COMING IN JANUARY! New Time/Days for Daily Mass and Newly added Thursday Evening Adoration, Reconciliation, Mass

Starting Monday, January 6, 2025, the new Daily Mass Schedule will be as follows:

7 AM MONDAY, 8 AM THURSDAY, 7 AM FRIDAY
NO DAILY MASS ON TUESDAY or WEDNESDAY

Staring January 9, 2025, the Parish will also offer the following on Thursday Evenings:
ADORATION and RECONCILIATION will start at 6 PM concluding with MASS at 7 PM

We hope this will give more people an opportunity to attend Daily Mass, Adoration, and Reconciliation. Please note that the parking lot on Manassas Ave is available to be used for morning Mass and for Evening events.

Adoration by Deacon Joshua Choong, SJ
Why would I not want to spend time with the one I love? At the core of Eucharistic Adoration is an encounter with a person – Christ who loves us. The exposition of the Holy Eucharist for the worship of the Eucharist outside Mass is an opportunity to spend time before the Real Presence of Christ. The Mass is the source and summit of Christian life, when we adore, receive, and are united with Christ in a profoundly communal setting. Eucharistic Adoration is the continuation of that adoration and unity with Christ that
began at Mass, prolonging and intensifying all that had taken place during the Mass like an overflow from the love of Christ. Adoration influences and deepens our participation during the Mass. At the same time, the Mass supports our prayer experience during Adoration. Our time spent in prayer with Christ before the Real Presence during Eucharistic Adoration helps us cultivate a deep love for Christ. Our infinite dignity exists because each one of us is made in the image of God. We are loved uniquely from all eternity by God. When we experience this love from God, our response is to love God by reaching out
to others in love and to affirm their dignity powerfully. By breaking down the walls that separate us from one another, we are united not only with Christ in the Eucharist but also with one another. Strengthened by the Eucharist, we witness to the Risen Christ. Eucharistic Adoration provides the space and time for
private prayer, reflection, rest, and silence. The setting is unscripted – we are free to spend time before Christ’s Presence however we want, whether in silent prayer, praise, meditation, contemplation, lamentation, praying the rosary, or reading the Bible. If you do not know what to do or how to spend the time, rest in the silence and Christ’s Presence, or you could always speak to Christ from the heart and listen to Christ’s voice for insight, consolation, or affirmation. Above all, the focus is on Christ’s gift of self, his love for us.