When: Sunday, September 18, 2011.
Web: The parish's ADW listing is here; its own website is here.
We attended 11:00am Mass at this parish church in the Anacostia neighborhood. We arrived at the church a little early, and entered to find a small group praying the Rosary. By the start of Mass, the congregation was about eighty strong. The congregation was exclusively black (aside from us), and largely older. There was a noticeable absence of teens and other young people.
Two priests celebrated Mass with the assistance of a deacon, three altar servers, two readers, and a Gospel choir of eight. The Mass followed the standard rite. Both bread and wine were offered for communion. The priest focused his homily on the Gospel reading of the day, in which Jesus told the parable of the farm laborers (each paid the same, irrespective of their work). The priest forcefully told us that the inequality on earth will not be present in heaven; that God loves us all equally; and that those of us who might be pious or consider ourselves better than others (for whatever reason), will be welcomed no more or less than a wicked person.