Author: Janis Devore

All Saints Pre-Kindergarten Program (for 4-year-old children) offers a nurturing environment and a well rounded faith and academic focus that includes religion, art, music, and library. Our hands-on, interactive learning approach will engage your child and provide a strong educational foundation.

Special activities throughout the year include:

• Alpha Bucket Letter of the Week
• Annual Pre-K Christmas Pageant
• Friends Around the World Celebration
• Weekly Science Experiments
• Storybook Parade
• 8th grade Buddy Program

Before and after school care is available. For additional information, please contact Mrs. Mary Rodriguez at 571-516-3170 or admissions@allsaintsva.org.

Visit the school’s website at allsaintsvaschool.org/

All Saints offers the Sacrament of Reconciliation on the following dates:

• Wednesday, June 18: 6:30–8:00PM
• Saturday, June 21:  3:00–4:00 PM

First Friday
For the First Friday of each month, we have the following schedule:

Confession – after 7:00 AM Mass
Confession –  7:00 – 7:45 PM
Mass in Spanish – 8:00 PM 

Please note that for the morning confessions, once we have posted a sign that the confession line is closed, please do not enter the line. This will allow us to finish those who have already been waiting in line and will allow the priests to finish before the 8:30 AM Mass. One should not miss a part of the Mass (for example, the Liturgy of the Word or the Liturgy of the Eucharist) due to being in Confession. Also, please do not put “placeholders” for a place in line, such as a hymnal on the floor, during Mass. We ask those in line to be considerate of others. Thank you

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Todos los Santos ofrece el Sacramento de la Reconciliación en las siguientes fechas:

• Miércoles 18 de junio: 6:30–8:00PM
• Sábado, 21 de junio: 3:00–4:00 PM

Primer Viernes
Para el primer viernes de cada mes, tenemos el siguiente horario:

Confesiones – Después de la misa de 7:00 AM 
Confessions – 7:00 – 7:45 PM 
Misa en Español  – 8:00 PM 

Tenga en cuenta que para las confesiones de la mañana, una vez que hayamos colocado un letrero de que la línea de confesión está cerrada, no ingrese a la línea. Esto nos ermitirá terminar con aquellos que ya han estado esperando en la fila y permitirá que los sacerdotes terminen antes de la Misa de las 8:30 AM. No se debe perder una parte de la isa (por ejemplo, la Liturgia de la Palabra o la Liturgia de la Eucaristía) por estar en Confesión. Además, no coloque “marcadores de posición” para un lugar en la fila, como un himnario en el piso, durante la misa. Les pedimos a los que están en la fila que sean considerados con los demás. Gracias.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament — Adoration

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel is available at the times listed below.

• Wednesday, 9:00 AM until Thursday, 6:45 AM;
• Thursday, 7:00 PM until Friday, 6:45 AM;
• Friday, 8:00 PM until Saturday, 7:00 AM. Note that the Rosary will be held in the chapel, Sunday evening, after the 7:00 PM Mass, from 8:00 PM until Monday, 6:45 AM.

We do not have Exposition between the weekday daily Masses (Monday–Friday) at this time.

Please sign-in at the Chapel to assist our Adoration Coordinator in verifying that we will always have at least 2 people present.

Access to the Chapel. The interior doors between the church and chapel will be locked. You must use the exterior doors to enter the chapel and the exterior doors to enter the church.

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Nota Importante:
Durante el Triduo Pascual (Los Tres Días) de esta semana, no hay exposición del Santísimo Sacramento. Después de Pascua, tome una hora antes de la exposición del Santísimo Sacramento para la oración pública en nuestra capilla.

Exposición del Santísimo Sacramento—Adoración
La Adoración del Santísimo Sacramento en la Capilla está disponible en los horarios que se enumeran a continuación.

• Miércoles, 9:00 am hasta el jueves, 6:45 am;
• Jueves, 7:00 pm hasta el viernes, 6:45 am;
• Viernes, 8:00 pm hasta el sábado, 7:00 am. Tenga en cuenta que el Rosario se llevará a cabo en la capilla, el domingo por la noche, después de la misa de las 7:00 PM, desde las 8:00 PM hasta el lunes, 6:45 AM.

No tenemos exposición entre las misas diarias entre semana (de lunes a viernes) en este momento.

Por favor, regístrese en la Capilla para ayudar a nuestro Coordinador de Adoración a verificar que siempre tendremos al menos 2 personas presentes.

Acceso a la Capilla. Las puertas interiores entre la iglesia y la capilla se cerrarán con llave. Usted debe utilizar las puertas exteriores para entrar en la capilla y las puertas exteriores para entrar en la iglesia.

The Hearts Afire Special Needs Social Group meets monthly in the non-summer months at All Saints from 7:00–8:30 PM and is open to our friends with special needs, ages 18-35. If you would like to attend a fun-filled evening and meet some new friends, RSVP to heartsafiresocialgroup@gmail.com.

Hearts Afire needs volunteers!
We are looking for assistant leaders to help run the meetings and Buddies to partner with our special needs friends. If you are interested in helping out, or know someone would be, please email heartsafiresocialgroup@gmail.com.

The scheduling of Mass intentions at All Saints Parish is done through the parish office. Please note the following:

• Scheduled Masses — — If you are a parishioner and would like to have a Mass offered for someone, please come by the parish office on Wednesday – Thursday, November 20-21, from 10:00 – 11:45 AM and 1:00–2:30 PM. To expedite matters, you may come by the parish office and pick up envelopes early and then fill them out at home; in this way when you come in, you’ll be ready to go.

  We receive many requests for the limited number of Masses offered each year. In view of this fact and the size of our parish, to ensure some fairness in the procedure, we are asking that each family limit their Mass Intentions to no more than fifteen (15) scheduled Masses per year. The customary Mass stipend in the Province of Baltimore, to which the Arlington Diocese belongs, is $10.00

• Unscheduled Masses — If you wish to have other Masses offered for an individual or need, an unscheduled Mass will be offered within a short period of time by a priest of the parish or sent to a priest in a seminary, campus ministry, retreat house, or the missions.
• Purgatorial Society — Deceased family members and friends of our parish may be enrolled as a member of the Purgatorial Society of All Saints Catholic Church, and as such will be remembered in a special Mass each month for one year. Suggested Mass donation is $20.00.
• All Saints and St. Gabriel Mission — Mass intentions for Masses at All Saints Church will be taken at the All Saints parish office. Mass intentions for Masses at St. Gabriel Mission will be taken at the St. Gabriel Pastoral Center, Manassas Park.

Questions? Please contact Linda at lgaynord@allsaintsva.org or 571-516-3140.

All Saints Choirs are now actively recruiting for the fall. Lift up your voice in song and join us.  See flyer below for an overview of the many opportunities available through our Music Ministry in both English and Spanish.

Canten al Señor un cántico nuevo! Sing to the Lord a new song!

Signup Today

To signup for a choir, please click the link below or call Tim Lewicki, Director of Music & LIturgical Ministries Coordinator, at 571-516-3141 for more information.

Join an All Saints Choir Form

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All Saints Music Ministry – Overview

Congratulations! As I announced at Masses, I have great news. The parish has paid off our combined loan of approximately $7,100,000. This loan was taken out for the building of this church building and for the renovation of the old church into the Parish Activities Center (PAC). The approximate costs were (rounded to thousands).

This marks a significant moment for our parish. I am grateful to all who have sacrificed so generously so that we could have these facilities in which to worship God, learn our faith, and work together in charity.

Thanks to Fr. Bob Cilinski, former pastor, who undertook both the building of the church and the renovation of the PAC, to our parish Finance Council, to those who managed and participated in our Capital Campaigns, to all who redeemed their pledges, to the Car Raffle team and all who support the Car Raffle, to those who have supported our monthly Building Fund offertory collections, to our collection count teams, and most of all, to our parishioners, both living and deceased, who through many years, supported these efforts with prayer, time, talent, and treasure.

May God bless you abundantly!

In Christ,

Fr. Lee Roos, Pastor

Inspired by Gospel values, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic lay organization, helps women and men grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are suffering and in need.

• At All Saints, 30 volunteers help more than 750 families and individuals annually.
• Calls for assistance in Manassas and Manassas Park are growing. Please prayerfully ponder if you can devote a few hours each month to answering Christ’s call to go out into the world and help those in need.
• We especially need bilingual parishioners.

If you would like to learn more about the work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, please call our service line at 571-516-3200 and leave your name and number.

This week we again hear of the parables of Jesus: weeds among the wheat, a mustard seed, and yeast that makes the dough rise. Parables are a special type of story that are meant to make one point. Parables teach by way of paradox and give us a new insight into life. A parable is a story that draws images and metaphors (using one point of comparison) from the common life of the people.

There is usually an unexpected turn of events in a parable. At the moment of surprise, we are invited to enter into the insight of the parable. Many of the parables of Jesus are drawn from an agrarian society. Modern parables might draw on themes of transportation (e.g., The kingdom of God is like driving on I-66 when another driver lets you merge into the lane …) or commerce (The kingdom of God is like a person who cuts in line in front of everyone else waiting in line to enter Costco or Walmart ….). Think of the parable of the workers paid the same amount at the end of the day, even though they worked various hours. This wisdom teaching of a parable often has a message that we do not want to hear at first and may surprise or even shock us.

Parables allow us to pass through the gate of our own little world into solidarity with the whole human family. The shift is from “the community for me” to “me for the community.”

The parable of the weeds among the wheat is one that may not come to mind at first when we think about parables. However, it leads us to consider our own ways of thinking. For example, the common approach is to pull up all the weeds at once. When we find people doing things wrong, we may want to have them punished severely and immediately. God’s approach is to allow for repentance and conversion. By a patient approach, one is illustrating that we place trust in God, who will ultimately triumph.

The parable recognizes that in taking the freedom away from the person sinning (signified by the weeds) we may also be taking away the freedom for the person who responds justly (signified by the wheat.). Then there would be no response at all to God’s word sown among us! The mystery of God’s kingdom is offered to us. Ponder an aspect of that mystery that you find puzzling or difficult to accept.

Father Lee Roos