HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
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  • About Us
    • I'm New!
    • Mass Times
    • Watch Mass Online >
      • Worship Aid for Mass
    • Perpetual Adoration
    • Pastor's Message >
      • Fr. Mike Article
    • Become a Member
    • Bulletins
    • Flocknotes
    • Our Church and Facilities >
      • Unity Hall
      • History
      • Church Accessibility
    • Church Leadership >
      • Parish Council
      • Finance Council
      • Corporators
    • Contact Us >
      • Staff Directory
      • Inclement Weather Policy
    • Directions
  • Calendar
    • Upcoming Events
  • Giving
    • HVAC Campaign
    • Celebratory Bricks
    • Fiscal Year Budget
    • Haiti Rectory Project
    • Annual Appeal 2023
  • Connect & Serve
    • Children's Ministries >
      • Vacation Bible Camp 2023
      • Children's Faith Formation
      • Children's Music Classes: Making Music, Praying Twice
      • Children's Liturgy of the Word: CLOW
      • NURSERY
      • CHILDREN'S LIBARY
    • Youth Ministry >
      • Steubenville Youth Conference 2023
      • Youth Service Opportunities
      • Sacristans Needed
    • Adult Ministries >
      • Current Adult Faith Studies
      • Young Adult Ministry
      • Adult Faith Opportunities List
      • Golf Tournament
      • Bereavement Program
      • Men's Ministry
      • Women's Ministry
      • Single Adult Ministry
      • Adoration Thursdays
      • Book Club
      • Stained Glass Windows Pilgrimage
      • Spiritual Direction
      • Separated, Widowed or Divorced
    • Family & Fellowship Ministries >
      • In Harmony Players: Auditions
      • MARY PILGRIMAGE
      • Graduation Sunday
      • Parish Picnic
      • Welcome Ministry
      • Mass Greeters
      • BLESSED ARE THEY
      • CHEESE AND WINE
      • Chapel Angels Ministry
      • COFFEE AND DONUTS
      • CREATING A HEALTHY FAMILY
      • FRIDAY FELLOWSHIP
      • Natural Family Planning
    • Community Outreach and Service >
      • Caring for Creation - Environmental Ministry
      • DivorceCare Support Group
      • Nora's Knapsacks
      • Lazaurs Ministry
      • Secular Franciscans
      • Respect Life
      • Sew Time
      • Knights of Columbus
      • Light House Shelter
      • march for life
      • Winter Relief
    • Liturgy and Worship
    • Music Ministry
    • Safe Environment
  • Sacraments
    • Baptism
    • Reconciliation
    • First Reconciliation & First Holy Communion
    • Eucharist
    • Confirmation
    • Matrimony >
      • Premarital Program
    • Holy Orders
    • Anointing of the Sick
  • Resources
    • Becoming Catholic
    • Formed.org
    • Catholic Teachings
    • Obituaries
    • Celebrate Recovery
    • SYNOD 2021 TO 2023 >
      • Synod Survey
      • synod county report
      • Ten Themes of the SYNOD
      • synod survey results
    • Other Resources

Eucharist or Holy Communion

A child’s first communion or reception of the Sacrament of the Eucharist normally takes place in the second grade - the year in which the child reaches the age of 8 - or later. 

​The child will be expected to take part in a program of preparation, and there will also be preparation sessions for parents.
The preparation for Eucharist is required in addition to the regularly scheduled religion sessions.  The Archdiocese requires a young person’s weekly participation in a Religious Education Program the year prior to and the year of preparation. That is, in order to receive a sacrament this year, a young person would need to have been enrolled in a catholic school or attended religious education sessions both last year and this year as well.

A mandatory meeting for parents of First Communicants is held in September.  Parents need to attend only one of these meetings.  This meeting will include information for Reconciliation and Holy Communion.  Please watch for future dates.

Older Children & Youth: RCIC
For older children contact Beth Supple at firstsacraments@hfccmail.org to learn more about the Rite of Christian Initiation of Children & Youth (RCIC). For adults who are interested in becoming Catholic, contact Charles Burke burkce53@gmail.com to learn about the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA).

Communion at Home 
If you are sick or housebound, you may feel cut off from the spiritual life of the Church, especially from the Mass. Receiving Holy Communion keeps you ‘in communion’ with Christ and the Church at these times. Holy Communion can be brought to you at home by the parish priest or by a lay minister of Holy Communion.

All of the sick or housebound are an important part of the parish, so please inform the parish office if you are unable to be at Mass even for a short time, so that you may be brought Holy Communion at home.

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
The Parish Priest will invite suitable parishioners to undertake this important ministry. After preparation and training in the parish, the new minister will be commissioned by the Bishop for one year.  The commission is renewed annually in the parish, normally on the feast of Corpus Christi. As well as assisting with the distribution of Communion at Mass, ministers may be asked to take Communion to sick and housebound members of the parish.
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Holy Family Catholic Church
826 W Central Ave
Davidsonville, MD 21035

​Contact Us
​410-269-0586 or 301-261-7399
​Fax: 410-798-5315
Email: office@hfccmail.org

Parish Office Hours
Monday–Thursday: 8:30am–4:30pm
Fridays: 8:30am–Noon

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Mass Times
Weekend Masses in the Main Church 
Saturday: 5:00pm
Sundays: 7:45am, 9:15am & 11:15am
(Nursery Available at 9:15 am and 11:15 am masses)

Weekday Masses in the Main Church
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 9:00am

Reconciliation/Confession 
Wednesdays, 5pm-6pm & Saturday 3:30pm-4:45pm and by appointment. 


Photo credits for church photography: Megan Kelsey Photography