Hurray! the pews of praise memorial plaques will be installed by July 6, Blessing of the pews to follow.

July 9-11- VBS- Vacation Bible School

St. Mary's has adopted Mary's House a transitional home for the homeless and those needing emergency housing. A list of items the house needs are listed on a collection bin the the vestibule.

Let us share and spread the Gospel through our actions.

Fathers Day Brunch June 15, come, enjoy as the the women prepare to serve and honor the men of the church for a wonderful Father's Day Brunch after Mass.

Eucharistic and Liturgy Training will be held Saturday Jun 22, St. Mary's, after Mass. If you are interested in becoming a Eurcharistic minister or Lecturer, please attend this workshop. For information contact Wade White.

Also, the church has formed a "Homebound ministry" to visit the sick and shut-in to visit and take communion. If you are a Eucharistic minister and want to serve in this outreach ministry, please see Linda Coleman-Madison or BessyWilliams. We look forward to our sister parish Holy Family joining the team.

Protecting our Environment- June 8, John Meehan, Environmental Chair will be distributing one gallon containers for household cooking grease with a list of drop off locations.

Serving Christ by serving others (ongoing mission)
Community Outreach: St. Mary's is collecting travel size tolietries, and individual snacks for Mary's House which is a transitional home in Ensley for families and individuals. collection bin located in the vestibule. Thanks Jackie McTerry for agreeing to coordinate effort.

Items of need: toothpaste, tooth brushes, deodorent, lotion, men razors, shaving cream, sunscreen, soap, shampoo, conditioner, emergency pouches, hand sanitizer, individual puddings, cookies, ships, crackers, other snacks, men and women socks. other items (cleaning supplies, detergent, toilet tissue and paper products)

May 4, 50th Ordination Celebration, Fr. John Hilgert, C.P. Mass 9:00 am reception brunch to follow in social hall.

April 27th - Fr. Phil Paxton, C.P. , 30th Anniversary of Ordination Holy Family 9 am (Joint Mass)brunch reception to follow

HOLY WEEK Schedule

17th Holy Thursday ---------------Joint Mass St. Mary’s 6:30PM

18th Good Friday----------------- Joint Mass Holy Family 6:30 PM

19th Easter Vigil Mass ---------- Joint Mass Holy Family 6:30 PM

* 20th Easter Sunday --------------------Mass both parishes

St. Mary’s Little Angels Easter program

Easter Food Drive

Please bring non-parishable food items for the Easter food drive. Box located in vestibule.

Easter lillies on sale $20. See Donita White if you wish to purchase a lilly in remembrance of a loved one.

HF Enrichment now offering free line dance classes on Tuesdays. call or go by the ccenter (old Holy Family HS gym). Get in shape while promoting good health.

Fr. John Hilgert will be visiting St. Mary's to celebrate his 50th ordination, Sunday May 4

(join us for Mass and brunch reception )

Continue Praying for the Holy Father's recovery

* Dates to Remember March: *

March 5, Ash Wednesday, begins the Lenten Season

Mass 12:30 HF, 6:30 SM

Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent 6:30

St. Mary's 82nd Church Anniversary March 2, 9:00 am

reception to follow

Support Catholic Education

Holy Family Catholic Academy, Scholarship Jazz Brunch, March 29, 11 am HF Entertainment Center tickets $75 (tax deductable)

NOTE: joint alternating mass on 5th Sundays (no Saturday Mass on weekends; only one Mass at HF on these dates, joint choirs)

Joint Mass Dates:

March 30- (5th Sunday Joint Mass at HF 9 am

* June 29, St. Mary's, 9 am)

August 31, Holy Family, 9 am

November 30, St. Mary's, 9 am

Holy Family parish hall.

Office of Black Catholics MLK Annual Unity Breakfast is March 1, St.Peter the Apostle on Patton Chaple Rd, 10:00 am

- tickets $25

Parish Council election results. Congratulations to all called to serve the church:

Wade White- Chair

Philip Palmer- Vice Chair

LeNa McDonald- Secretary

Monica Hatcher- Asst. Secretary

Albert Soles

Eusebia Sanderson

La Quitta Harris

Linda Coleman-Madison

*Alternate- Cassandra Ferguson

New meeting date & time for parish council. 2nd Saturday in the month at 10 am at the church

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Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 4pm, Mass HF

11:30 pm Choir Concert, St. Marys followed by Christmas midnight Mass

Dec. 25. Christmas 9 am Mass HF

Advent/ Christmas Schedule

St. Mary's will be distributing Christmas food boxes for needy families Dec. 20-22

(first come, see Donita White)

Dec. 9, Immaculate Conception Mass,

Holy Family 12:30 pm and 6:30 pm at St. Mary's

Dec. 16, Stations of the Crib 6:30 pm Holy Family (HF)

Dec. 22 Advent Program (St. Mary's Little Angels 9:15 start of Mass

December 12, VIP Mass, 12 noon Holy Family

Sunday Dec. 22nd last Sunday Advent. Join us for 9:15 morning Mass entrance. The youth of St. Mary's will present readings to recap the Advent Sunday season and their meanings as they relight the Advent candles. Prepare ye the Way!

Pews of Praise

A St. Mary's initiative to provide financial resources for church maintenance, increase our building fund, purhcase a new claranova, and offer a way for members, to honor their families and loved ones by sponsoring a pew. There are several options:

$1,000 entire pew (one sponsor)

$500 1/2 pew (two sponsors)

$250 (4 members sponsor)

a plate with the sponsors' name will be placed on the desinated pew (in memory of , in honor of, or in remembrance of ). There is a payment plan, see Cassie Ferguson. Sign-up forms in the vestibule. Honorable mention/donations $150 and over.

November 10: Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Court will turn out, 9:00 AM Mass, St. Mary's reception to follow

Sunday October 20, We remember the founder of the Passionist Order, St. Paul of the Cross Sunday

October 19, Financial Literacy Workshop, public invited

Wills, Estate Planning and Insurance

10-2, St. Mary's Social Hall

breakfast served at 10 am

this is the 2nd in a series of financial literacy workshops

VIP Mass/ Luncheon resumes, 12 noon 2nd Tuesday/mo

RCIA Class Mondays 6:30 PM

Holy Family Social Hall

for information see Wade White

Young ADULT Bible study

Wednesday at 6 pm at Holy Family.

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October 4, Green Mass

St. Joseph's Catholic Church 7 PM

A celebration of our common home

August 17, 10:00 am Joint Passionist Leadership Meeting

St. Mary's Parish Hall (potluck bring your favorite dish to share)

St. Mary's and Holy Family Community Outreach Initiative

Prayer Breakfast August 10th

Saturday 9:30 Parish Hall

Fr. Hugo Esparza, C.P. speaker

tickets are $10 ea or 2 for $15

July 27, FREE Financial Literacy Workshop

10-2, St. Mary's Social Hall

Financial literacy empowers you to be in control of your financial well-being and build a secure future. this is the first in a series of Financial literacy workshops.

July 14, 9:00 am, Holy Famliy Entertainment Ctr.

Joint Parish Town Hall Meeting NOTE: There will one mass on the 14th; one Mass at 9:00 am in the gym followed by a town hall meeting and brunch. NOTE: There will be no Saturday Mass

If you attend Saturday Mass, please make a special effort to attend the joint Mass. Stay informed, stay connected and stay involved with the church. Please encourgage all members to attend. your talents are needed.

July 8-12, Vacation Bible School 6-8 pm

The Passionist Community of St. Mary's and Holy Family will host joint VBS; for details see Wade White or Alex Brewer.

June 30 is Family & Friends Day - Also we will be honoring the 2024 Elizabeth Davis Service Award Recipients. Invite your family and friends and join us for 9:15 am Mass.

June 16, Father's Day Brunch

Hosted by the women to honor the men of our church. St. Mary's Social Hall

May 12, Mother's Day Brunch St. Mary's Social Hall served with love by the men of the parish to honor the women of the church. Please join us after Mass

Community Outreach- The Joint Passionist Leadership meetings (St. Mary's and Holy Family), for details see Fr. Phil and Fr. Hugo; parishioners are asked to make a committment of time and talents for these projects community outreach projects. Each one reach one rech one.

Let us be fruitful and multiply

Adult Catechism (RCIA) refresher classes -

Mondays, 6:30 pm

St. Mary's large meeting room (one hour). Wade White, facilitator

Holy Family Academy Principal Search filled

Holy Family Pre K-4 has a new principal. We are blessed to have a small school population and low teacher pupil ratio. For enrollment information contact Holy FamilyAcademy

HFCA school: (205) 780-5858 for information.

Get Involved With Your Church

There's a Place for You (Church ministries' meetings)

Parish Council: 1st Saturday, 10: 00 am (Wade White)

Finance Committee: 4th Saturday (Tammy Rogers)

Liturgy/Altar Society: 3rd Sunday after Mass (Att. Monica Hatcher)

Choir: every Wednesday 6:30 (Donita White)

Men's Club: 4th Sunday after Mass (Philip Palmer)

Repast Committee: 2nd Saturday 11:00 am, bi-monthly (Bessy Williams)

Social Action: call of Chair (John Meehan)

Parish Outreach

Your Parish Council Members and Officers:

LaQuita Harris, Att. Monica Hatcher, John Meehan, Linda Coleman-Madison, Jackie McTerry, Philip Palmer, Patricia Rodgers, and Bessie Williams.

Officers: Linda Coleman-Madison, Chair, Vice, Chair, Jacqueline McTerry, Sec., Att. Monica Hatcher

PARISH COUNCIL ELECTION is November 2024 November is Parish Council election month. If you are interested in serving on council, please let a member of the council or Fr. Phil know. All members 18 and over are eligible.

NOTE: The Parish Council meets the First Saturday in each month at 11:00 am.

Meetings are open to all parishioner.

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Saturday, April 13, 11:00 a.m Memorial Mass for Fr. Bob Crossmyer at Holy Family

Saturday April 20, 11:00 am Holy Family Academy Scholarship Jazz Brunch

Holy Family Community Entertainment Center (formally HF gym)

tickets $75. tax deductable support catholic education

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Holy Week/ Easter Schedule

March 24 --- Palm Sunday

March 28 --- Holy Thursday Joint Mass 6:00 pm St. Mary's

March 29 ----Good friday Joit Mass Holy Family 6:30 pm

March 30 ----Holy Sat. Easter Vigil Joint Mass Holy Family 7 pm

March 31 --- Easter, Mass 9:00 am (children's Easter program)

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Christmas Schedule

. Dec. 23, No Saturday Mass

. Dec. 24, 9:15 am Mass & Youth Christmas Program

Christmas Eve

. Dec 24, Saturday, Vigil Mass at St. Mary's 4:00 pm

Midnight Mass will be at Holy Family 12 am

Christmas Day

. Dec. 25, Mass at 9:15 am

. New Year's Day Mass at 9:00 am

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Celebrating All Saints and All Souls in November All Saints Mass Nov.1, at St. Mary's 6:30

We've Come This far by Faith

The Passionist Community of Alabama will celebrate over 8 decades October 21, 2023, 3-6 pm., with a banquet. Holy Family Entertainment Center (former HF gym). Tickets are $50, tables $400. Only 240 tickets will be sold: get your ticket(s) now. Don't miss this historic event. Deadline for ticket sales is October 15th.

The 80th Anniversary Banquet of St. Mary's, and 85th anniversary of Holy Family Catholic Churches in conjunction with St. Paul of the Cross; Banquet is Saturday, October 21. We celebrate the history and legacy of the Passionist and their contributions to the Birmingham area and Ensley Communities. We pay honor to all the priests (past and current), nurses, teachers and others who have served and continue to serve the communities of Ensley and Fairfield. Please contact co-chairs Monica Hatcher, St. Mary's, or Annette Davis, Holy Family.

For tickets see Donita White or Jackie McTerry

Green Mass

The Third Annual Green Mass honoring the Feast Day of St. Francis Assisi patron saint of animals and the earth will take place Wednesday, October 4, at 6:00 P.M. at Holy Family Catholic Church, 1910 -19^th Street Ensley.

The Mass will also honor Environmental Groups for their Advocacy in protecting the earth. Public is invited. For more information contact Holy Family (205)780-3440 or (205)-616-3027.

Holy Family Alabama Historical Commission Designation

Holy Cross Providence Passionist Community of Alabama (Holy Family) is now registered and listed in the Alabama Register of Historic Landmarks and Heritage. The enitre campus of Holy Family including the hospital is listed. These are the footprints of the Passionists and the lgeacy which has endured through the ages. NOTE: All buildings are still in use with exception of the hospital.

New Heating and Air Unit Drive Still Going

Parishioners are asked to donate toward the new HVCA units. Please contribute to St. Mary's Building Fund. Whatever you donate is appreciated. Be Blessed

VIP Senior Mass/ Luncheon resumes

thru May 2024, at noon, St. Mary's parish hall. the meetings will alternate every other month between St. Marys and Holy Family. Come be spiritually fed, socialize with friends and meet new friends and enjoy informative speakers.

Hurray! the pews of praise memorial plaques will be installed by July 6, Blessing of the pews to follow.

July 9-11- VBS- Vacation Bible School

St. Mary's has adopted Mary's House a transitional home for the homeless and those needing emergency housing. A list of items the house needs are listed on a collection bin the the vestibule.

Let us share and spread the Gospel through our actions.

Fathers Day Brunch June 15, come, enjoy as the the women prepare to serve and honor the men of the church for a wonderful Father's Day Brunch after Mass.

Eucharistic and Liturgy Training will be held Saturday Jun 22, St. Mary's, after Mass. If you are interested in becoming a Eurcharistic minister or Lecturer, please attend this workshop. For information contact Wade White.

Protecting our Environment- June 8, John Meehan, Environmental Chair will be distributing one gallon containers for household cooking grease with a list of drop off locations.

May 4, 50th Ordination Celebration, Fr. John Hilgert, C.P. Mass 9:00 am reception brunch to follow in social hall.

April 27th - Fr. Phil Paxton, C.P. , 30th Anniversary of Ordination Holy Family 9 am (Joint Mass)brunch reception to follow

HOLY WEEK Schedule

17th Holy Thursday ---------------Joint Mass St. Mary’s 6:30PM

18th Good Friday----------------- Joint Mass Holy Family 6:30 PM

19th Easter Vigil Mass ---------- Joint Mass Holy Family 6:30 PM

* 20th Easter Sunday --------------------Mass both parishes

St. Mary’s Little Angels Easter program

Easter Food Drive

Please bring non-parishable food items for the Easter food drive. Box located in vestibule.

Easter lillies on sale $20. See Donita White if you wish to purchase a lilly in remembrance of a loved one.

HF Enrichment now offering free line dance classes on Tuesdays. call or go by the ccenter (old Holy Family HS gym). Get in shape while promoting good health.

Fr. John Hilgert will be visiting St. Mary's to celebrate his 50th ordination, Sunday May 4

(join us for Mass and brunch reception )

Continue Praying for the Holy Father's recovery

***** Dates to Remember March: *****

March 5, Ash Wednesday, begins the Lenten Season

Mass 12:30 HF, 6:30 SM

Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent 6:30

St. Mary's 82nd Church Anniversary March 2, 9:00 am

reception to follow

Support Catholic Education

Holy Family Catholic Academy, Scholarship Jazz Brunch, March 29, 11 am HF Entertainment Center tickets $75 (tax deductable)

NOTE: joint alternating mass on 5th Sundays (no Saturday Mass on weekends; only one Mass at HF on these dates, joint choirs)

Joint Mass Dates:

March 30- (5th Sunday Joint Mass at HF 9 am

* June 29, St. Mary's, 9 am)

August 31, Holy Family, 9 am

November 30, St. Mary's, 9 am

Holy Family parish hall.

Office of Black Catholics MLK Annual Unity Breakfast is March 1, St.Peter the Apostle on Patton Chaple Rd, 10:00 am

- tickets $25

Parish Council election results. Congratulations to all called to serve the church:

Wade White- Chair

Philip Palmer- Vice Chair

LeNa McDonald- Secretary

Monica Hatcher- Asst. Secretary

Albert Soles

Eusebia Sanderson

La Quitta Harris

Linda Coleman-Madison

*Alternate- Cassandra Ferguson

New meeting date & time for parish council. 2nd Saturday in the month at 10 am at the church

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Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 4pm, Mass HF

11:30 pm Choir Concert, St. Marys followed by Christmas midnight Mass

Dec. 25. Christmas 9 am Mass HF

Advent/ Christmas Schedule

St. Mary's will be distributing Christmas food boxes for needy families Dec. 20-22

(first come, see Donita White)

Dec. 9, Immaculate Conception Mass,

Holy Family 12:30 pm and 6:30 pm at St. Mary's

Dec. 16, Stations of the Crib 6:30 pm Holy Family (HF)

Dec. 22 Advent Program (St. Mary's Little Angels 9:15 start of Mass

December 12, VIP Mass, 12 noon Holy Family

Sunday Dec. 22nd last Sunday Advent. Join us for 9:15 morning Mass entrance. The youth of St. Mary's will present readings to recap the Advent Sunday season and their meanings as they relight the Advent candles. Prepare ye the Way!

Pews of Praise

A St. Mary's initiative to provide financial resources for church maintenance, increase our building fund, purhcase a new claranova, and offer a way for members, to honor their families and loved ones by sponsoring a pew. There are several options:

$1,000 entire pew (one sponsor)

$500 1/2 pew (two sponsors)

$250 (4 members sponsor)

a plate with the sponsors' name will be placed on the desinated pew (in memory of , in honor of, or in remembrance of ). There is a payment plan, see Cassie Ferguson. Sign-up forms in the vestibule. Honorable mention/donations $150 and over.

November 10: Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Court will turn out, 9:00 AM Mass, St. Mary's reception to follow

Sunday October 20, We remember the founder of the Passionist Order, St. Paul of the Cross Sunday

October 19, Financial Literacy Workshop, public invited

Wills, Estate Planning and Insurance

10-2, St. Mary's Social Hall

breakfast served at 10 am

this is the 2nd in a series of financial literacy workshops

RCIA Class Mondays 6:30 PM

Holy Family Social Hall

A celebration of our common home

August 17, 10:00 am Joint Passionist Leadership Meeting

* Dates to Remember March: *

St. Mary's Prayer Breakfast

August 10, 2024

Parish Social Hall, 9:30 am

Speaker- Fr. Hugo, C.P.

Join us as the families of St. Mary's pray for our families, church, community, the environment and the world at-large