We celebrate two great feast days in this month. On Ascension Day, forty days after the Resurrection, as Christ ended his bodily presence on earth, we celebrate the fact that He carried our human nature, which He had assumed at the Incarnation, into Heaven. Our celebration of Ascension Day will be on the Eve, Wednesday, […]

On Easter Day, May 1, we will celebrate Mass at 11:00 am. Just as at the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, it is the Western tradition to allow for three celebrations of the Liturgy on Easter. Fr. Nicholas and Fr. Raphael beg to be excused from the Mass to be celebrated at dawn! […]

Our Lenten classes on the Fridays in April will be on the topic of models of repentance. On April 1: Repentance in the Old Testament; April 8: Repentance in the parables of our Lord; April 15: Repentance in the lives of the Apostles; and on April 22: Repentance in the lives of saints. We will […]

Happy Anniversary!   St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following day (the First Sunday of Lent that […]

Happy Anniversary! St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following […]

The great ‘blizzard of 2016,’ which paralyzed the Washington DC area for days, also had its impact on St. Gregory’s parish. This was to have been our visitation weekend from Bishop JOHN, but after attending the March for Life, Sayedna took the last train out of Washington to get home to Massachusetts and avoid being […]

As our beloved brother Subdeacon Jerome prepared to depart this life, so many of you visited him in the hospital, talked with him on the phone, and prayed for him. He certainly knew that he was loved and that was a great comfort to him in his last days. His funeral Mass will be at […]

Thanks to all who have helped and who will continue to help with moving things to our new property. This is a daunting task and we have certainly appreciated the use of Doug and Linda’s truck! Sunday, December 6, will be the biggest moving day, with the need for every remaining thing to be removed […]

Thanks to all who have participated in the work days at our new property, clearing leaves and dead tree branches and other yard work. The month of November brings a wonderful collection of feast days in the liturgical year, beginning with All Saints Day on Sunday, November 1. At the end of Mass that day, […]

We will celebrate two major feast days in October: We observe The feast day of St. Luke, one of the four Evangelists, a physician, an iconographer, and a missionary on October 18, which falls on a Sunday this year. The Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday in October reminds us that Christ […]