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Avent Day of Recollection with Carmelites

December 6, 2025

Advent Day Retreat to Honor Our Blessed Mother led by Carmelite Friar Father Salvatore OCD at an Official 2025 Jubilee Year Pilgrimage Site with opportunity to enroll in the Brown Scapular Confraternity. Saturday December 6 at Basilica of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg. Come, bring your friends. Bring your Brown Scapular and be Enrolled by […]

Deck the Halls

Abby Taylor

December 6, 2025

Join us for a community filled, family friendly event as we “Deck the Halls” with hopeful anticipation of the birth of Jesus! We will have local craft vendors, breakfast with Santa, train garden, raffle baskets, silent auction items, St. Nick’s Shoppe, cookie/cake walk, music and more.

St. John Christmas Bazaar

Abby Taylor

December 6, 2025

Christmas Bazaar includes 18 rooms of books, videos, linens, specialty room, Fudge, baked goods, north pole candy, religious, Gift baskets, plants and posies, silent auction room for kids to shop, big Barn building with household items, lunch by Hispanic group and Big Dawg BBQ, Nutcracker ballet performance at 11:30, gingerbread house making and so much […]

First Friday Holy Hour at the Baltimore Basilica

Abby Taylor

December 6, 2025

First Friday Holy Hour at the Baltimore Basilica Join us at the Baltimore Basilica for our monthly First Friday Holy Hour from 7:00–8:00 PM. The evening includes Solemn Vespers and the opportunity for Confession, offering a time of prayer, reflection, and renewal in the beauty of America’s First Cathedral. All are warmly invited to participate.

Sacred Heart Glyndon Christmas Festival

Abby Taylor

December 5, 2025

Sacred Heart Glyndon’s Christmas Festival provides a weekend of events! Friday, December 5 includes both a Christmas Tree Lighting followed by a Christmas Concert in the Main Church, featuring the Sacred Heart School Choir and Band. Saturday, December 6 begins the Christmas Bazaar in the School Gym featuring vendors for crafts, bake tables, Christmas flower […]

A Living Nativity

Abby Taylor

December 5, 2025

A Living Nativity Friday, December 5, 2025 6:30 PM St. Joseph’s Monastery Church 3801 Old Frederick Road, Baltimore, MD 21229 Join us for a beautiful recreation of the first Christmas. You will witness a live display in the sanctuary of the Monastery. No walking around required (most of the event takes place inside). Petting zoo […]

Waiting in Joyful Hope: An Advent Retreat

Abby Taylor

December 5, 2025

The Advent season invites us to put the world’s ways aside and sink into the slow goodness of a spiritual season be-decked — not in tinsel and bows, but in waiting and anticipation, in faint flickering lights against an inky winter sky, and the Light that we know will break open our world and overcome […]

Catholic Charities Christmas Festival

Delia Lynch

December 4, 2025

Catholic Charities Christmas Festival The Catholic Charities Christmas Festival will be held on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 409 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. The festival features performances by the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and the […]

Friends Day of Prayer with Fr. Rick Malloy

Abby Taylor

December 3, 2025

How Do We Live Catholic Social Teaching…In Order to Save Bedford Falls from Becoming Pottersville? The classic American Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful Life, will serve as a parable on which we will reflect this day. From what does Jesus save us? How does Advent call us to transform our world to welcome Emmanuel? We […]

Archbishop William E. Lori

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 1st Sunday of Advent 2025

Archbishop William E. Lori

December 2, 2025

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

On the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new liturgical year, the Church offers us a vision of life in Christ that frees us to embrace the future – not merely the near future, but the absolute future, that future we were created for and that we long for.

Archbishop William E. Lori

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Installation of Fr. Jason Worley

Archbishop William E. Lori

December 2, 2025

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

Indeed, the beginning of a new year of grace sheds light on the most essential role of your pastor and of every pastor, namely, to lead the people he serves to share every more deeply in all that the Lord taught and did to bring about our salvation: the mysteries of his Incarnation, his life and teaching, and above all, his Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

Archbishop William E. Lori

Archbishop Lori’s Advent Message – 2025

Archbishop William E. Lori

November 30, 2025

Advent, From the Archbishop

During this new liturgical year, let us resolve that as individuals and as a Church community that we will share more deeply in Christ’s love for us, that we will grow in the likeness of Christ, and that we will be the Lord’s witnesses and missionaries in the world.

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