Monday, April 18, 2011

Triduum Liturgy Schedule...

With Holy Week already well underway, here's the liturgy schedule for the Triduum (the three great days):

Holy Thursday

7:00 p.m.     Mass of the Lord's Supper
                        (Personal prayer and Adoration of the Blessed
                          Sacrament to follow Mass until midnight).

Good Friday

11:00 a.m.   Children's Prayer Service
3:00 p.m.     Solemn Good Friday Liturgy with Holy Communion
                       (following this service, Confessions will be heard
                             until 5 p.m., or longer if necessary.)
7:00 p.m.     Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday

8:00 p.m.     Solemn Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday

10:00 a.m.   Easter Sunday Mass


"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away.  In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night.  What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in the semblance of the gardener god walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn."      - G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man