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We are a worshipping people, centered in our celebration of the Eucharist, |
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| Sunday Mass Schedule |
2010 Holy Week Schedule 7:30 AM (Quiet Mass) 9:30 AM (Choir) 12:00 Noon (Signed for Hearing Impaired) |
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| Saturday Mass |
8:00 AM 4:00 PM (Vigil Traditional Mass) |
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| Weekday Mass Schedule |
Daily: 7:30 AM and 12:10 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM |
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| Holy Days of Obligation |
Vigil: 4:00 PM Holy Day: 7:30 AM, 12:00 Noon and 7 PM |
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| Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help | Monday: 8:00 AM | ||||
| Devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal | Saturday: 8:00 AM & 3:30 PM | ||||
| Reconciliation |
Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM & 11:30 AM Saturday: 3:00 - 3:45 PM and by appointment |
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| Anointing of the Sick | A Mass of Anointing will be celebrated at the 12:10 daily Mass on the FIRST WEDNESDAY of each month. All who suffer from an acute or chronic physical, emotional, or spiritual illness, including addiction, or are awaiting surgery or recovering from it, are encouraged to attend. For cases of emergency, please call the parish office day or night. | ||||
| Stations of the Cross | Fridays of Lent at 3:00 p.m. | ||||
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Sacramental Liturgies Please Note: Those wishing to celebrate the communal sacraments (Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, and Matrimony), but who do not regularly worship with our parish community, must first meet with one of the friars or staff. In keeping with Church law, in some situations, they may encounter a delay or postponement of the sacrament. |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 January 1 starts the New Year on the secular calendar, but the Church uses a different calendar system called the liturgical calendar. The new year of the liturgical calendar begins on the First Sunday of Advent. The Church’s calendar has a different date for a new year because it also marks time in a distinct way. It is a way for us to encounter Christ every day of the year. Our secular calendar is solar-based. That means each day is measured by how long it takes for the earth to rotate once around on its axis, and a year by how long it takes for it to go once around the sun. On a secular calendar special days (a birthday or anniversary) always fall on the same day each year. Our liturgical calendar is both solar– and lunar-based. So some feasts on that calendar always fall on the same date, like Christmas; (December 25: Advent always begins four Sundays before Christmas), All Saints (November 1), and the Immaculate Conception (December 8). Other feasts fall on a different date each year because they are dependent on the cycles of the moon. Most of these “movable” feasts are calculated by the date of Easter, which also moves. This is because the date of Easter is based on both the solar and lunar calendar. Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring. To show how important Easter is, we calculate many dates from it: Ash Wednesday (seven Wednesdays before), the First Sunday of lent (six Sundays before), and Pentecost (seven Sundays after Easter). Like the secular calendar, the liturgical calendar has seasons. The two main seasons are Easter and Christmas. Each of these seasons is preceded by a season of preparation: the weeks of Lent prepare us for Easter, and the weeks of Advent prepare us for Christmas. In between the major seasons is another “season” called Ordinary Time. It’s called “ordinary” not because it’s not as interesting as the others but because we count its Sundays and weeks (“ordinal” means “numbered”). When we mark the different feasts and seasons of the liturgical calendar,
the mystery of Christ—everything he was , is, and will be—is unfolded like a
relationship with a good friend that reveals deeper insights and meaning
throughout the days of the year. |
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