Dear Parishioners, Our Hands of Christ team is calling parishioners to see how everyone is doing. If you have any needs in the meantime, including emotional, spiritual or material needs, please call the office and follow the prompts. Pressing “0” allows you to record a message for our Hands of Christ team, and one of them will call you very …
Pastor’s Update
Dear Parishioners, Thank you for your patience and your support during this exceptionally challenging time. We need to make the best of the situation, even while acknowledging how difficult it is. It’s hard to stay calm when there are so many uncertainties. Please remember that you can reach a priest’s cell phone by following the prompts on the office answering …
Our Parish Schedule
Office hours: Phones answered 9 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday. Priest hours: Priests available by phone, as usual. During office hours, ask to be transferred to a priest. After office hours, follow answering system prompts to be transferred to a priest’s cell phone. Church hours: 7 am to 7 pm, seven days a week. The Most Blessed Sacrament …
We’re Here for You!
Dear St. Mary’s Parishioners, St. Mary Parish remains open and will strive to provide for those who may require aid as a result of the local, state, and national response to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Our homebound parishioners, those in our community who are vulnerable due to age or health issues, and those who will otherwise be affected …
March 21st Farmers’ Market
The Winter Farmers’ Market is open Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m, (or until the farmers sell out!) through March 28. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we will be outside in the parking lot of the school. These procedures have been communicated to the Anderson County Health Department. We will SPREAD OUT in the parking lot, keeping our social distance. …
Pastor’s Message about Eucharistic Adoration [updated 3/18]
Dear Parishioners, Please allow me to share with you our approach to Eucharistic adoration for the remainder of this month. Solemn Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament will conclude on Thursday evening following the 6 PM EF Mass. (The usual 6 PM Extraordinary Form Mass on Thursday will be the last public Mass at St. Mary’s for the remainder of the month.) …
Public Masses Suspended
Effective Friday, March 20th, the public celebration of Masses in the Diocese of Knoxville will cease until concerns over the spread of the coronavirus subside. Bishop Stika has requested that all small adoration chapels in the diocese be closed. All churches remain open for daily adoration, allowing people to spread out. “I do this with great regret but with prudence …
Our Eucharistic Lord Travels through Oak Ridge
Pastoral visitation in nursing homes and hospitals is highly restricted now. So, starting today our clergy are traveling around town with the Most Blessed Sacrament, imparting a Eucharistic Blessing from the parking lots. Many other parishioners are unable to come to Mass or even visit the church at this time, but it’s a comfort to know that the very substance …
Messages from Bishop Stika
On March 13th, Bishop Stika issued the following procedural mandates for Masses in the diocese: The faithful’s obligation to attend Sunday Mass is dispensed if they have an illness or because they are older adults who have serious chronic medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease; are individuals with severely compromised immune systems; and caretakers of anyone at risk. …
SMS Students Learn to Teach the Lives of the Saints
Take a look at these informative projects by our students:
Preparation Status Update
Given growing concerns about the risks of viral infection, our parish is making the following preparations: Our Society of Saint Vincent de Paul conference is meeting today to determine how best to continue food distribution in the event of a local outbreak. Our White Elephant Thrift Store will comply with any relevant directives from local health authorities, if these are …
Arbor Day 2020
Many thanks to Cathy Lowden, Marsha Sega, Bill Hevrdeys, Lawrence O’Rourke and Tod Butz for planting eleven new trees along our walking trail for Tennessee Arbor Day 2020. Take a look!
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