWTN that 50% of struggling pregnant mothers that have abortions are in their 20's and that 60% of those having abortions have one or more children.  We can help these struggling mothers make the right decision by supplying them with the items they so desperately need. Please visit our Website for more information about the items needed. Women volunteers are urgently needed to assist these mothers. This includes keeping in touch with them via text, phone, or e-mail during their pregnancy; bringing them needed items, such as diapers, baby clothes, formula, etc., that are provided by the project; and praying for them. The average time commitment is 15 minutes or less per week. Men are also needed to set up cribs or to pick up donations once or twice per month. Join our volunteer team members so that we can help the more than 370 struggling moms and their families now being assisted. Please visit our Website for more information at www.gpmoco.org or contact Deirdre Whitty, whitty7@comcast.net or Sandy Buffalano, sbuffalano@aol.com.  

Mark your calendar……….

Tuesday, May 13^th.  This date is a two in one fellowship!

Our annual Memorial Mass (usually in June at Holy Redeemer) will be at 11.00 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace.  Father Mark Hughes will be our celebrant.  Before Mass you may write the name(s) of your loved ones in our Memorial book.

After Mass we will have a delicious buffet meal ($25) in the parish center with an Asian theme to it …