First Sunday of Advent
November 30, 2025
9:30 am
SAVE THE DATE - ADVENT EVENT! - The HR Women's Program will be hosting their Advent Event on Monday, December 1, 2025, 7 pm, in the Main Church. There will be Reflections by Ashley McGuire, Adoration, Music, Confession & Benediction followed by a social in the Community Room. It will be a beautiful, peaceful evening to help us enter into the season of Advent. All women are welcome - please join us and bring friends.
4pm Christmas Mass Pageant- If you are interested in your child being in the Christmas Pageant, which takes place during the Gospel of the 4pm Christmas Eve Mass, please contact Joe Ryan at HRMusicJoe@gmail.com. Children in grades 2-5 are welcome to participate. Please send an email with your child’s name and grade. Space is limited, and attendance at practices is mandatory.
February 14, 2026, Wedding Anniversary Mass to Celebrate the Vocation of Marriage
Join us at the Annual Wedding Anniversary Mass to honor the Vocation of Marriage on Saturday, February 14, 2026, 10:00 a.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. This Annual Mass is a celebration of the living vocation of all couples who provide a Catholic witness to the beauty of the Sacrament of Matrimony. Couples, please register with Holy Redeemer's parish office by February 6, 2026, to attend the Mass and/or request a certificate in honor of your anniversary year. All married couples and their families are welcome, regardless of how long you have been married. Please contact Holy Redeemer parish office to register. 301-942-2333 or parish@hrs-ken.org
THE GABRIEL PROJECT NEEDS YOUR HELP! We need Angel Friends for the Gabriel Project Cluster to help provide support to pregnant moms in need and their families. Angel Friends deliver needed items, provided by the project, to struggling pregnant client mothers in Montgomery County. Many of these clients have been told: “No one will help you.” The average time commitment is 20 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 more needy, struggling pregnant moms. Recently 4 husband-and-wife teams have volunteered. Another current need is for Christmas gifts for the children. We provide a gift for each child in the family. If you are able to help, please visit our Website for more information at www.gpmoco.org - you will need to scroll down the list to see the requested toys. For additional information, contact Deirdre Whitty, whitty7@comcast.net or Sandy Buffalano, sbuffalano@aol.com
Monday, December 8, 2025 The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation. Masses will be offered
at 6:45 am and 9:00 am and 7:30 pm
Advents Schedule
Wednesday in Advent
Confessions 6:15 - 7:15 pm
Mass 7:30 pm
December 3, 10, 17
Our Parish Giving Trees will be taken up for
Mission Togo in Lomé Togo and Farm of the Child in Honduras.
We thank you for your continued support.
Come Let us Adore Him!
During Advent this year, we will have Praise and Worship Sessions on Thursdays, Dec. 4, 11, and 18 from 7-8 pm consisting of Adoration, music, a short meditation, confession, and benediction.
On Thursday December 11th, we will also have extended 24-hour Adoration within the main church following Praise and Worship. Adoration will be available from 8 PM on Thursday December 11th until 8 PM on Friday December 12th. It should also be noted that our regular hours of Adoration will still begin in the Adoration Chapel at 4 PM on Thursday December 11th and continue until Praise and Worship begins at 7 PM.
During Adoration and Exposition of the Eucharist, a volunteer must be present with our Lord at all times. As a result, we are in need of volunteers for every hour. Volunteers can sign up for a specific hour of Adoration at the following link:
During the regular Mass times at 6:45 AM and 9:00 AM on Friday December 12th, the Eucharist will be reposed; however, Adoration will continue immediately following both of these masses.
“Behold, I am with you always.” — Matthew 28:20
“The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love... Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in Adoration and Contemplation full of faith.”— St. John Paul II
“In the Eucharist, we find everything. There is the whole mystery of our salvation... A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”— St. Padre Pio
