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
July 13, 2025
Dear Parishioners,
Today (July 13th ) we begin our annual Marian Consecration preparation. You can use either Fr. Michael Gaitley’s book: 33 Days to Morning Glory, or St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary (just be sure to get a version with the consecration preparation included in the book). Then, following each of the Masses on August 15th , which is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (and the anniversary of our parish founding), those who have prepared will make the consecration to Mary. If you have made the consecration in the past, I encourage you to renew it every year. Countless saints throughout our Church’s history have encouraged the faithful to turn to Mary in their every need, and solemnly consecrating oneself to her is “the surest, easiest, shortest, and the most perfect means” to becoming a saint (St. Louis de Montfort).
I also hope many of you are praying the Litany of the Precious Blood, as I suggested in last Sunday’s bulletin. My encouragement is to pray it every day this month (July is the month dedicated to the Precious Blood) in reparation for sin, for protection from evil, and/or for the Poor Souls in Purgatory. Copies of this litany are easily found online, and we have hard copies on the table by the baptismal font in the back of church.
Many thanks to all our volunteers who helped with our Summer Catechesis program this past week. I’m especially grateful to our Faith Formation Director, Virginia Blatchford, her assistant Mary Bruck, and our seminarians for all their efforts this past week.
I hope everyone is having a peaceful and happy summer!
In the Precious Blood of Jesus,
Fr. Reid
Today (July 13th ) we begin our annual Marian Consecration preparation. You can use either Fr. Michael Gaitley’s book: 33 Days to Morning Glory, or St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary (just be sure to get a version with the consecration preparation included in the book). Then, following each of the Masses on August 15th , which is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (and the anniversary of our parish founding), those who have prepared will make the consecration to Mary. If you have made the consecration in the past, I encourage you to renew it every year. Countless saints throughout our Church’s history have encouraged the faithful to turn to Mary in their every need, and solemnly consecrating oneself to her is “the surest, easiest, shortest, and the most perfect means” to becoming a saint (St. Louis de Montfort).
I also hope many of you are praying the Litany of the Precious Blood, as I suggested in last Sunday’s bulletin. My encouragement is to pray it every day this month (July is the month dedicated to the Precious Blood) in reparation for sin, for protection from evil, and/or for the Poor Souls in Purgatory. Copies of this litany are easily found online, and we have hard copies on the table by the baptismal font in the back of church.
Many thanks to all our volunteers who helped with our Summer Catechesis program this past week. I’m especially grateful to our Faith Formation Director, Virginia Blatchford, her assistant Mary Bruck, and our seminarians for all their efforts this past week.
I hope everyone is having a peaceful and happy summer!
In the Precious Blood of Jesus,
Fr. Reid