Pregnancy Aid Clinic is a non-profit center that has been providing life-changing services regardless of financial ability, race, age, or religion since 1984. Our care addresses the whole woman- mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual in a compassionate and nonjudgmental way.
The clinic offers comprehensive programs for mothers and fathers to navigate from pregnancy to parenthood with a focus on parenting and life skills. We strive to protect children by strengthening families.
Thanks to donations, grants, and committed volunteers who work together to create a support system, our services are available at no charge.

Please consider participating in a PAC Digital Baby Bottle Event!
Baby Bottle drives are a primary source of revenue for Pregnancy Aid Clinic, providing funds to maintain clinic operations; the clinic relies on your donations to keep PAC operating, and continue supporting women and families in need.
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The online event is simple!
To donate please click here.  
Every bit helps – this is an event that usually is filled with pennies and nickels – no gift is too small for the smallest among us.

For more information, please visit: https://www.pregnancyaidclinic.com/babybottle.html

Music Director – Scott Dixon 

Scott moved here from Savannah in Sept. 2020 and was traveling back to Savannah to play at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church where he joined the staff in 2017.  Prior to St. Frances was the music director/Organist at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Savannah for 4 years.  He also served at St. Matthews Church in Statesboro.  Scott began sharing his musical talents at his grandparents church in Waycross.  He then was organist for an Episcopal Church in Okeechobee, Florida and then at Central Baptist Church in Waycross and Trinity United Methodist in Waycross.  He is looking forward to working with the wonderful singers and musicians at St. Mary Magdalene.

Assistant Music Director – Stephanie Rucker 

I wanted to introduce myself.  For those of you who do not know me, my name is Stephanie Rucker and I am so happy to be back at St. Mary Magdalene.  I am very excited to be joining the staff as the Assistant Music Director.  I cannot wait to get started and work with Scott to continue adding fabulous music to our Masses and special services here at church. To offer a little bit of a personal background, I am the oldest of 7 children and have three boys of my own.  I am originally from Va. Beach, VA and moved to GA in 2001 and was welcomed into the music department here at SMM in 2008.  I am looking forward to working and singing with all of you!!  I would like to wish my friend Johnny all of the best.  We will miss him.

Holy Thursday:
To watch live, please go to: https://youtu.be/VRYrjYldHLA
Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7pm
Adoration after 7 pm Mass – 12 am

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Good Friday:
To watch live Mediation and Devotion(10 am – 3 pm), please go to: https://youtu.be/J8ye2h7k7AE
Scriptural Rosary, 10 am
Stations of the Cross, 12:30 pm
Seven Last Words, 1 pm
Tenebrae Service, 1:45 pm
Divine Mercy Chaplet, 2:45 pm

To watch live Celebration of the Lord’s Passion,
please got to: https://youtu.be/0RthFbJ2iiQ
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion,  7 pm

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Holy Saturday:
Easter Vigil Mass
9 pm

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Easter Sunday:
Masses:
8:30 am (to watch live, go to: https://youtu.be/5Ypadf0VocM )
10:30 am
12:30 pm

Gather your family and connect with us via Zoom to pray and worship as a community of faith for our global family. The event will feature guest host  Danielle Noonan —musician, worship leader and speaker—and a special guest performance by Catholic musician Sarah Kroger.

Once you register, you will receive an email containing the event link.

Bring Lent to life at home and join us as we pray for our sisters and brothers around the world and their stories of resilience and hope.

Sign up now for our Family Prayer and Worship Evening on March 24 at 7 p.m. EST.

Please register for the event at: https://support.crs.org/form/register-lent-prayer-night.

Knights of Columbus Council 12862
Monks’ Bakery Easter Sale

Please help us support the Monastery of the Holy Spirit by buying their products.

Monks’ Bakery Items & Monk Made Products
Please shop now thru March 24, 2021
https://kofc12862.squere.site/

Items preordered now through March 24, 2021 will be available for drive-by pickup on Saturday, April 3, 9 am to 1 pm.

The pick up location is:
Central Community Center
65 Literary Lane
This is the polling place across from the Library near the church.
Look for a truck with Knights in green shirts.

Monastery of the Holy Spirit
This Order is a monastic institute wholly ordered to contemplation. The monks dedicate themselves to the worship of God in a hidden life within the monastery under the Rule of St Benedict. They lead a monastic way of life in solitude and silence, in assiduous prayer and joyful penitence as defined in these Constitutions, thus rendering to the divine majesty a service that is at once humble and noble.
(https://www.trappist.net/about)

The work of the monk is primarily to sing praises to God and to pray for the world.
Meanwhile, the Rule of St. Benedict directs the monks to work for their living “by their own hands.” (https://www.trappist.net/abbey-trades)

Our parish will take up The Catholic Relief Services Collection
on March 13-14 weekend.

Funds from this Collection  provide food to the hungry, support displaced refugees, and bring Christ’s love and
mercy to vulnerable people here and abroad.  Through your generosity, six Catholic agencies help Jesus in the guise of the vulnerable refugee, the immigrant family, and the poor and marginalized.

Please prayerfully consider contributing to
The Catholic Relief Services Collection.

Learn more about the collection at
www.usccb.org/catholic-relief

Dear Friends in Christ:

As you know, our Holy Father has called this the Year of St. Joseph (Dec. 8, 2020 – Dec. 8, 2021). In anticipation of the Solemnity of St. Joseph on March 19, I am asking all the faithful of the archdiocese to join me in a novena to St. Joseph, starting on Wednesday, March 10, and ending with the celebration of the Holy Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King on Friday, March 19, at 12:10 p.m. For the novena, we will use the Litany of St. Joseph, available here. During the Mass on Friday, March 19, I will consecrate the Archdiocese of Atlanta to the intercession and protection of St. Joseph. The Mass will be available via livestream or on the archdiocesan Facebook page. Please pray with me during these days and participate in the Mass as you are able.

Following the novena and consecration, I encourage all parishes to consider including in your Prayers of the Faithful during Mass the following prayer (or adaptation thereof):

Father in Heaven, You called St. Joseph to be the first guardian of our Lord Jesus Christ in the tabernacle of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s womb. Grant us, by his intercession, a renewed love of Jesus in His Most Blessed Sacrament and the grace to care for Christ’s body by caring for our brothers and sisters. We pray to the Lord…

An adapted form of the prayer of consecration will be added to the website, and holy cards will be made. I encourage families and all individuals to pray this prayer and to consider other ways to observe the Year of St. Joseph, keeping in mind the special indulgences attached to the Litany of St. Joseph and other prayers during this year. See the website for more information.

Please be assured of my prayers for a blessed Lent. St. Joseph, pray for us!

The Most Reverend Gregory John Hartmayer, OFM Conv.