Bulletins

October 14, 2018

On Sunday, October 21 in the year 1956 Bishop Peter L. Ireton, the sixth Bishop of Richmond made a pastoral visit to the parish of St. John in McLean to dedicate the brand new church that still is our house of worship. In the same year, he was given the noble title of Assistant at the Pontifical Throne. What would have been on his mind at the time of his visit, however, is that he shared his birthday, September 21, with the anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of St. John Mission Church, which now houses our parish offices and the Thrift Shop, even though his birth occurred twenty-one years prior to the birth of our original church.

Incidentally, this past week we saw the completion of the waterproofing of the western foundation of what we now call Carlin Hall in honor of the Carlin Family who donated half an acre of their land to help establish St. John Mission.

Our parish's mission continues... to draw souls into communion with the Holy Trinity through the ancient and life-giving Christian faith. Just as the Church would be a mere shell without the Holy Eucharist, so our faith would be dead if it did not bear fruit in many corporal and spiritual works. Our work will never be finished.

Please visit the parish hall after Mass to toast our happy anniversary and to accept the invitation to engage in some of our many apostolic endeavors. If you have an idea and the willingness to help it come to fruition please suggest how additionally we should dedicate our efforts.

God bless you.

Fr. Christopher J. Pollard

p.s. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb 13,8). Amen? Amen!

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