Mark your Calendars for upcoming events!

October 8 Please join us after the 10:30am Mass for our book discussion led by Fr. Paschal and Dcn. Jacob on “This Is My Body”

October 15 Our Bull and Oyster Roast!

November 12 Please join us after the 10:30am Mass in the Notre Dame room for a seminar and discussion about dementia hosed by the Department of Aging.

Stay tuned as we add more dates and information!

Saint Benedict - Celebrating 130 Years

Stations of the Cross Book Available!

Saint Benedict Parish is pleased to announce their newly published Stations of the Cross devotional book featuring the Neo-Gothic Stations of Saint Benedict Parish executed by Philadelphia's D’Ascensio Studios ca. 1933. This 48 page book, printed with sanguine and metallic inks, features meditations by James E. Adams and contains an introduction to Stations devotion and a history of their development in the life of the Church. Handsomely printed and bound, this book is the perfect Lenten companion for private meditation in the home or in church.

The release of this book is held in conjunction with the ‘Christ Renews His Parish’ renewal. Fr. Paschal Morlino, O.S.B., Pastor of the parish, hopes that "this small treasure of prayer and reflection will lift you up during Lent and beyond, to lead you to the foot of the Cross of our redemption with His Mother. And then to the Empty Tomb where we join the apostles, and the angels, in proclaiming, “Glory to Thee, O Christ our God, glory to Thee!”


Stations of the Cross Books available in Gift Shop

Cost: $10 each

 

Gift Shop Hours

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesdays and Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 
Sundays: After mass
Closed Mondays

Gift Shop Phone: (410) 947-4988

 

 

Our Lenten Schedule 2023

Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Ashes will be distributed at following:
Mass - 8:00 AM & 7:00 PM
Morning Prayer - 7:15 AM
Noon Prayer - 12:05 PM

Lenten Weekday Masses
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday - 8:00 AM
Wednesday - 6:30 PM
Saturday - 8:30 AM

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Each Wednesday - 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM
followed by Vespers and Benediction

Stations of the Cross and Benediction
Fridays - 6:30 PM
followed by Soup and Sandwiches in the Notre Dame Room

Reconciliation (Confession)
Ash Wednesday following Noon Prayer
Saturdays - 3:30 PM
Penance Service, March 27th - 7:15 PM
Anytime by appointment

Benedictine Annual Appeal - Thank You!

The Benedictine monks of SaintVincent Archabbey wish to express their deepest gratitude for the parish's generous response to their Annual Appeal. With such a benevolent response, the parishioners of Saint Benedict have joined the Benedictine community in serving the Church through the monks' various pastoral, educational, and missionary endeavors locally and throughout the world. Thank you for your generous support! 

Benedict's Pantry Thanks You!

Our Pantry would like to take a moment to thank the parishioners who generously donated school supplies (and sent prayers) to this year's Back Pack Distribution. We successfully distributed 125 backpacks to children who live in the community. With these supplies, the children will begin their school year with some of the basic tools they need to help them succeed.

A Message From Fr. Paschal

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. Benedict,

Time is here again for us to announce the upcoming events of the fall and winter, as well as to bring you up to date on some things going on in and around the parish.

At present the gardens around the parish are quite lush and in full bloom, the veggies are beginning to produce abundantly, tomatoes, squash, pepper, eggplants, and cucumbers all surrounded by crepe myrtles in various shades. It is a most welcoming sight to behold.

Our radio station: WVTO 92.7 FM is now broadcasting 24 hours a day. It is beamed from atop the bell tower of the church with a 6 mile radius, mainly Relevant Radio programming, very fine Catholic Talk Radio. We make announcements and breaks for local news and information. It is sponsored by tax deductible donations made out to WVTO at our address.

The ten-year project of replacing the windows in the Parish Center is now 90% complete. The monies from the Window Fund Raffle have accomplished this major undertaking. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BOUGHT TICKETS OVER THE YEARS. 

Our next major undertaking will be the installation of a drainage system and the resurfacing of the parking areas in and around the Parish Center and the Church, all of which are badly needed.

In the neighborhood, we will soon be seeing the opening of the Frederick Elementary School in September which will be hi-tech and up to date in every way; it will also be a charter school with many special features made available to the local students. It has been a tremendous undertaking by the City to bring education up to par. 

During this 100th Anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, there have been special prayer events at the grotto and in Church. I will be remembering all of you in my prayers when I am in Fatima with our pilgrimage group on the 13th of October.

At the end of June, we had the good fortune to have a visiting priest move into the rectory with us. Rev. Agapitus Businge from Uganda. He will be here for approximately two years working on his dissertation for his PhD from Catholic University in DC. Fr. Agapitus has been a great asset to the parish since his arrival.

Our Friday Night free movies this summer have been excellent with such a great variety of films and very good ones too. Everyone who has attended has truly enjoyed them. This is an effort of our evangelization team to reach out to the neighborhood.

Yours in Christ and St. Benedict,

Fr. Paschal Morlino, O.S.B.
Pastor

St. Agnes Hospital Volunteers

Saint Agnes Hospital is looking for parish Eucharistic Ministers to bring Holy Communion to Catholics at our hospital. We will work with your schedule.  Please consider bringing the gift of peace and comfort found in the Eucharist to those who yearn for such hope.  For an application packet call or email Michelle Slafkosky, Manager of Volunteer Services, at 667-234-2817 or mslafkos@stagnes.org.

Be Informed: Faith and Voting

November 8th (and early voting) is coming soon. Saint Benedict strongly urges all parishioners to register, to become informed on key issues, and to vote.The Church does not support or oppose any candidate, but seeks to focus attention on the moral and human dimensions of issues. 


Disclaimer: Saint Benedict does not authorize the distribution of partisan political materials on parish property.