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Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024
Christmas Mass Schedule
December 24: Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord.
4:30 PM English;
6 PM español;
8 PM at Immaculate Conception Mission.
December 25: Christmas Day.
7 AM
9 AM
January 1: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
7 AM, OLPH
9 AM OLPH
12 PM at Immaculate Conception Mission
Holy Week Schedule
Spy Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Tenebrae Office of Darkness, 7:30 PM
Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, April 6, 2023
No morning Mass. Adoration Chapel closes before the Mass begins.
7 PM Bilingual Mass, Procession, and Stripping of the Altar followed by Reserve Chapel Adoration till midnight
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion and Death, April 7, 2023
Stations of the Cross, 12 PM, Alpha and Omega Garden, Immaculate Conception Mission
Good Friday Liturgy, 3 PM
Procession of Madre Dolorosa, Spanish, 7 PM
Holy Saturday, April 8, 2023
Easter Vigil, 8 PM, begins in front of the Parish Hall for the New Paschal Fire and the New Paschal Candle, procession into the church, chanting of the Exsultet, bilingual.
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord, April 9, 2023
9 AM, English Mass
1 PM, Traditional Latin Mass
Passiontide and Holy Week Schedule
Friday, April 8, 2022
The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Traditional Latin Mass following Stations of the Cross, ~7:30 PM
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Palm Sunday Passion of Our Lord
Anticipated Mass: Saturday, April 8th, 5:30 pm Spanish Mass
Solemn Procession, 9 AM, beginning in front of the Parish Hall
Traditional Latin Mass, 1 PM
Spy Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Tenebrae Office of Darkness, 7 PM
Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, April 14, 2022
No morning Mass. Adoration Chapel closes before the Mass begins.
7 PM Bilingual Mass, Procession, and Stripping of the Altar followed by Reserve Chapel Adoration till midnight
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion and Death, April 15, 2022
Stations of the Cross, 12 PM, Alpha and Omega Garden, Immaculate Conception Mission
Good Friday Liturgy, Traditional Latin Mass, 3 PM
Procession of Madre Dolorosa, Spanish, 7 PM
Holy Saturday, April 16, 2022
Easter Vigil, 8 PM, begins in front of the Parish Hall for the New Paschal Fire and the New Paschal Candle, procession into the church, chanting of the Exsultet, bilingual.
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord, April 17, 2022
9 AM, English Mass
1 PM, Traditional Latin Mass
May Month Spiritual Bouquet
We have spiritually adopted a diocese in China: Zhengding Diocese. For the month of May, our parish family will be gathering a spiritual bouquet of prayers, Masses, penances, Holy Hours to assist the Bishop and his flock. Below is a chart to use to keep track of your family’s offerings.
| Prayer/Sacrifice | Total for Month of May |
| Rosary | |
| Mass/Communion | |
| Litany of St. Joseph | |
| Visits to Blessed Sacrament | |
| Chaplet of Divine Mercy | |
| Daily Prayer to Our Lady of China | |
| Stations of the Cross | |
| Other Novenas | |
| Acts of Penance | |
| Other Prayers |
Divine Mercy Sunday Plenary Indulgence
Divine Mercy celebration will begin at 3 pm with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Confessions will be heard during the Holy Hour. The Divine Mercy Chaplet will be chanted during Holy Hour. All are invited to avail themselves of this great gift of Divine Mercy on the Octave of Easter. For the conditions in obtaining the plenary indulgence, please read the following decree from the Holy See. The conditions are underlined for emphasis.
| Duty of honouring Divine Mercy The faithful with deep spiritual affection are drawn to commemorate the mysteries of divine pardon and to celebrate them devoutly. They clearly understand the supreme benefit, indeed the duty, that the People of God have to praise Divine Mercy with special prayers and, at the same time, they realize that by gratefully performing the works required and satisfying the necessary conditions, they can obtain spiritual benefits that derive from the Treasury of the Church. “The paschal mystery is the culmination of this revealing and effecting of mercy, which is able to justify man, to restore justice in the sense of that salvific order which God willed from the beginning in man, and through man, in the world” (Encyclical Letter Dives in misericordia, n. 7). It is God’s Mercy that grants supernatural sorrow and resolution to amend Indeed, Divine Mercy knows how to pardon even the most serious sins, and in doing so it moves the faithful to perceive a supernatural, not merely psychological, sorrow for their sins so that, ever with the help of divine grace, they may make a firm resolution not to sin any more. Such spiritual dispositions undeniably follow upon the forgiveness of mortal sin when the faithful fruitfully receive the sacrament of Penance or repent of their sin with an act of perfect charity and perfect contrition, with the resolution to receive the Sacrament of Penance as soon as they can. Indeed, Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us in the parable of the Prodigal Son that the sinner must confess his misery to God saying: “Father I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son” (Lk 15,18-19), realizing that this is a work of God, “for [he] was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found” (Lk 15,32). Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday And so with provident pastoral sensitivity and in order to impress deeply on the souls of the faithful these precepts and teachings of the Christian faith, the Supreme Pontiff, John Paul II, moved by the consideration of the Father of Mercy, has willed that the Second Sunday of Easter be dedicated to recalling with special devotion these gifts of grace and gave this Sunday the name, “Divine Mercy Sunday” (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Decree Misericors et miserator, 5 May 2000).The Gospel of the Second Sunday of Easter narrates the wonderful things Christ the Lord accomplished on the day of the Resurrection during his first public appearance: “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you’. When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the discples were glad to see the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you’. And then he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained'” (Jn 20,19-23). Plenary Indulgence To ensure that the faithful would observe this day with intense devotion, the Supreme Pontiff himself established that this Sunday be enriched by a plenary indulgence, as will be explained below, so that the faithful might receive in great abundance the gift of the consolation of the Holy Spirit. In this way, they can foster a growing love for God and for their neighbour, and after they have obtained God’s pardon, they in turn might be persuaded to show a prompt pardon to their brothers and sisters. Pardon of others who sin against us Thus the faithful will more closely conform to the spirit of the Gospel, receiving in their hearts the renewal that the Second Vatican Council explained and introduced: “Mindful of the words of the Lord: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another’ (Jn 13,35), Christians can yearn for nothing more ardently than to serve the men of this age with an ever growing generosity and success…. It is the Father’s will that we should recognize Christ our brother in the persons of all men and love them with an effective love, in word and in deed (Pastoral Constitution, Gaudium et spes, n. 93). Three conditions for the plenary indulgence And so the Supreme Pontiff, motivated by an ardent desire to foster in Christians this devotion to Divine Mercy as much as possible in the hope of offering great spiritual fruit to the faithful, in the Audience granted on 13 June 2002, to those Responsible for the Apostolic Penitentiary, granted the following Indulgences: a plenary indulgence, granted under the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of Supreme Pontiff) to the faithful who, on the Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, in any church or chapel, in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin, take part in the prayers and devotions held in honour of Divine Mercy, or who, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed or reserved in the tabernacle, recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you!”); A partial indulgence, granted to the faithful who, at least with a contrite heart, pray to the merciful Lord Jesus a legitimately approved invocation. For those who cannot go to church or the seriously ill In addition, sailors working on the vast expanse of the sea; the countless brothers and sisters, whom the disasters of war, political events, local violence and other such causes have been driven out of their homeland; the sick and those who nurse them, and all who for a just cause cannot leave their homes or who carry out an activity for the community which cannot be postponed, may obtain a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday, if totally detesting any sin, as has been said before, and with the intention of fulfilling as soon as possible the three usual conditions, will recite the Our Father and the Creed before a devout image of Our Merciful Lord Jesus and, in addition, pray a devout invocation to the Merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you).If it is impossible that people do even this, on the same day they may obtain the Plenary Indulgence if, with a spiritual intention they are united with those carrying out the prescribed practice for obtaining the Indulgence in the usual way and offer to the Merciful Lord a prayer and the sufferings of their illness and the difficulties of their lives, with the resolution to accomplish as soon as possible the three conditions prescribed to obtain the plenary indulgence. This decree may be read in full at the Holy See’s website, please click here. |
Holy Week & Easter
Wednesday, March 31, 7 pm: TENEBRAE SERVICE OF DARKNESS
Thursday, April 1, 7 pm: THURSDAY OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (BI-LINGUAL) followed by Translation of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose, Stripping of the Altar, Adoration until midnight ending with Compline.
No morning Mass
Friday, April 2, 12 noon: GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE & PRE-SANCTIFIED MASS (TRADITIONAL LATIN)
followed by procession.
No morning Mass. No Stations of the Cross
7 pm: MADRE DOLOROSA Procession and Devotion (en español)
Saturday, April 3, 8 pm: EASTER VIGIL (BI-LINGUAL)
No morning Mass.
Sunday, April 4: EASTER DAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
9 AM English Mass
11 AM Traditional Latin
Sunday, April 11: DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
Regular Sunday Schedule.
3 pm: DIVINE MERCY HOLY HOUR AND CONFESSIONS
St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
Thank you to all who have bought tickets for the dinner plates.
On March 17th, come to the Parish Hall to pick up your dinner from 4:30 – 6:30 pm.
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