Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation in a communal celebration at Sacred Heart on Tuesday, March 23 at 7pm.
Prayer, song, examination of conscience, reflection, individual confession, absolution and thanksgiving in a painless setting. Whether you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly or rarely – come.
A Lenten Evening of Reflection will be held on Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 7pm. The guest speaker for this evening will be Sr. Paula Robillard, SSJ. Sr. Paula is the Springfield, MA Diocesan Director of Faith Formation and has led numerous retreats and retreat days.
Please plan on setting aside this evening to pause and reflect (and be refreshed) on your Lenten journey with Sr. Paula and the rest of our parish community.
Refreshments will be served by the Caregivers.
Let us receive the announcement of Lent with joy!
For if our forefather Adam had kept the fast,
We would not have been deprived of paradise.
O Lord, who took flesh from the Virgin
in the fullness of time,
Call me back and restore me to Eden!
– Byzantine Vespers
We begin our celebration of Lent with the imposition of ashes on
You thumbed grit
into my furrowed brow,
marking me
with the sign of mortality,
the dust of last year’s palms.
The cross you traced
seared, smudged skin,
and I recalled other ashes
etched
into my heart
by those who love too little
or not at all.
– Elizabeth-Anne Vanek in Extraordinary Time
(Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence)
Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation in a communal celebration at Sacred Heart on Tuesday, March 24 at 7pm, or at Saint Maurice on Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm.
Prayer, song, examination of conscience, reflection, individual confession, absolution and thanksgiving in a painless setting. Whether you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly or rarely – come.
Our Lenten observances for this year begin on February 25, 2009, Ash Wednesday.
Services include
For Catholics, Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence.
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