2010 LENTEN SCHEDULE
"For unto this are you
called; because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you
should follow His steps." (1 Peter 2:21)
"Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish."
(Luke 13:3)
"I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of Heaven.
And the name of that river was Suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls
across the river. And the name of that boat was Love"
(St. John of the Cross)
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About Lent
Lent History, Information, Prayers, Resources, Traditions, & More
| LENT BEGINS | 1ST WEEK OF LENT |
2ND WEEK OF LENT | 3RD WEEK OF LENT | 4TH WEEK OF LENT |
5TH WEEK OF LENT |
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| Feb. 17 - 21, 2010 | Feb. 22 - 28, 2010 | Mar. 1 - Mar. 7, 2010 | Mar. 8 - 14, 2010 | Mar. 15 - 21, 2010 | Mar. 22 - 28, 2010 | Mar. 29 - Apr. 11, 2010 |
 ASH WEDNESDAY February 17 Day of mandatory fast and abstinence! Masses 6:30 am, 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Blessing with ashes will follow each Mass. |
Monday, Feb. 22 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross for Children (grades 1 - 8) 4:00 pm in Church |
Monday, Mar. 1 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross for Children (grades 1 - 8) 4:00 pm in Church Divine Mercy Night 6:30 pm in Church |
Monday, Mar. 8 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross for Children (grades 1 - 8) 4:00 pm in Church Holy Hour for Vocations 7:00 pm in Church |
Monday, Mar. 15 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross for Children (grades 1 - 8) 4:00 pm in Church Holy Hour for Vocations 7:00 pm in Church |
Monday, Mar. 22 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross for Children (grades 1 - 8) 4:00 pm in Church ~Parish Mission~ Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:00 pm in Church |
Monday, Mar. 29 Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |
| Thursday, Feb. 18 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Tuesday, Feb. 23 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass |
Tuesday, Mar. 2 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass |
Tuesday, Mar. 9 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass |
Tuesday, Mar. 16 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass |
Tuesday, Mar. 23 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass ~Parish Mission~ Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:00 pm in Church |
Tuesday, Mar. 30 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Pro-Life Rosary before 12:10 Mass |
| Friday, Feb. 19 Day of Abstinence!  Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Wednesday, Feb. 24 Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm |
Wednesday, Mar. 3 Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm |
Wednesday, Mar. 10 Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm |
Wednesday, Mar. 17 Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm |
Wednesday, Mar. 24 Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm ~Parish Mission~ Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:00 pm in Church |
Wednesday, Mar. 31 Spy Wednesday Masses at 12:10 & 5:30 pm |
| Saturday, Feb. 20 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Thursday, Feb. 25 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Thursday, Mar. 4 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Thursday, Mar. 11 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Thursday, Mar. 18 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Thursday, Mar. 25 Masses at 6:30 am & 12:10 pm Rosary before 6:30 am Mass in Church Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 7:00 am in Church |
Thursday, Apr. 1 Holy Thursday/Maundy Thursday  Altar Server Practice for Mass of the Lord's Supper at 10:00 am in Church Mass of the Lord's Supper & Washing of the Feet Ceremony at 7:00 pm ONLY SERVICE TODAY! |
| Sunday, Feb. 21 Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm First Sunday of Lent |
Friday, Feb. 26 Day of Abstinence! Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Friday, Mar. 5 Day of Abstinence! Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Friday, Mar. 12 Day of Abstinence! Masses at 12:10 pm 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Friday, Mar. 19 Day of Abstinence! Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Friday, Mar. 26 Day of Abstinence! Masses at 12:10 pm & 5:30 pm Way of the Cross following each 5:30 pm Mass |
Friday, Apr. 2 Good Friday  Altar Server Practice for Mass of Good Friday at 10:00 am in Church Commemoration of the Lord's Passion and Death at 3:00 pm ONLY SERVICE TODAY! Obligatory Day of Fast & Abstinence! Solemn Way of the Cross at 6:00 pm |
| Saturday, Feb. 27 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Saturday, Mar. 6 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Saturday, Mar. 13 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Saturday, Mar. 20 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Saturday, Mar. 27 Mass is at 5:30 pm Sacrament of Penance is available for all from 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm |
Saturday, Apr. 3 Holy Saturday Altar Server & R.C.I.A. Practice for Vigil at 10:00 am in Church Solemn Easter vigil at 8:00 pm ONLY SERVICE TODAY! |
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| Sunday, Feb. 28 Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm Second Sunday of Lent |
Sunday, Mar. 7 Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm Third Sunday of Lent |
Sunday, Mar. 14 Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm Fourth Sunday of Lent |
Sunday, Mar. 21 Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm Sacrament of Confirmation 6:00 pm Mass Fifth Sunday of Lent |
Sunday, Mar. 28 Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion  Masses at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon & 6:00 pm **PLEASE NOTE** ALL MASSES BEGIN THIS WEEKEND IN THE FRONT OF THE RECTORY WITH THE BLESSING OF THE PALMS! |
Sunday, Apr. 4 Easter Sunday Masses at 8:00 am & 10:00 am Have a Happy and Blessed Easter!!!  |
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| LENTEN PRACTICES, WHAT THEY INVOLVE AND YOUR OBLIGATION | ||||||
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PRAYER Holy Mass on Weekdays as well as on Weekends Way of the Cross every week; Daily Rosary Make a Mission or a Retreat; Bible Reading Special Family Prayer Time; Join a Prayer Group Meditation for ten (10) or more minutes a day Any other Special Devotions (e.g. Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Divine Mercy Chaplet) |
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR SPECIAL EFFORT DURING LENT! |
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PENANCE A) Fasting: Only one full meal a day and no solid food between meals B) Abstinence: No meat at all ~ Limiting or "doing without" alcoholic beverages, smoking, candy, etc. ~ "Cutting back" on other pleasurable activities (e.g., t.v., gambling, blogging, internet gaming, etc.) |
SERIOUS OBLIGATION - ON ASH WEDNESDAY -ON ALL FRIDAY'S OF LENT |
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| STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR SPECIAL EFFORT DURING LENT! |
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ALMSGIVING (Money to assist the needy, especially through Church programs) ~ Contributing to second collections ~ Bishop's Overseas Relief ~ "Rice Bowl" (savings during Lent) on Holy Thursday ~ Holy Land Shrines on Good Friday ~ Education of Future Priests on Easter Weekend ~ Review Church support habits and consider and increase 5% (modern tithing) or at least one hours wage per week |
STRONGLY RECOMMEDED FOR SPECIAL EFFORT DURING LENT |
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"GOOD WORKS" ~ Special efforts to visit the sick or shut-ins (e.g. Nursing homes, hospitals) ~ Helping at Social Service Center or Saint Francis Diner ~ Greater involvement in Church activities (e.g. Usher, Music Ministries, Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors) ~ Special effort to "get to Church" on time and "stay until the end" ~ Give quality time to family |
STRONGLY RECOMMEDED FOR SPECIAL EFFORT DURING LENT |
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| Concern: Your at Church at lot during Holy Week - How Strange |
| By David Bennett |
| It does indeed seem strange to many that those in
the Catholic and Orthodox Traditions (and to some extent certain
high-church groups) go to Church so much during Holy Week. Holy Week is
the week prior to Easter, beginning on Palm Sunday, the day we remember
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. The entire week celebrates the final days
of Jesus' life, and then culminates in the greatest festival of the
Christian year: Easter, the feast of Jesus' resurrection. Between Palm
Sunday and Easter Sunday we celebrate Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and
Holy Saturday. On Maundy Thursday, we celebrate Jesus' institution of
the Last Supper and his mandate (where the term "Maundy" comes from)
that we should love one another as he loves us. On Good Friday we
solemnly recall Jesus' humiliation and bloody death. It is customary to
fast that day, in order to participate in Jesus' own suffering, by
denying our bodily pleasures. Finally on Holy Saturday, we recall Jesus'
time in the tomb, and the despair of the followers of Jesus. It is on
Saturday night that we begin the Great Vigil of Easter. In the early
Church they celebrated the Vigil beginning at night, and then continued
until the dawn when the newly baptized received their first communion
around the time that Jesus was resurrected. Thus, Holy Week is a busy
and involved time period. So yes, Holy Week is very busy for us. In fact, it should be busy. In the ancient Church the entire lives of Christians revolved around the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Christians risked death, torture, and humiliation in order to worship Jesus and celebrate his life. Today we often find that even though we give lip service to the importance of our faith, Christian worship still takes a back seat to most secular endeavors. Family get-togethers, jobs, TV time, meetings, and a whole host of other things stop us from worshiping Jesus. Many probably secretly wonder why God expects them to even worship Him on Sundays, seeing how modern life is so crowded with all-important events like soccer practice and piano recitals. However, in the early Church, Christians' lives were based around the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and thus the feasts of the Church trumped any secular engagement that might occur. In many ways, our culture wishes to dumb down meaningful events, and make things easier to do. In this type of culture, Holy Week celebrations are usually the first to go. Holy Week is challenging. It is time consuming. In a way, it separates the men from the boys. It is, in our modern culture, difficult to fast, to attend a 2-3 hour vigil at 10:30 PM on a Saturday, and to spend three evenings at Church in a row. However, Jesus' life was challenging, and following Him sometimes requires a lack of comfort as well. In fact, the mild discomfort we may face in our rich, Western culture is nowhere near the discomfort Jesus and his early followers often faced. It is very easy to be passive, and to simply talk about Jesus and not actively follow and worship Him. To live as Jesus did, and worship Him within a local church community, is more difficult. However, for the early Church, Holy Week was the key celebration of the year, and the high point of their lives in Christ, culminating in the feast of the Resurrection, called Easter or Pascha. I guess that many of us give accolades to the resurrection with our lips, but do we show it in our lives? Yes, the devotion required for Holy Week is strange from a secular standpoint. Why would anybody give up all that time to worship a guy who lived 2000 years ago? As Christians, however, such worship and celebration is not strange at all, because Jesus has not merely lived, but is alive and risen today! As those who are born from above in Christ Jesus, we see secular culture as "strange," because having been given the gift of the Holy Spirit through Baptism, our entire lives are oriented around Jesus. Therefore giving our time to celebrate and worship Jesus, even when it is not convenient, is the normal response to God's love for us. |
| Spy Wednesday This is an old and uncommon name for the Wednesday of Holy Week, which commemorates Judas' agreement to betray Jesus (see Matthew 26:3-5, 14-16). |
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Thursday/Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday, known officially in the Catholic Church as Holy Thursday, is the Thursday of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday commemorates the institution of the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Ordination, and begins the Paschal Triduum. |
| Good Friday Good Friday is the Friday within Holy Week, and is traditionally a time of fasting and penance, commemorating the anniversary of Christ's crucifixion and death. For Christians, Good Friday commemorates not just a historical event, but the sacrificial death of Christ, which with the resurrection, comprises the heart of the Christian faith. The Catholic Catechism states this succinctly: Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men (CCC 1992). This is based on the words of St. Paul: "[Believers] are justified freely by God's grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood... (Romans 3:24-25, NAB). The customs and prayers associated with Good Friday typically focus on the theme of Christ's sacrificial death for our sins. |
| Holy Saturday Holy Saturday, Sabbatum Sanctum in Latin, is the last day of Holy Week, and the 40th day of the traditional fast of Lent, although Lent ends liturgically on the evening of Holy Thursday. The evening of Holy Saturday begins the third and final day of the Paschal Triduum. In the Western Church, no Masses are said on Holy Saturday, and the day is essentially a liturgically sparse time of reflection upon Christ's death and burial in anticipation of the Great Vigil of Easter (Paschal Vigil). The vigil usually begins the night of Holy Saturday, lasting until Easter morning. Very little happens on Holy Saturday, that is until the beginning of the Great Paschal Vigil. There is deep symbolism upon which we can reflect on Holy Saturday. On this day, the Church waits at the Lord's tomb, and meditates on His Passion and Death and His descent into Hell. With prayer and fasting we await His glorious Easter resurrection. Mary is also a Holy Saturday symbol. According to Catholic tradition, Mary represents the entire body of the Church. As she awaited in faith for the victorious triumph of Her Son over death on the first Holy Saturday, so we too wait with Mary on the present Holy Saturday. This faithful and prayerful symbolic waiting has been called the Ora della Madre or Hour of the Mother. |
| Easter Sunday But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has risen, as he said (Matthew 28:5-6b, RSV). Every gospel provides an account of the resurrection, which makes perfect sense, because the bodily resurrection of Jesus is and has been the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Saint Paul makes this clear when he reminds us that our faith is in vain without Christ's resurrection from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:14). Easter (also called "Pascha" or some variant by most non-English speaking Christians) celebrates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, and it is the greatest and oldest feast of the Church. Even the term "Pascha" is borrowed from the Jewish word for "Passover," and Easter is calculated based on the lunar calendar (all other feasts are on the solar calendar). These facts show the ancient, probably Apostolic, origins of Easter. We even possess a baptismal liturgy of Easter dating to the mid-third century. Traditionally, the Pascha celebration began with a lengthy vigil, the "mother of all vigils" according to St. Augustine. The whole history of salvation is retold during the vigil, through scripture and liturgy. At the Easter Vigil (in the West) three traditions developed: the baptism of new converts, lighting of the paschal candle, and the blessing of the new fire (taken from the Jewish blessing of the lamp on the eve of the Sabbath). The new fire is often processed into the Church to light the Paschal candle. Eucharist is then celebrated in the morning hours, being also the first Eucharist of new converts. In general, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Vigil services consist of variants of this ancient model. The West also celebrates the octave of Easter. These eight days are all solemnities in the Western liturgical calendar. Actually, these days even take precedence over other solemnities that can fall within the Octave of Easter, including the Annunciation. Easter follows Holy Week, and is the third and final day of the Paschal Triduum, the three day period which began on the evening of Holy Thursday. The evening prayer of Easter Day officially ends the Triduum. The Triduum contains the heart of the Christian faith: Jesus' death and resurrection. Easter is not just a day, but an entire fifty day season, called Eastertide, marked by joyful festivities and liturgical fullness. You might hear "Christ is Risen!" and "Alleluia!" frequently during the Easter season, because we are joyfully celebrating Christ's bodily resurrection. The Feast of the Ascension falls within Easter season. The 50-day season of Easter runs up to, and includes, the Feast of Pentecost. |
| Paschal Triduum The Paschal Triduum, also called the Holy Triduum or Easter Triduum, begins the evening of Holy Thursday, and ends the evening of Easter Day. It commemorates the heart of our faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
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