Happy Anniversary!   St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following day (the First Sunday of Lent that […]

Happy Anniversary! St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following […]

The great ‘blizzard of 2016,’ which paralyzed the Washington DC area for days, also had its impact on St. Gregory’s parish. This was to have been our visitation weekend from Bishop JOHN, but after attending the March for Life, Sayedna took the last train out of Washington to get home to Massachusetts and avoid being […]

As our beloved brother Subdeacon Jerome prepared to depart this life, so many of you visited him in the hospital, talked with him on the phone, and prayed for him. He certainly knew that he was loved and that was a great comfort to him in his last days. His funeral Mass will be at […]

Thanks to all who have helped and who will continue to help with moving things to our new property. This is a daunting task and we have certainly appreciated the use of Doug and Linda’s truck! Sunday, December 6, will be the biggest moving day, with the need for every remaining thing to be removed […]

Thanks to all who have participated in the work days at our new property, clearing leaves and dead tree branches and other yard work. The month of November brings a wonderful collection of feast days in the liturgical year, beginning with All Saints Day on Sunday, November 1. At the end of Mass that day, […]

We will celebrate two major feast days in October: We observe The feast day of St. Luke, one of the four Evangelists, a physician, an iconographer, and a missionary on October 18, which falls on a Sunday this year. The Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday in October reminds us that Christ […]

A New Home for St. Gregory’s! As we near the 20th anniversary of the founding of our parish (on March 3, 1996), St. Gregory’s is embarking on a new chapter in our parish life. We are purchasing a 2.11-acre parcel of land at 13407 Roxbury Road in Silver Spring, Maryland for our new home. There […]

Parish News Thanks to the many who helped with the Parish work day in June. We accomplished much-needed tasks around the building, including cleaning, painting, tree trimming and other gardening work, brass polishing, wax removal – and many others. We should do this more often! Two of our church conferences occur in the month of […]

A parish work day has been scheduled for Saturday, June 6, to clean and make much-needed repairs around our building. Please come and lend a hand. Congratulations to Benjamin Green, who has just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Well done, Ben! We bid farewell to the Borthwick family, as they move to […]