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Lenten Schedule
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Follow the normal schedule for Mass and Confession with the following additions:
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Ash Wednesday, February 13
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Mass & Distribution of Ashes
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6:30am, 8:30am
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Parish Morning Prayer
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8:20am
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Distribution of Ashes Service
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12:10pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm
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Fridays of Lent
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Stations of the Cross
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7:00pm
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Confessions
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Wednesday March 20
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Parish Penitential Service
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7:00pm to 9:00pm
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With individual Reconciliation
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Every Saturday
And also by appoinment
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3:30pm to 4:30pm
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Holy Week Schedule
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday will follow the normal weekday schedule.
The remainder of the week will be celebrated exclusively as follows:
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Holy Thursday, March 28
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Parish Morning Prayer
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8:20am
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Mass of the Lord's Supper
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7:00pm
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Good Friday, March 29
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Parish Morning Prayer
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8:20am
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Solemnization of the Lord's Passion
Veneration of the Cross, Eucharist and Visitation
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3:00pm to 6:00pm
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Office of Tenebrae
followed by private prayer
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7:00pm
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Holy Saturday, March 30
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Parish Morning Prayer
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8:20am
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The Easter Vigil
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7:30pm
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Easter Sunday, March 31
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Easter Masses
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8:00am
10:30am (children's Mass)
12:00 noon
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Church Rules for Lenten Fasting
and Abstinence are contained in
Canon Law.
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
are days of fast and abstinence.
All Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence.
Abstinence means that you do not eat meat
or meat products.
During days of Fast, one full meal
and two smaller meals are permitted.
The combined size of the smaller meals
must not equal the single full meal.
Also, there is no eating between meals.
Fasting References in the
Catechism of the Catholic Church
As Church precept #5: par 2043.
As expression of penance: par 1434, 1438.
Jesus' fast and the Lenten season: par 538-40.
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