Save the Date for our annual Advent Concert - 12/4/2012

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An Update from the Ordinary - 10/11/2012

Where we've been and where we're going.

Ordinations and Fr. Mark's First Mass Scheduled!

Mark Lewis, along with other Washington/Baltimore area candidates, will
be ordained to the sacred order of deacons on Saturday, June 2nd at 10:00am in the Crypt Church of the Basilica in Washington, DC.

On Saturday, June 23rd at 10:00am Cardinal Wuerl will ordain our pastor as a priest in Christ's Holy Catholic Church! This wonderful event will take place at St. Matthew's Cathedral in downtown Washington, DC.

**Father Lewis will celebrate his first Mass as a Catholic priest at St. Luke's on Sunday, June 24th at 10:00am. St. Luke's is very honored to have as our guest preacher that Sunday, Msgr. Charles Pope. Msgr. Pope is pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Catholic Church, Washington and is a renowned homilist. We are very fortunate to have him with us to celebrate this historic event in the life of St. Luke's!

Pastoral Letters from Cardinal Wuerl

Concerning HHS Health Insurance mandate

Concerning HHS Health Insurance "compromise"

Ordinariate Established!

On January 1, 2012, the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter was erected. Fr. Jeffrey Steenson is named first Ordinary.

Read the official document

Ordinariate Announced:

On November 15th, 2011, during a session of the USCCB, Cardinal Wuerl announced the Holy Father has given permission for the establishment of the Ordinariate in the United States to begin on January 1, 2012, the Solemnity of the Mother of God.

Read Cardinal Wuerl's full address here.

See St. Luke's in the News:

St. Luke's Reception

- Catholic Online - 10/10/2011

- The Washington Post - 10/10/2011

- Zenit Catholic News - 10/10/2011

Announcement to Enter the Ordinariate

- WJLA News ABC Channel 7 - 06/06/2011

- Catholic News Service Video via Hawaii Catholic Herald

Click below to open document:

- Official Archdiocese of Washington Press Release

- Open Letter to the Parishioners of St. Luke's

- Statement by Fr. Mark Lewis, Rector, St. Luke's

- Q/A Concerning St. Luke's and the Ordinariate

*Information will be posted as it becomes available. Please check back periodically for more updates.

"No earthly pleasures,
no kingdoms of this world
can benefit me in any way.
I prefer death in Christ Jesus
to power over the farthest
limits of the earth.
He who died in place of us
is the one object of my quest.
He who rose for our sakes
is my one desire. Do not talk
about Jesus Christ as
long as you love this world."

-St Ignatius of Antioch