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1910 N. Randolph Street , Arlington, VA 22207 www.saintagnes.org

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Pastor : Rev. Frederick H. Edlefsen

Parochial Vicar: Rev. Richard A. Miserendino

In residence: Rev. Cedric M. Wilson, O.S.A.

In residence: Rev. Thomas Nguyen

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Saturday: 5:00pm

Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am (High Mass) , 12:00pm

Holy Days: as announced

Equipment for those who are hearing-impaired is available

from an usher upon request.

Weekday Mass

Monday – Friday: 6:30am , 9:00am (Rosary after 9am Mass) Saturday: 7:30am , 9:00am (Rosary after 9am Mass)

Monday: 7:30pm (in Spanish)

Sacrament of Penance

Saturday 8:00am—9:00am; 3:00pm– 4:00pm or by appointment

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1910 N. Randolph Street • Arlington, VA 22207-3046

Office Hours: M-F 8:00am– 4:00pm

phone: 703-525-1166 • fax: 703-243-2840

Website: www.saintagnes.org

Business Manager: Meg McKnight ([email protected])

Facilities Manager: Katie Howell ([email protected])

Development Director: Marty Lerner

([email protected])

Program Coordinator, Protection of Children:

Joan Biehler ([email protected])

Evangelization Coordinator :

Michael Sirotniak ([email protected])

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Director of Music: Laura Theby ([email protected]) Director, Saint Agnes Ensemble: Richard Lolich

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Sign up for a time slot : http://stagnes-adoration.org or contact

Michael Sirotniak at [email protected]

Sacramental Information

Infant/Child Baptism: Register for class. Held 1st Monday of

each month at 7:00pm. Plan to attend before Baptism.

Baptisms celebrated bi-weekly, after the Noon Sunday Mass

Marriage Preparation: Call parish office for Pre-Cana at least

7 months prior to wedding.

Anointing of the Sick: Call parish office to request the

Anointing of the Sick. Anyone with a serious illness should

request this sacrament before being admitted to the hospital.

Homebound Visitation: Contact [email protected]

or contact parish office.

How to become Catholic: Call the Religious Education office

or a priest for information. Rite of Christian Initiation of

Adults (RCIA) meets from September to Easter.

Holy Orders/Consecrated Life: Is the Lord calling you? For

information about priesthood, the permanent diaconate, or

the consecrated life, contact a priest or the Vocations Office

(703-841-2514).

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Registration cards are in the racks at main entrances of the

church, the parish office, or on our website. Return to an

usher. parish office, or send by email to

[email protected]

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Director (DRE): Bernadette Michael ([email protected])

Religious Education Office ([email protected])

phone: 703-527-1129

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Coordinator: Gabriel Milano ([email protected])

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phone: 703-527-5423 Fax 703-525-4689

Principal: Kristine Carr ([email protected])

Assist. Principal: Jennifer Kuzdzal([email protected])



Follow the Light of Christ By Saint Augustine

Christ is the way to the light, the truth and the life

The Lord tells us: I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the

light of life. In these few words he gives a command and makes a promise. Let us do what he commands

so that we may not blush to covet what he promises and to hear him say on the day of judgement: “I

laid down certain conditions for obtaining my promises. Have you fulfilled them?” If you say: “What

did you command, Lord our God?” he will tell you: “I commanded you to follow me. You asked for

advice on how to enter into life. What life, if not the life about which it is wri"en: With you is the

fountain of life?”

Let us do now what he commands. Let us follow in the footsteps of the Lord. Let us throw off the

chains that prevent us from following him. Who can throw off these shackles without the aid of the one

addressed in these words: You have broken my chains? Another psalm says of him: The Lord frees those in

chains, the Lord raises up the downcast.

Those who have been freed and raised up follow the light. The light they follow speaks to them: I am

the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness. The Lord gives light to the blind.

Brethren, that light shines on us now, for we have had our eyes anointed with the eye-salve of faith.

His saliva was mixed with earth to anoint the man born blind. We are of Adam’s stock, blind from our

birth; we need him to give us light. He mixed saliva with earth, and so it was prophesied: Truth has

sprung up from the earth. He himself has said: I am the way, the truth and the life.

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We shall be in possession of the truth when we see face to face. This is his promise to us. Who would

dare to hope for something that God in his goodness did not choose to promise or bestow?

We shall see face to face. The Apostle says: Now I know in part, now obscurely through a mirror, but then

face to face. John the Apostle says in one of his le"ers: Dearly beloved, we are now children of God, and it has

not yet been revealed what we shall be. We know that when he is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see

him as he is. This is a great promise.

If you love me, follow me. “I do love you”, you protest, “but how do I follow you?” If the Lord your

God said to you: “I am the truth and the life”, in your desire for truth, in your love for life, you would

certainly ask him to show you the way to reach them. You would say to yourself: “Truth is a great

reality, life is a great reality; if only it were possible for my soul to find them!”

Contemplating the Lord’s Passion

By St. Leo the Great

True reverence for the Lord's passion means fixing the eyes of our heart on Jesus crucified and

recognizing in him our own humanity.

The earth - our earthly nature - should tremble at the suffering of its Redeemer. The rock - the hearts of

unbelievers - should burst asunder. The dead, imprisoned in the tombs of their mortality, should come

forth, the massive stones now ripped apart. Foreshadowings of the future resurrection should appear

in the holy city, the Church of God: what is to happen to our bodies should now take place in our

hearts.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the

prayer of Christ. His prayer brought benefit to the multitude that raged against him. How much more

does it bring to those who turn to him in repentance.

Ignorance has been destroyed, obstinacy has been overcome. The sacred blood of Christ has quenched

the flaming sword that barred access to the tree of life. The age-old night of sin has given place to the

true light.

The Christian people are invited to share the riches of paradise. All who have been reborn have the

way open before them to return to their native land, from which they had been exiled. Unless indeed

they close off for themselves the path that could be opened before the faith of a thief.

The business of this life should not preoccupy us with its anxiety and pride, so that we no longer strive

with all the love of our heart to be like our Redeemer, and to follow his example. Everything that he

did or suffered was for our salvation: he wanted his body to share the goodness of its head.



First of all, in taking our human nature while remaining God, so that the Word became man, he left no

member of the human race, the unbeliever excepted, without a share in his mercy. Who does not share

a common nature with Christ if he has welcomed Christ, who took our nature, and is reborn in the

Spirit through whom Christ was conceived?

Again, who cannot recognize in Christ his own infirmities? Who would not recognize that Christ's

eating and sleeping, his sadness and his shedding tears of love are marks of the nature of a slave?

It was this nature of a slave that had to be healed of its ancient wounds and cleansed of the defilement

of sin. For that reason the only-bego"en Son of God became also the son of man. He was to have both

the reality of a human nature and the fullness of the godhead.

The body that lay lifeless in the tomb is ours. The body that rose again on the third day is ours. The

body that ascended above all the heights of heaven to the right hand of the Father's glory is ours. If

then we walk in the way of his commandments, and are not ashamed to acknowledge the price he paid

for our salvation in a lowly body, we too are to rise to share his glory. The promise he made will be

fulfilled in the sight of all: Whoever acknowledges me before men, I too will acknowledge him before my Father

who is in heaven.



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6:30 &* John Conboy U (Hofer Family)

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9:00 &* George Kelley U (Ueland Family)

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9:00 &* Nathan Berry U (Macnamara Family)

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PARISH LIFE

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Last weekend, we welcomed three new

members into the Catholic Church:

Vera Juliana Booksing, daughter of Carl

& Cristina Booksing

Liam Silva, son of Julio & Thais Silva

Catherine Farrell Woodley, daughter of Kevin and Lauren

Woodley

Sunday Readings:

4th Sunday in Lent

1 Sm 16:1B, 6-7, 10-13A• Ps 23•

Eph 5:8-14

Jn: 9:1-41

LITURGY

Please bring non-perishable food items such as canned

goods, beans, and pasta to the entrances of the church each

week during Lent through April 5th. Our St. Agnes Girl

Scouts collect and transport the food to pantries in

Madison and Culpeper counties, providing a lifeline to

many needy families.

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For Christ’s healing, we pray for: Bernardo

Labrador, Doris Hurley, Karen Akerson,

Eileen Hayase, Rafael Romero, Eva

Hegerova, Dexter Hamasaki, Sam Jennings,

Malinda Galvan, Michael Lane, Edmundo

Fujita, Teresa Esteves, Luke Kilver, Jason Liljenquist, Ercilia

Zarceño, April Garcia, Will Warren, Maria Martins, Dorothy

Hannon, Julie Cowan, Gerardo Stratthaus, Madeleine Conte,

Marielle Winteler, Tom Grantham, Hugh Montgomery, Maureen

Simpson, Nora Solloa, Katie Howell, Michael Walsh, Salvador

Moran, Antonio Zarceño, Darlene Gulius, Olivia Egge, and John

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PARISH LIFE Cont...

Easter Flower Memorials

The Easter Flower Fund is in honor of the living or deceased loved ones. To make a memorial, please complete the form below and place in an envelope marked Easter Memorial, and return it back to the parish office or in the following week’s collection basket. Names must be received no later than April 2nd, in order to be included in the April 16th bulletin.

In honor of _______________________________________

Requested by _______________________________________

Donation _______________________________________

Theosis: Understanding Christian

Divinization

Rev. Andrew Hofer, O.P., Ph.D.

Sunday, March 26 @ 6:00 p.m. ET

Dinner included; lecture to begin @ 7:00

p.m. No RSVP required.

St. Agnes Church Hall, 1910 North Randolph Street,

Arlington, VA 22207

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The Diocese of Arlington is dedicated to managing the

temporal and human resources of the Church as faithful

stewards. To aid in this effort, the diocese has contracted

with an independent service provider, EthicsPoint, so that

employees, volunteers, parishioners, vendors and other

interested parties can report concerns regarding suspected

financial and human resource misconduct. Reports are kept

confidential and may be made anonymously, and can be

filed via one of EthicsPoint’s trained specialists at 1-888-293

-3718.

PARISH STEWARDSHIP

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Offering hands to serve and hearts to love

YOUNG ADULT & YOUTH MINISTRY

The Bishop’s Lenten Appeal is in full swing and we are

asking every household in our parish to support this

appeal to the extent that they are able. The BLA funds

many programs, services and ministries that serve people

in need and further Jesus’ Mission in our diocese. Let us

join together to do the Lord’s work – works that touch the

lives and souls of thousands of people in our diocese.

Thank you!

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Sunday collection (in pew & via mail) $ 21,027

Faith Direct (electronic collection) $ 8,947

Total Offertory for Week $ 29,974

Poor Box $ 252

Offertory Budget (FY16-17) $ 1,645,000

Offertory Budget (through 3/19/17) $ 1,187,788

Offertory Actual (through 3/19/17) $ 1,218,177

The Friar Servants of Mary (“Servites”) began in the early

1200s in Italy, when seven prosperous men of Florence

retreated to a nearby mountain, giving up their worldly

goods, to devote themselves to penance in the name of

Mary, the Mother of God. Over the years, they were joined

by others and became a community that was recognized by

the Bishop of Florence in about 1240 and by the Pope in

“Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance

but the Lord looks into the heart.” 1Samuel 16:7

How often do we invest our time, talent and treasure in

creating an appearance that does not ma"er at all to God?

We strive to impress with our clothing, home, career, pos-

sessions, car and other marks of distinction. But none of

these illusions of greatness will impress God. Instead, He

will look into our hearts to see how much we loved Him,

how much we loved others and how we showed that love

by the way we used our time, talents and treasure here on

earth.

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The order’s mission to Africa did not begin until 1938, in

the ecclesiastical Vicariate of Swaziland under the auspices

of the Tuscan Province. After the war, three American

Servites joined the African mission, and, over the last 80

years, the American Servites have expanded their mission

throughout the northeast corner of the Republic of South

Africa where it borders Swaziland and Mozambique.

Today, the Servites operate such well known missions as

of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows, of the Star of the

Sea High School, and of the St. Alexis Mission.

This week, Brother Dennis and Associates are donating

$1800 to the American Servites for their support of the

African missions.

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The St. Agnes Ensemble

is open to adults and

high school students who

would like to lift their

voices in praise to God. It

is not necessary to have a

musical background to

sing in our choir. No

auditions are required. The Ensemble leads sung prayer

during 9:00 a.m. Sunday Mass and select Holy Days. We

also welcome all musical instruments to complement our

singers. In addition, volunteer cantors are always welcome

and will be trained by the music director. Everyone is

welcome.

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ST. AGNES SCHOOL

Saint Agnes school is accepting registration forms for the

2017-2018 school year. If you, or someone you know is

interested in enrolling their children at St. Agnes next

school year, please contact the school office.

MUSIC MINISTRY

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A sincere thank you to our Auction Chairs, and to the many

volunteers who made this year's "Gatsby Gala" auction a

smashing success.

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Parents and student's enjoyed the Pre-K - 3rd grade spring

musical program, "Swamped: The Musical". Thank you to

our music teacher, Judy Smith who worked so hard to

make this performance special.

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The service project of the month is participation in Catholic

Relief Services' Operation Rice Bowl. Rice bowls will be

collected during Holy Week and the class that brings in

the most Rice Bowls will earn a dress-out-of-uniform day.

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