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Holy Week & Easter Sunday Schedule
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Regulations on fasting a& Abstinence
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.
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Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
As we began Lent, we will enter Holy Week, joining with our brothers and sisters from Trinity Episcopal with whom we share at Covenant. Before weekend Masses, we will gather for the proclamation of the gospel of the Lord's entrance into the holy city followed by the blessing of palms. The service will be held at 12 Noon on Saturday, March 27th at a place to be determined. Please check back here to know where this service will take place.
Our Masses for the weekend will follow our usual Sunday schedule. However, concern for the protocol of social distancing requires advance registration to ensure that we have adequate space for everyone. We will assign seats so that we can make the maximum use of our space to accommodate the largest number of worshippers. Please realize that if you do not register, and all seats are reserved, you will not be admitted to the service. If you register, please remember to arrive before the scheduled start of Mass since the doors may need to be locked and late arrivals will not be admitted either. This is to provide for the safety and health of all who are part of the service. Your cooperation is appreciate. Use this link to sign up for Masses for Palm Sunday only. -
The following is our parish schedule for the Triduum and Easter Sunday:
The Sacred Triduum
The Sacred Triduum is the most sacred and solemn feast of the Church's year. It begins at sunset on Holy Thursday and marks the end of Lent. It last for three days and involves four separate, distinct, and wholly unique liturgies whose details date the early centuries of the Church's prayer and practice.
Good Friday is not a holy day of obligation. The Church prohibits the celebration of the Mass so that we may feel the separation from the Lord that the disciples did in abandoning him. It is however a day of fast and obligation. Beyond any Lenten practice or discipline that the faithful have kept during the 40 days of Lent they are encouraged to continue the same from after the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Thursday until the celebration of the Resurrection at the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening. On Holy Saturday, Mass may only be given as viaticum to the dying and Mass may not begin before sunset so that it takes place in whole darkness.
Since we are limited to only one liturgy during these days, we invite those who usually attend morning Mass to join us in praying the Liturgy of the Hours at the usual morning time of 9 AM on these days.
- Holy Thursday, April 1, 2021
- 9:00 am Morning Prayer (Upper Church)
- 7:00 pm Tri-Lingual Mass of the Lord's Supper (Upper Church)
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- After Mass-Solemn Adoration in the upper Church until Midnight
- Good Friday, April 2, 2021
- 9:00 am Morning Prayer (Upper Church)
- *11:00 am Living Stations & Communion (Spanish)
- *3:00 pm Passion of the Lord (English) (Upper Church)
- *7:00 pm Portuguese & Brazilian Passion of the Lord (Upper Church)Reserve Here
- Holy Saturday, April 3, 2021
- 9:00 am Morning Prayer (Upper Church)
- *7:30 pm Easter Vigil (Tri-Lingual) (Upper Church)Reserve Here
(Please Note: There are NO confessions or 4:00 pm Mass)Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, April 21, 2019
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7:30 am Mass (English/ Upper Church)
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*9:00 am Mass (Portuguese/ Upper Church)
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*10:30 am Mass (English/ Upper Church)
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*12:00 pm Mass (Spanish /Upper Church)
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(All services will be live-streamed, with the exception of the 7:30am Mass on Sunday. * indicates MilfordTV broadcast)
- Holy Thursday, April 1, 2021