*If you're unable to print a ticket or pull it up on your phone, please email Tori at vwesley@stelizabethchurchmd.org to put your name in or call the parish office 301.881.1380 from 9 am to noon Wednesday-Friday.

For more information about reopening procedures, see the following videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf49ji7WGyE Part 1

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmmZx1OrfyU Part 2

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rb1CtLOQe4 Part 3 (Communion)

For 5 Tuesday Holy Hours at 7:30 p.m. this Lent we will pick up where we left off in 2019 when as a parish we called on our Church leaders for Three Simple Things: Truth, Accountability and Transparency. As has become increasingly clear over the past year, the problems of our Church leaders are shared by our nation’s secular leaders.

Each Holy Hour talk will explore how we as Christians ought to demand greater truth, accountability and transparency from leaders in our Church and nation. Our focus will be personal and spiritual because such leadership reforms in our institutions begin with interior reforms in ourselves.

The first Holy Hour talk will pick up where we left off with Three Simple Things by examining the McCarrick Report issued last November. Each Holy Hour will include Eucharistic Adoration and a reflection from one of our parish clergy as follows:

• February 23: Msgr. Bill Parent

• March 2: Fr. Stefan Megyery

• March 9: Deacon Mark Asselin

• March 16: Fr. Stefan Megyery

• March 23: Msgr. Bill Parent

This Lent, members of St. Elizabeth Sodality are participating in a 33-day, self-directed retreat for consecration to St. Joseph, and all members of the parish are invited to participate as well. On December 8, 2020, Pope Francis released an Apostolic Letter in which he recalled the 150th anniversary of the declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. To mark the occasion, the Holy Father has proclaimed a "Year of Saint Joseph" from December 8, 2020 to December 8, 2021. As Pope Francis wrote, "[t]he aim of this Apostolic Letter is to increase our love for this great saint, to encourage us to implore his intercession and to imitate his virtues and his zeal." St. E's Sodality will be using the book Consecration To St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father by Fr. Donald H. Calloway. The first day of the retreat is Monday, February 15th, and will conclude on March 19th -- St. Joseph's Feast Day. Each day of the self-directed retreat contains approximately 20 minutes of reading. We will also meet as a group once a week via Zoom for about an hour and will hold a consecration ceremony on the last day, Friday, March 19th. Fr. Calloway's book, Consecration To St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, is available for order at http://www.consecrationtostjoseph.org and from Barnes and Noble. The ebook is also available from Amazon.