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Forming a Family of Disciples United in Jesus Christ
WEEKEND MASS
SATURDAY
4:30 PM
SUNDAY
7:30 AM Mass
10:00 AM Mass
12:30 PM Latin Novus Ordo Mass
DAILY MASS
MONDAY - SATURDAY
8:00 AM
CONFESSION
WEDNESDAY
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Not on 3rd Wednesdays
SATURDAY
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
SUNDAY
7:00 AM - 7:20 AM
ADORATION
every WEDNESDAY following 8:00 AM Mass
Holy Hour for Life - 1st Wednesdays at 4:45 PM
Saturday Adoration with Morning Prayer is also available each week, from 6:45 AM - 7:45 AM.
Fall Parish Clean Up Day
Our next Parish Clean Up Day will focus on mulching, planting perennials and trimming shrubs & bushes. Join us after 8:00am Mass this Saturday, October 10th. We will close the Clean-Up Day by sharing some treats from the grill, around 1:00pm. Please bring tools for mulching, planting, and trimming. This is also a great way for teens to earn service hours for school. Be sure to bring your school's official forms with you and have Father or Owen sign them.
Every generation of St. Agnes parishioners has strengthened this sacred place through faith and generosity.
Now it is our turn. Your support ensures that future generations will encounter Christ here,
share in the sacraments here, and one day say with gratitude and faith.
It Is Good That We Are Here!
During Masses this weekend, Fr. Hamilton will present more information on this initiative.
Heavenly Father,
We thank You for the gift of St. Agnes Parish
and for many years of faith, community and discipleship.
As we prepare to celebrate our 175 anniversary
and look to the future,
fill our hearts with wisdom,
gratitude & a spirit of generosity.
Bless our efforts to create welcoming,
accessible spaces that support worship, service and faith.
Renew in us a spirit of stewardship and mission,
that we may build faithfully
upon the foundation laid by those before us
and provide for the future of our parish community.
May all we do give glory to You.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen
Respect Life Month
As Catholics, we are called to cherish, defend, and protect those who are most vulnerable, from conception to natural death. During the month of October, we are all called to reflect more deeply on the dignity and gift of every human life. Our U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops provides resources to help us all make the most of this special month.
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Baby Bottle Campaign
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Annually, our parish participates in the Women's Center West - Baby Bottle Campaign, raising funds for our local outreach center for women in crisis. Throughout October, empty bottles will be available by the church doors, to be filled with donations toward their fundraiser.
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Filled bottles can be returned to the bins in church over the weekend of October 31/November 1. If you wish to return a bottle prior to that weekend, please drop it off in the parish office.
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All checks should be written out directly to Women's Center West.
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You can also donate to them directly through their website: Women's Center West Donations
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Annual Eucharistic Procession
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Saturday October 17, 2026 (Details listed below)
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8:00am Mass for the Gift of Life
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8:35am Eucharistic Procession
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Closing Reception in the Emmaus Room
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Respect Life Month Novena
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October 22-30, 2026
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This novena, promoted through the USCCB, prays for the protection of human life, from conception to natural death. Each day of the novena features a different pro-life prayer intention which is accompanied by a short reflection and suggested actions to help build a culture of life.
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Click here for more information including a link to the digital version of the Respect Life Novena
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For information on St. Agnes Parish's Respect Life efforts, please visit our Respect Life Ministry Webpage.
“The witness of our Blessed Mother [in the Gospel account of her visit to her pregnant cousin, Elizabeth,] invites us to become more aware of the needs of pregnant and parenting moms in our own parishes and communities. …Mary’s witness is an invitation to step out in love and compassion. It is a summons to make haste to help vulnerable women who may be isolated and alone.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
Respect Life Reflection: Called to Serve Moms in Need - respectlife.org/called-to-serve-reflection
Annual Eucharistic Procession
Saturday October 17, 2026
8:00am Mass for the Gift of Life
8:35am Eucharistic Procession
Closing Reception in the Emmaus Room
After 8:00am Saturday Mass offered for the Gift of Life, join others from our parish family and neighboring Catonsville community to process with the Blessed Sacrament along Route 40, from St. Agnes to the Potomac Family Planning Center (aka Hillcrest) abortion facility and back. If you have any questions, please contact 40 Days for Life Catonsville Campaign Leader - Kim Frazer, at 410-456-9544 or vigilbaltimore@gmail.com.
Registration is still OPEN for all of our Religious Education Programs. Please register before October 18th!
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October 7th – May 5th, in the Old School’s Atrium Classroom, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, from 6:30 – 8:00pm, St. Agnes offers Religious Education for ages 3-6, through Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS), a Montessori-based, hands-on approach to learning.
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October 21st - May 19th, on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, children ages 7-10 participate in Elementary School Faith Formation, 6:30 – 7:30pm, in the Old School. Those preparing for any Sacrament must be enrolled in our class, Catholic School, or a Home School Program, the year of preparation and the year prior.
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Starting October 7th, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, at 6:30pm, in the Old School Parish Center, teens in Middle and High School will meet for Middle School Life Teen. High Schoolers will serve as peers, helping to lead our Middle Schoolers, as part of their own formation, while gaining much-needed service hours for school. Our hope is that our active Middle School Life Teen Group will develop and grow into their own High School Life Teen group in the future, while continuing to serve as peers for the Middle Schoolers. Life Teen High School Peer Ministry Leaders are asked to contact Meghan for more information on how you can serve in this ministry. There is no registration fee again this year.
Pray for Priests!
Baltimore Convocation ~ October 19-22, 2026
Every other year, the Archbishop calls the priests of our Archdiocese together for several days of prayer, reflection, and fraternity. This year, we will gather around the theme “The Spiritual Fatherhood of the Priest.” While we are away, I would like to invite you to accompany us through your prayers. A group of the faithful has organized a special prayer effort for the priests of the Archdiocese, during those days. Please consider joining them and offering some time in prayer for all of the priests serving the people of St. Agnes and for all priests gathered at Convocation. Pray a Rosary, spend time in Adoration, offer the Divine Mercy Chaplet (we pray together after 10:00am Mass each third Sunday of the month), gather with others for prayer with this intention, or simply speak to the Lord from your heart on behalf of our priests.
Our Archdiocese is experiencing the blessing of increased vocations to the priesthood, including our current 66 seminarians, and we thank the Lord for calling new men to serve His Church. Let us also pray for those already ordained - that God will renew our joy, deepen our holiness, strengthen our health, and make us ever more faithful and fruitful ministers of the Gospel.
Priests are called to pray for the people entrusted to our care. During these few days, I invite you to return that gift by praying in a particular way for all of our priests.
In Christ,
Fr. Hamilton
Every Wednesday, our St. Agnes Church Faith Community shares a mid-week full-day opportunity to relax in prayer and spiritual enrichment. Please join us for all or part of these Wednesday events. Registration for Children's Sacramental Prep and Religious Education programs, including our First Reconciliation and First Holy Eucharist Sunday Morning Preparation Sessions, can be found on our FORMATION page.
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7:30am Morning Prayer
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8:00am Daily Mass followed by Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena Prayers and the Rosary
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Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament for Weekly Adoration
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5:30pm Evening Prayer, 5:45pm Benediction & Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
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All but 3rd Wednesdays
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6-7:00pm Sacrament of Reconciliation & Hour of Silent Private Prayer in church
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1st Wednesdays
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4:45pm Holy Hour for LIFE
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6:30-8:00pm Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (October 7th - May 5th)
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6:30pm Middle School Life Teen with High School Peers (beginning October 7th)
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2nd Wednesdays
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6:30-7:45pm Confirmation Prep Sessions
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3rd Wednesdays
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6:00pm Hour of Glory with Fr. Hamilton, in church
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6:30-7:30pm Elementary School Faith Formation (October 21st - May 19th)
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6:30-8:00pm Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (October 7th - May 5th)
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6:30pm Middle School Life Teen with High School Peers (beginning October 7th)
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4th Wednesdays
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6:30-7:45pm Confirmation Prep Sessions
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CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?
Know that we are here for you! If you or a family member is sick and in need of prayers, please call the parish office. Let us know if we can also add their name to the bulletin prayer list so your whole parish family can hold them in prayer.
Prayer for Pope Leo XIV
V. Let us pray for Leo XIV, our Pope.
R. May the Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the
earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
Our Father. Hail Mary.
O God, Shepherd and Ruler of all the faithful, look favorably on Your servant Leo XIV, whom You have set at the head of Your Church as her shepherd; grant, we pray, that by word and example he may be of service to those over whom he presides so that, together with the flock entrusted to his care, he may come to everlasting life.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Pope Leo XIV's Monthly Intention
October 2026 - For mental health ministry: Let us pray that the mental health ministry be established throughout the Church, helping to overcome the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses.
Jubilee Year of St. Francis, January 10, 2026 through January 10, 2027
Pope Leo XIV proclaimed a special Jubilee Year commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. Rediscover St. Francis' way of life: simple and essential, open to peace, fraternity, and respect for creation.
The conditions required for a plenary indulgence during this Year of St. Francis include going to confession, receiving the Eucharistic, praying for the intentions of the Pope, interior detachment from sin, pilgrimage to a Franciscan church to participate in celebrations, prayer and meditation in the Franciscan spirit, as well as daily acts of charity and humility that express the spirituality of St. Francis.
Letter from the Holy Father to the Franciscan Ministers' General
Pope Leo's Jubilee Prayer
Saint Francis, our brother, you who eight hundred years ago
went to meet Sister Death as a man at peace,
intercede for us before the Lord.
You recognized true peace in the Crucifix of San Damiano,
teach us to seek in Him the source of all reconciliation
that breaks down every wall.
You who, unarmed, crossed the lines of war
and misunderstanding,
give us the courage to build bridges
where the world raises up boundaries.
In this time afflicted by conflict and division,
intercede for us so that we may become peacemakers:
unarmed and disarming witnesses of the peace that comes from Christ. Amen
ALL ARE WELCOME
We are happy you've decided to check out the virtual home.
We hope you will come to visit our parish family in person!
ST. AGNES
St. Agnes Church & Parish Office
5422 Old Frederick Road
Baltimore, MD 21229
410-744-2900
