PASTOR'S CORNER
Welcome to St. Ann’s Parish Website!
I invite you to explore our website as a means of getting to know St. Ann’s and all that we do to serve Christ and one another. While we are well known in Charlotte for having a beautiful church and beautiful liturgy, what’s most beautiful about our parish is our parishioners! We are a family-oriented, thriving parish just south of Uptown Charlotte, filled with people committed to worshiping God through the fullness of our Catholic tradition and serving the poor and needy with charity and compassion. Come join us for Mass and help us as we seek to glorify God, bear witness to His Truth, and show forth His Love.
Father Timothy S. Reid
HOMILIES
WEEKLY LETTER
October 26, 2025
Dear Parishioners,
The Carnival is just one week away! I hope you’re looking forward to it as much as I am. It’s always a great day for us – a homecoming of sorts – that allows us to reconnect with one another. So please make plans to attend. As you all know, this is our biggest fund-raiser of the year, and our parish relies on the funds we raise to supplement our general operating budget. Thank you in advance for your patronage!
All important information for our Carnival is on our webpage, which can be found at: https://www.stanncharlotte.org/carnival/ There you’ll find info about all of the elements of our Carnival. You can pre-purchase tickets for the games and rides, as well as raffle tickets (you don’t even have to be present at the Carnival to win the raffle). You can also see the items in our Silent Auction. As always, we’re still in need of volunteers and sponsors for our games and rides. You can sign up on-line to volunteer or to donate to the Carnival by going to the Carnival webpage link above. If you’d like to be a sponsor, please contact Eric Kashmanian at: [email protected].
Keep in mind that Saturday, 01 November 2025, is the Solemnity of All Saints, but this year it is not a holy day of obligation. We will have a Mass that day at 9 a.m. As is our custom, we will be exposing relics of various saints on the main altar of the church all day, beginning after the 9 a.m. Mass until just before the 4:30 p.m. Mass. Praying before the relics of saints helps us draw closer in friendship to the saints, and it spurs them to intercede for us. So please come and venerate the various saints whose relics we have here at St. Ann’s.
As usual, we will be offering a Novena of Masses for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. If you would like to have your deceased loved ones remembered in a special way, please use the All Souls envelopes and write the names of your loved ones on the envelope. You may turn in your envelopes at any time during the month of November. Those listed on the envelopes will be remembered in a special Litany of the Dead that we will offer after every daily Mass during November. The Book of the Dead will also be available in the narthex for you to list the names of your beloved deceased for whom you desire prayers. If you make your donation online, be sure to put your All Souls envelope in the collection with the names of your deceased loved ones, or send us an email with those names.
Trusting in all the Saints,
Fr. Reid
The Carnival is just one week away! I hope you’re looking forward to it as much as I am. It’s always a great day for us – a homecoming of sorts – that allows us to reconnect with one another. So please make plans to attend. As you all know, this is our biggest fund-raiser of the year, and our parish relies on the funds we raise to supplement our general operating budget. Thank you in advance for your patronage!
All important information for our Carnival is on our webpage, which can be found at: https://www.stanncharlotte.org/carnival/ There you’ll find info about all of the elements of our Carnival. You can pre-purchase tickets for the games and rides, as well as raffle tickets (you don’t even have to be present at the Carnival to win the raffle). You can also see the items in our Silent Auction. As always, we’re still in need of volunteers and sponsors for our games and rides. You can sign up on-line to volunteer or to donate to the Carnival by going to the Carnival webpage link above. If you’d like to be a sponsor, please contact Eric Kashmanian at: [email protected].
Keep in mind that Saturday, 01 November 2025, is the Solemnity of All Saints, but this year it is not a holy day of obligation. We will have a Mass that day at 9 a.m. As is our custom, we will be exposing relics of various saints on the main altar of the church all day, beginning after the 9 a.m. Mass until just before the 4:30 p.m. Mass. Praying before the relics of saints helps us draw closer in friendship to the saints, and it spurs them to intercede for us. So please come and venerate the various saints whose relics we have here at St. Ann’s.
As usual, we will be offering a Novena of Masses for all the Poor Souls in Purgatory. If you would like to have your deceased loved ones remembered in a special way, please use the All Souls envelopes and write the names of your loved ones on the envelope. You may turn in your envelopes at any time during the month of November. Those listed on the envelopes will be remembered in a special Litany of the Dead that we will offer after every daily Mass during November. The Book of the Dead will also be available in the narthex for you to list the names of your beloved deceased for whom you desire prayers. If you make your donation online, be sure to put your All Souls envelope in the collection with the names of your deceased loved ones, or send us an email with those names.
Trusting in all the Saints,
Fr. Reid