This couple met as students at St. Ann’s Academy, where they attended up to eighth grade. Lauren and Blake later decided to marry. Last weekend, they returned to St. Ann on a nostalgia tour, and to show their five kids where they met. They currently live in Bowie, Maryland. Blake said that he was very moved by the Mass and the feeling of being back home. Have a story to share? Email us! news@stanndc.org

Click here to view the stunning repertoire of musical selections we will have at St. Ann during Lent and Holy Week!

Update: Click for the Program! Please join us for a benefit concert for the AGMA Relief Fund: With your support, we can help artists facing dire times of hardship. Program highlights: An All-American program including choral works by Copeland, Niles, and Hogan, the world premiere of “My True Love Hath My Heart” by Zachary Wadsworth, and operatic favorites featuring solos and choruses from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess! Free admission, but donations to the AGMA Relief Fund are encouraged. You may be helping an artist in need sitting right next to you. Thank you!

The Kosciuszko Foundation’s Chopin Piano Competition was established in 1949, in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Frédéric Chopin. The inauguration took place at the Kosciuszko Foundation House in New York City, with Witold Malcuzynski as a guest artist, and Abram Chasins, composer and music director of the New York Times Radio Station, presiding. Over the years, many outstanding musicians have been associated with the competition including Van Cliburn, Ian Hobson, Daniel Pollak, Murray Perahia, Myung-whun Chung, Kevin Kenner, and Kirill Gerstein. Today, the Kosciuszko Foundation’s Chopin Competition continues to encourage gifted young pianists, ages 18–30, to further their studies and to perform the works of Polish composers. Since 2022, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition has been taking place in Washington D.C. with its new Artistic Director Mr. Martin Labazevitch.

These dedicated volunteers host Sunday classes to educate grades K-8. "I can't express the joy I feel when one of my students meets me occasionally at the elementary school where my kids attend. The innocence and love that children radiate without asking for anything in return is truly heartwarming!” Click here to read their stories!

You’ve been generous in providing for our parish needs. Your support of the Annual Appeal is in many ways an extension of your parish support. It is a critical source of funding for everything from seminarian formation to life and family ministries to pastoral and social outreach, all of which directly or indirectly impacts our parish and local community.

Pavlo Gintov is a world-class pianist. Don't miss this chance to see his art! Music is an expression of the soul, and through the God-given gifts of a performer, can bring the listener closer to the source of all that is, Our Lord. Gifted artists, performing in our church, provide an opportunity for people who might not otherwise have the chance to experience this music performed live, to do so in an environment that inspires the human spirit to seek a closer connection to God.

As the year comes to a close, this serves me the opportunity to ask God’s choicest blessings upon each of you and your families. May the Christ Child whom we long to see for ourselves one day in the Bethlehem of heaven find his Heart burning brightly in our own now and in the coming year.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our Troop 100 DC and Pack 100 Pancake Breakfast! We collected more than 565 pounds of food!

A huge thanks to Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre for speaking to our young adult ARK community St. Ann Young Adults last week! We were tremendously blessed by his talk on Diplomacy and the Church! #youngadults

Thank you to all who joined us! Send photos to director@stanndc.org

Two Dates, 25 Craft Vendors, 30 Faithful Volunteers, One Faith, One Body! Click to see photos!

Paul Jacobs, renowned organist, performs at Saint Ann’s 2010 American Guild of Organists Convention. This concert was hugely significant for our parish. Jacobs insisted on playing at St. Ann DC—imagine that! There was such a demand to hear him that he had to play the recital twice, drawing 2,200+ attendees. Click to see the Program from this historical event!

Each Rosary Comes with a Gift Box and Candle These are the only rosaries of their kind - depicting our church facade, the date 1869, our parish logo, our St. Ann and Mary statue in the parish garden next to the playground, and the cross at the altar of our church.

Can you help us identify anyone in some old photos? If yes, click here or on the photo to the left, and comment on the photos  - scroll toward the bottom of the photo album to find the ones with the brown background, which remain unidentified.

Join us Young Adults! St. Ann DC Alpha! Learn more by clicking here.

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday… Make a Giving Tuesday gift to St. Ann on Tuesday, November 28, 2024!

Let the Lord into your marriage to do His works! Learn how your Sacrament can be a light to the world by attending the next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience on July 14-16 in Rockville, MD or September 22-24 in Herndon, VA. Early sign up is recommended. For more information visit our website or contact us at applications@moments4marriage.org or 301-541-7007.

Written by parishioner Frank Zapatka, the Catholic Culture Series aims to help parishioners understand just how many arts the Catholic faith touches. Take a read this month about Gerard Manley Hopkins, an extraordinary Creation poet likened even to some of the psalmists!