Ash Wednesday and Lent

For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.

Members of the Eastern Catholic Churches are to observe the particular law of their own sui iuris Church.

If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy Saturday night) as the "paschal fast" to honor the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus, and to prepare ourselves to share more fully and to celebrate more readily his Resurrection.

Ash Wednesday - March 5, 2025
9:00 am Mass  with Ashes (English/ Upper Church)
12:15 pm Liturgy of the Word with Ashes (English/Upper Church)
 There will be no communion, just the readings since this service is shared with Trinity Episcopal Church in Milford.
5:30 pm Mass with Ashes (English/ Upper Church)
6:30 pm Mass with Ashes (Portuguese/ Upper Church)
8:00 pm  Mass with Ashes (Spanish/ Upper Church)

Daily Mass Held in the Lower Church
9:00 am   Monday thru  Friday (Stations immediately following on Fridays)
 
Portuguese Mass: 
Wednesday & Friday at 7:00 pm in the Lower Church
Followed by Stations of the Cross after Friday Mass (Lower Church)
 
Spanish Mass: every Monday in the lower church
Stations of the Cross in Spanish, every Friday at 8 pm in the Upper Church

• Every Friday during Lent
  • after the 9 am Morning Mass  (in English in Lower Church)
  • Fridays through Lent at 6:30 pm  (in English in Main Church)
• Fridays after 7:00 pm Mass
  • (in Portuguese in the Lower Church)
• Fridays at 8:00 pm
  • (in Spanish in the Upper Church)