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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]are you allowed to choose your own parish in the NOVA area?   i had heard that they were pretty strict about only accepting people who lived in a certain area.[/quote]

They may give you grief about registering if you're out of bounds without some reason, but they won't ban you from attending. [/quote]

Nativity specifically allows this.  You are supposed to get a letter from your "in bounds" parish (i.e. the one you're supposed to be going to) and then Nativity will accept you.  St. Mary's in Old Town will absolutely NOT take you in for performing weddings, or any kind of service is you do not live in the defined district.  They will GLADLY accept your donations every week, they are happy to have you join their groups and take leadership roles, but as many couples who met there find out -- if you don't live in their zone, they ain't marrying you or baptising your kids.

I asked the secretary at Nativity about getting the letter and what it was for -- she said it was a form that basically releases you from your assigned parish.  I said "What if I never really joined my assigned parish -- do I still need to get a form from them?"  And that totally threw her off b/c the idea that I wasn't going to church EVERY Sunday was in her words "beyond her pay grade" to know whether they could take my family in as a member or not.  Although I was SUPER impressed by the lead priest, the secretary's comments just reminded me how rule-based the whole thing is.  We didn't end up joining, but on the rare occassion when we decide to go to church, Nativity is our preferred choice...... and we live near Ft. Belvoir... so it's a bit of a drive up the parkway.[/quote]

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