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Penance Service for Lent

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:16:07 +0000

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.

Lenten Evening of Reflection

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:09:49 +0000

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.

Ash Wednesday

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:42:21 +0000

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

Wednesday at Noon
Wednesday at 5:30pm

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)

Penance Services

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:02:21 +0000

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.

Ash Wednesday

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:00:17 +0000

Our Lenten observances for this year begin on February 25, 2009, Ash Wednesday.

Services include

Mass with Distribution of Ashes at 9am,
Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes at 4pm (convenient for our faith formation students) and
Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes at 7pm.

For Catholics, Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence.