Please see the tab called Lent 2020, above, next to the Home tab. On the Lent 2020 page, there is a new  item called The Walk With Jesus Text Experience. You can sign up to receive text messages in real time, as Jesus would have experienced the events of Holy Week. Check it out!

There is also a subpage called Holy Week 2020. It has a document called Holy Week at Home, and it is for your personal prayer. We encourage all to view Holy Week Masses with Archbishop Gregory.  A list of Mass times and channels can be found at: https://adw.org/live-streamed-masses-and-prayers/

The Parish and Rectory Offices remain closed until further notice. Emails and voicemails will be checked periodically throughout the day. We appreciate your patience and understanding as staff members are not available for in-person services. 

For the latest updates, please visit https://adw.org/coronavirus/ , or https://www.stnicholaslaurel.org/ . Parishioners are also encouraged to sign up on Flocknotes at https://stnicholaslaurel.flocknote.com/everyone , or texting the keyword SaintNick to 84576 for reflections and updates.

If there is a dire emergency that requires a Catholic priest, parishioners may select the sacramental emergency line option on the Parish Office voicemail.

All Weekday and Weekend Masses are canceled at St. Nicholas, and in all churches of the Archdiocese of Washington, until further notice. Archbishop Gregory has given a dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation.

Religious Education classes are suspended until further notice.

At this moment, in addition to cancelled Masses, all meetings, events, and rehearsals are cancelled in the Church and Parish Hall. Holy Week Masses will not be celebrated publicly, however, may be viewed via livestream at https://adw.org/media-events/events/holy-week/

Sacrament of Confession. For everyone's health and safety and keeping in mind the stay-at-home directive by the Governor of the State of Maryland, the regularly scheduled Saturday afternoon confessions at Saint Nicholas Parish are now by appointment only. Please leave a voicemail at 301-490-5116 by Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. to confirm your Saturday afternoon time for confession.

3:00 PM Daily Prayer - Fr. Mel has invited us all to pray one decade of the rosary each day at 3:00 PM. This is the hour of mercy, and by joining together - from wherever we are - we can be of spiritual support to each other and our world. To pray one decade of the rosary, say one Our Father and ten Hail Marys.

See the subpages (listed in the menu to the left) for the Letter to Parishioners on the Corona virus from Fr. Mel, our pastor, and Spiritual Resources for coping with the pandemic.

Saint Nicholas Parish needs your support more than ever. Just like any household, the Parish has regular monthly bills to pay and the offertory collection is the main source of income for the parish. Please join the parishioners who are using Faith Direct for automated giving to Saint Nicholas Parish. Faith Direct offers a safe and secure way to donate to our parish in this time of uncertainty. There is no cost to sign up and the program provides a great benefit to our parish. Read and click the image below to sign up today. You can always mail your offertory to the Parish or drop it in our secure mailbox by the Rectory.