Today, in addition to being my Mother’s birthday (and the eve of Kiana’s, as well) is, of course, the Feast of the Assumption.

For Mass today we went to Old St. John’s in Silver Spring (also known as Our Lady, Queen of Poland).

This parish has the distinction of having been the first parish of a certain Fr. John Carroll in 1774, who later became Archbishop John Carrol, first Bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States in 1808, in the See of Baltimore.

There is also a marker for Daniel Carroll, brother to John Carroll, who was a Founding Father of the United States, a member of the Second Continental Congress, and a signer of both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution - one of only four men to hold that distinction.

We usually only have occasion to make it to this parish on holy days, because they have a morning Gregorian Rite Mass, whereas most of the other Masses in the old rite are held later in the evenings.  Today, I brought my camera so I could get pictures of the kids after Mass, and I got some nice shots of Sophie in particular as she explored the cemetery.

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