The 9:00 AM Sunday Mass is accompanied by a more traditional choir. They rehearse at 8:30 AM on Sundays and again at 10:15 AM on Sundays. This choir takes a break during the summer months. We can always use new members!
For more information, please contact Raymond St. Pierre at 703-971-4378 or via email.
Carpenter’s Shelter, located at 930 N. Henry Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, supports the homeless in achieving sustainable independence through shelter, guidance, education and advocacy. For more information about their work visit their website here.
Volunteers from St. Lawrence parish support their work by making sandwiches once a month for the homeless at Carpenter’s Shelter. Each member of this ministry makes sandwiches only about once or twice a year. For more information, please contact the Parish Office at 703-971-4378 or via email.
The Assistant Catechist serves as a hands-on helper in our CCD classrooms. The Assistant takes attendance and assists the catechist as needed. Our catechists value your assistance and our children need your caring presence. Teens are welcome to serve as an Assistant Catechist.
To learn more about this delightful and rewarding Spiritual Work of Mercy, please contact the Director of Religious Education, Joseph Stakem at 703-971-8541 or via email.
Please note that this volunteer position requires compliance with the Child Safety/VIRTUS policy of the Diocese of Arlington.
Our Prayer Angels, following the example of the angels at Fatima by teaching our CCD students their various Catholic prayers. As a Prayer Angel, you listen to and teach prayers to students from grades 1 to 8 one at a time as needed.
If you believe our Lord is calling you to serve Him in this rewarding Spiritual Work of Mercy, please contact the Director of Religious Education, Joseph Stakem at 703-971-8541 or via email.
Please note that this volunteer position requires compliance with the Child Safety/VIRTUS policy of the Diocese of Arlington.
Many of the Parish receptions—e.g., Easter Vigil, Confirmation, Ordinations, priest’s anniversaries, Pro-Life Chili supper, Vacation Religion School snacks, and others—have been provided and hosted by the Council of Catholic Women.
Please contact the parish office at 703-971-4378 or via email if you would like to volunteer for this ministry and help us with any of these activities.
We need your help with organizing supplies, books, data entry, Christmas wrapping, and other various administrative tasks throughout the school year.
If you are willing to give our Lord a few hours a week or a month to help us with this, please contact the Director of Religious Education, Joseph Stakem at 703-971-8541 or via email.
Please note that this volunteer position requires compliance with Child Safety/VIRTUS policy of the Diocese of Arlington.
Here at St. Lawrence, we are graced with a beautiful garden, now named in honor of Fr. Franklyn McAfee whose tireless work in and with the garden is reflected in the beauty seen today. The beauty of the garden, however, requires nearly constant upkeep, attention, and work. The members of the Rose Garden Ministry help to maintain the garden in a beautiful state by weeding, mulching, tending, and looking after it.
If you wish to use your gardening talents to enhance the beauty of our garden here, please let us know by contact the Parish Office at 703-971-4379 or email.
“As one of the oldest plants on earth, the rose has long been regarded as the queen of flowers and, for that reason, has always bee associated with the Virgin Mary and the best qualities of womanhood.” –Father Franklyn McAfee
So much occurs behind the scenes supporting the beautiful liturgies celebrated here at St. Lawrence.
Much of the thanks for this fact goes to the tireless efforts of many behind-the-scenes individuals, but particularly the work of the sacristans and their assistants. This ministry includes helping set up for the weekday and weekend Masses, helping with arrangements for Funeral Masses, and assisting in major liturgical celebration in the seasonal Church calendar–like Christmas and, most notably, Holy Week.
If you want to help us worship our Lord in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and other sacraments please contact Father Gripshover at 703-971-4378 or via email.
Donated, non-perishable food items and gift cards are sorted and packed before both Thanksgiving and Christmas for delivery to our parish members in need.
If you want to volunteer for this Corporal Work of Mercy or if you know of anyone who is in need of a basket on Thanksgiving or Christmas please contact Cathy Crawford at 703-971-4378 or via email.
The youth choir is open to all youth of the parish from ages 8 to 16. This choir sings every first and third Sundays of the month during the school year at a different Mass each time. This choir rehearses on Sundays from 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, but not on the same weekends that this choir sings at Mass. This choir takes a break during the summer. Please contact Raymond St. Pierre at 703-971-4378 or via email for more information.
