Starting September 17th, join us for monthly classes to increase our faith and education as a family.

Starting September 17th, join us for monthly classes to increase our faith and education as a family.
Lord God, Master of the Vineyard, How wonderful that you have invited us who labor by the sweat of our brow to be workers in the vineyard and assist your work to shape the world around us. As we seek to respond to this call, make us attentive to those who seek work but cannot find it. Help us listen to the struggles of those who work hard to provide for their families but still have trouble making ends meet. Open our eyes to the struggles of those exploited and help us speak for just wages and safe conditions, the freedom to organize, and time for renewal. For work was made for humankind and not humankind for work. Let it not be a vehicle for exploitation but a radiant expression of our human dignity. Give all who labor listening hearts that we may pause from our work to receive your gift of rest. Fill us with your Holy Spirit that you might work through us to let your justice reign. Amen.
All Middle School & High School Youth Group students (grades 6th-12th) are invited for our Teen Mass starting at 4:00 PM. Then join us for food and games till 8:00 PM in the Parish Hall!
Contact us for more information and to RSVP at youthministry@stmaryrockledge.org
Sunday, August 27
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
All Faith Formation students and families are invited!
Be prepared! Meet the catechists, get important information about classes and sacramental prep, and receive a calendar of events!
Join us in the Parish Hall. Pizza and drinks will be provided.
Meets on Sundays 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Family Catechesis for all Faith Formation and Parish families meets once on month on Sunday at 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM.
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Holy Day of Obligation. Please join us for Mass!
Thank you to everyone who came out to help!
All young adults are invited to GAME NIGHT!
Friday, July 28th at 6:30 PM in the Parish Office. Contact Sean for more information at youngadults@stmaryrockledge.org
Thank you to everyone who came to say your good-byes to Fr. Mark this weekend. We are grateful for his time at St. Mary Church. Please keep him in prayer as his transitions to Annunciation Catholic Church in Altamonte Springs.
It is good to be with you!
The Archbishop of Atlanta has loaned me to the Diocese of Orlando and Bishop Noonan has assigned me to St. Mary-Rockledge. I go by Father Joe. My last name is an Ellis Island name. Spelled Shaute. Phonetically: SHAY-ute. I am ¼ Austria-Hungarian and ¾ Irish. I have been a priest for more than 22 years, ordained on June 2, 2001. That means my first year as a priest included September 11, 2001 (911) and the January 2002 Boston Priest Scandal. My first year. Baptism by fire. My life journey began in Washington State, the first born son of an Army officer from Scranton, Pa., and an artist/interior designer from Lowell, Mass., who met at a wedding. My parents were married 57 years when my mom died of Alzheimer’s in December 2018. My dad died of COVID in April 2020. By the time I started first grade, we had moved six times in six years. For the next 14 years, we lived in Miami, an alive, vibrant multi-cultural place in the 1970s. Where I would learn Spanish and receive my First Communion and Sacrament of Confirmation. At age 20, we moved to Metro Atlanta, where I would finish my Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism at Georgia State University. After working for 12 years in the Communications field—and volunteering as a Life Teen Core Member at St. Ann’s for five years—the teens at St. Ann’s would call me to live my God-given vocation. And not be afraid. Over the last 22 years I have served as a priest in four parishes. I am a two-time cancer survivor, recently defeating Stage 3 Lymphoma Cancer. My health brings me here, a change of climate to reduce allergies and less administrative responsibilities. -Father Joe