Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church

10/17/2022

Join us for Fall Oysterfest at Saint Francis de Sales on November 5th!

Local oysters, fried, scalded, and raw... Steamed shrimp, ham, and more!

Make your reservations soon... details below:

05/28/2022

Join us at St. Francis de Sales Church on Tuesday, 31 May; High Mass will be sung in honor of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces at 7:00 PM.

“The Holy Eucharist is the Bread that comes from our Heavenly Mother. It is Bread produced by Mary from the flour of Her immaculate flesh, kneaded into dough with her virginal milk. St. Augustine wrote, "Jesus took His Flesh from the flesh of Mary."

We know, too, that united to the Divinity in the Eucharist there is Jesus' Body and Blood taken from the body and blood of the Blessed Virgin. Therefore at every Holy Communion we receive, it would be quite correct, and a very beautiful thing, to take notice of our Holy Mother's sweet and mysterious presence, inseparably united with Jesus in the Host. Jesus is always the Son She adores. He is Flesh of Her flesh and Blood of Her blood. If Adam could call Eve when she had been taken from his rib, "bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh" (Gen. 2:23), cannot the holy Virgin Mary even more rightly call Jesus 'Flesh of my flesh and Blood of my blood"? Taken from the "intact Virgin" as says St. Thomas Aquinas, the flesh of Jesus is the maternal flesh of Mary, the blood of Jesus is the maternal blood of Mary. Therefore it will never be possible to separate Jesus from Mary.

For this reason at every Holy Mass which is celebrated, the Blessed Virgin can repeat with truth to Jesus in the Host and in the Chalice, "You are my Son today I have generated You" (Ps. 2:7). And justly St. Augustine teaches us that in the Eucharist "Mary extends and perpetuates Her Divine Maternity", while St. Albert the Great exhorts with love, "My Soul if you wish to experience intimacy with Mary let yourself be carried between Her arms and nourished with Her blood.” Go with this ineffable chaste thought to the banquet of God and you will find in the Blood of the Son the nourishment of the Mother.

Many Saints and theologians—St. Peter Damian, St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernadine—say that Jesus instituted the Eucharist above all for Mary and then through Mary, the Universal Mediatrix of All Graces, for all of us. And from Mary therefore Jesus comes to be given to us day by day; and in Jesus is always the Immaculate flesh and the Virginal blood of His Most Holy Mother which penetrates into our hearts and inebriates our souls. In an ecstasy during the celebration of Holy Mass, St. Ignatius of Loyola contemplated one day the reality revealed by this most sweet truth and he remained celestially moved for a long time.”

-Fr Stefano Manelli, “Jesus Our Eucharistic Love”

04/05/2022

Juxta Crucem tecum stare,
et me tibi sociáre
in planctu desídero

PALM SUNDAY—10 APRIL
9:00 AM English Mass
11:00 AM High Mass

MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK—11 APRIL
9:00 AM Low Mass

SPY WEDNESDAY—13 APRIL
6:00 PM Adoration and Confessions
7:00 PM Low Mass

HOLY THURSDAY—14 APRIL
7:00 PM High Mass
Watch at the Altar of Repose until Midnight

GOOD FRIDAY—15 APRIL
10:00 AM Stations of the Cross
12:00 Noon Mass of the Presanctified
3:00 PM Veneration of the Relic of the True Cross

HOLY SATURDAY—16 APRIL
8:00 PM Great Vigil of Easter

EASTER SUNDAY—17 APRIL
8:00 AM Low Mass
9:00 AM English Mass
11:00 AM High Mass

03/24/2022

Tomorrow, March 25th, AD 2022:

High Mass of the Annunciation- 9:00 AM

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10:00 AM-12:00 Noon

Prayer of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 12:00 Noon

Stations of the Cross 6:00 PM

Please note there will be *no meal* at the hall this week following Stations, as we prepare for the Oysterfest on Saturday

02/22/2022

Join us for our annual Spring Oysterfest on Saturday, March 26 from 12-3 pm at Saint Francis de Sales church hall featuring whole BBQ pig.

02/17/2022

Reminder: Today is the Feast of Reparation for Offenses Against the Most Holy Sacrament. Exposition continues throughout the day, and a High Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 PM, followed by Benediction. Please join us in person or in spirit to offer the Eucharistic Jesus the gift of your love.

01/05/2022

HIGH MASS FOR THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY -- 7:00 PM

On Thursday, 6 January, A.D. 2022, a Missa Cantata will be celebrated for the Feast of the Epiphany at 7:00 PM at S. Francis de Sales Church in Benedict, Maryland. Please note that there was a typographical error in last Sunday's bulletin, indicating a 9:00 AM mass, which was corrected in some copies. The only mass of the day will be in the evening.

May our Infant King bless you as we continue to celebrate the Christmas Season.

10/30/2021

UPCOMING FESTAL MASSES

OCTOBER 31- Feast of Christ the King
Low Mass: 8 AM
High Mass and Procession 11 AM

NOVEMBER 1- All Saint's Day
Low Mass: 9 AM
English Mass 6 PM
High Mass 7 PM

November 2- All Souls Day
Low Mass 9 AM
Low Mass 9:30 AM
High Mass 7 PM

04/26/2021

The cunning of the devil who uses our fear for the body to separate us from eternal life in Christ.

Video from Fr. Jeffrey Kirby's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/HE4svdhRhTk

04/24/2021

04/23/2021

Join us this Sunday, 25 April, at 10:45 AM, for the observance of the Major Rogation. The litanies will be sung in procession before returning to the Church for 11:00 AM Mass for the External Solemnity of the Patronage of S. Joseph. Following this Mass, we will renew the parish consecration to S. Joseph, seeking his special protection and intercession in this year dedicated in his honor.

The 5:30 PM Low Mass will be for the Feast of S. Mark.

04/20/2021

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on vaccinations:

“At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary. In any case, from the ethical point of view, the morality of vaccination depends not only on the duty to protect one's own health, but also on the duty to pursue the common good. In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed. Those who, however, for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent. In particular, they must avoid any risk to the health of those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons, and who are the most vulnerable.”

Source:

Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines, 21 December 2020