PASTOR'S CORNER
Welcome to the Parish of St. Ann's 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
March 29, 2026
Dear Parishioners,
With today’s Palm Sunday liturgy we enter into that most important week of the year for us Catholics, that week which we call holy. And we call this week holy because God, in His infinite goodness, takes what should be considered the most horrific and unjust of crimes: the wrongful indictment and execution of His own Son, and makes of it the means for our salvation. In our liturgies this week we will see the conspiracy that brought about Jesus’ wrongful arrest. We will sit with Christ at the Last Supper as He gives us the inseparable gifts of the priesthood and the Eucharist, and we will follow Him into the Garden of Gethsemane to watch with Him. We will witness all that He suffers for us, and we will stand at the foot of the cross with His Mother as Jesus dies for our sins. And finally we will peer into the empty tomb on the third day and experience anew the glory of His resurrection. What a holy week indeed!
As your pastor I personally invite all of you to come and participate in the liturgies. Meditate on all the great mysteries of our salvation. Enter into the mysteries of our faith, for this week is different than any other week of the year. And be sure to pray for our fellow parishioners who will be entering into full communion with the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night.
Our Holy Thursday Mass will be at 7 p.m., and we will have Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until Midnight. On Good Friday we will have Stations of the Cross at noon, and confessions from noon – 2pm. The Passion Liturgy of Good Friday will be at 3 p.m., and our Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday will begin at 8:15 p.m. Bear in mind that this is a long Mass – often2½ - 3 hours – so plan accordingly. Our Masses on Easter Sunday will be as normal: 8am, 10:30am, and 12:30pm (Latin). There will be no confessions on Thursday at 5:30pm or Saturday at 3pm.
As a reminder, in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday, which is always the Sunday immediately following Easter, it is customary for Catholics to pray the Divine Mercy Novena daily, beginning on Good Friday and ending on Divine Mercy Sunday. Additionally, Catholics who receive Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday, go to confession within 20 days of Divine Mercy Sunday, and who pray for the intentions of the pope (a Creed and an Our Father will suffice) are granted a plenary indulgence. We generally have copies of this novena in the North Vestibule or in the Narthex. This is a very spiritually beneficial devotion that I hope many of you will participate in.
Lastly, I encourage all of you to be praying for the many members of St. Ann who are preparing for Sacraments this Easter Season, especially those in OCIA, and our young people preparing for Confirmation and 1st Holy Communion.
Wishing you a blessed Holy Week,
Fr. Reid
With today’s Palm Sunday liturgy we enter into that most important week of the year for us Catholics, that week which we call holy. And we call this week holy because God, in His infinite goodness, takes what should be considered the most horrific and unjust of crimes: the wrongful indictment and execution of His own Son, and makes of it the means for our salvation. In our liturgies this week we will see the conspiracy that brought about Jesus’ wrongful arrest. We will sit with Christ at the Last Supper as He gives us the inseparable gifts of the priesthood and the Eucharist, and we will follow Him into the Garden of Gethsemane to watch with Him. We will witness all that He suffers for us, and we will stand at the foot of the cross with His Mother as Jesus dies for our sins. And finally we will peer into the empty tomb on the third day and experience anew the glory of His resurrection. What a holy week indeed!
As your pastor I personally invite all of you to come and participate in the liturgies. Meditate on all the great mysteries of our salvation. Enter into the mysteries of our faith, for this week is different than any other week of the year. And be sure to pray for our fellow parishioners who will be entering into full communion with the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night.
Our Holy Thursday Mass will be at 7 p.m., and we will have Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until Midnight. On Good Friday we will have Stations of the Cross at noon, and confessions from noon – 2pm. The Passion Liturgy of Good Friday will be at 3 p.m., and our Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday will begin at 8:15 p.m. Bear in mind that this is a long Mass – often2½ - 3 hours – so plan accordingly. Our Masses on Easter Sunday will be as normal: 8am, 10:30am, and 12:30pm (Latin). There will be no confessions on Thursday at 5:30pm or Saturday at 3pm.
As a reminder, in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday, which is always the Sunday immediately following Easter, it is customary for Catholics to pray the Divine Mercy Novena daily, beginning on Good Friday and ending on Divine Mercy Sunday. Additionally, Catholics who receive Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday, go to confession within 20 days of Divine Mercy Sunday, and who pray for the intentions of the pope (a Creed and an Our Father will suffice) are granted a plenary indulgence. We generally have copies of this novena in the North Vestibule or in the Narthex. This is a very spiritually beneficial devotion that I hope many of you will participate in.
Lastly, I encourage all of you to be praying for the many members of St. Ann who are preparing for Sacraments this Easter Season, especially those in OCIA, and our young people preparing for Confirmation and 1st Holy Communion.
Wishing you a blessed Holy Week,
Fr. Reid