LENTEN LITURGICAL INFORMATION

 

 

    Ash Wednesday Masses & Prayer Service Schedule

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

7:00 a.m. Mass – Holy Trinity Church

8:00 a.m. Mass – Sacred Heart Church

12 Noon Prayer Service with Distribution of Ashes—Sacred Heart Church

4:00 p.m. Mass – Holy Trinity Church

6:00 p.m. Mass – Sacred Heart Church

Note:  Ashes will be distributed within all Masses

 

Wednesday Morning Masses During Lent

8:00 a.m. – Sacred Heart Church

Beginning February 24 through March 31 in Holy Week

 

Stations of the Cross

Every Wednesday at 6 p.m. – Holy Trinity Church

Beginning February 24

 

Every Friday at 6 p.m. – Sacred Heart Church

Beginning February 19

 

Confessions will be heard each Wednesday evening during Lent

Sacred Heart – 7:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Beginning February 24

 

Operation Rice Bowl

With the Lenten season, our parishes will be participating in Operation Rice Bowl.  As part of our community’s observance of Lent, we ask all families to participate in Catholic Relief Services’ Operation Rice Bowl, a program of prayer, fasting, learning, and giving.  Please be sure to take home a Rice Bowl packet and follow this simple yet powerful Lenten practice.  The contributions made during Lent through Operation Rice Bowl support Catholic Relief Services’ development projects in over 50 countries.  Twenty-five percent of all funds collected remain here in the Archdiocese and are used to purchase food to stock local emergency food cupboards and soup kitchens.

 

Guidelines for Fasting and Abstinence and Other Acts of Penance

Lent 2010

The Bishops of the United States prescribe, as minimal obligation, that all persons who are fourteen years of age and older are bound to abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010, on all the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday.  Further, all persons eighteen years of age and older, up to and including their fifty-ninth birthday, are bound to fast by limiting themselves to a single full meal on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday, while the other two meals on those days are to be light.

 

All the faithful are encouraged, when possible to participate at Mass and to receive the Holy Eucharist daily, to celebrate frequently the Sacrament of Penance, to undertake spiritual reading, especially the study of Sacred Scriptures, and to participate in parish Lenten devotions as well as Lenten education programs.  Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is especially recommended.

 

All are encouraged to participate in “Operation Rice Bowl” which has aided countless hungry persons here in the Archdiocese as well as throughout our nation and our world.

 

Special Note:  Because the Feast of Saint Joseph will be on a Friday in Lent this year, the obligation to abstain from meat does not bind on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph on Friday, March 19, 2010.