Ash Wednesday, March 6th
Masses/Ashes
7:30am, 9:00am, 5:00pm, 7:00pm
Liturgy of the Word/Ashes 1:00pm
Stations of the Cross
All Fridays during Lent
(March 8,th, 15th, 22nd, 29th & April 12th)
School’s Living Stations of the Cross Presentations:
Thursday, April 4th at 1:30pm and Friday, April 5th at
7:00pm
Parish Mission
March 18,th 19th, & 20th at 7:00pm
Parish Lenten Reconciliation
Thursday, April 4th at 7:00pm
Holy Thursday, April 18th
No Morning Mass
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00pm
Eucharistic Adoration 8:00pm-Midnight
Good Friday, April 19th
No Morning Mass
Holy Hour 2:00-3:00pm
Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord 7:00pm
Holy Saturday, April 20th
No Morning Mass
Blessing of Food Baskets 1:00pm
Easter Vigil Mass 8:00pm (1-1/2 hour duration)
Easter Sunday Masses, April 21st
7:00am, 8:30am, 10:15am (church), 10:15am (gym), 12 noon,
NO 6:30pm Mass
Lenten Regulations
- Everyone 14 years of age or over is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent.
- All from the age of 18 years up to the beginning of their 60th year are bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
- On these two days of fast and abstinence, only one full meatless meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted on these two days, but liquids, including milk and fruit juices are allowed. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige.
- To disregard completely the law of fast and abstinence is seriously sinful.
- Lent is the principal season of penance in the Church year. All of the faithful are strongly urged to develop and follow a program of voluntary self-denial (in addition to following the Lenten regulations), serious prayer, and a performance of works of charity and mercy.
- Those who are sick, pregnant, or nursing, or whose health would adversely be affected by fasting or abstinence, should not consider themselves bound by these norms.