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HOLY WEEK
SCHEDULE
HOLY THURSDAY
MARCH 28th
7:00 P.M– MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER IN
UPPER CHURCH
TRANSFER OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
TO REPOSITORY AND PRIVATE
ADORATION UNTIL 10:00 P.M.
GOOD FRIDAY
MARCH 29th
9:00 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER IN LOWER
CHURCH
12 NOON – 3:00 P.M. PRIVATE ADORATION
IN UPPER CHURCH
3:00 P.M. – GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY
HOLY SATURDAY
MARCH 30th
9:00 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER IN LOWER
7:00 P.M. – EASTER VIGIL MASS IN UPPER
CHURCH
EASTER SUNDAY
MARCH 31st
8:30 A.M. – MASS IN LOWER CHURCH
11:00 A.M. – MASS IN UPPER CHURCH
Today’s Scripture

Thursday, March 28, 2024

In the gospel, the women came to anoint and bury Jesus and found
an empty tomb. They ran to tell
the disciples to announce the
astounding news. It was a difficult
time for everyone. A terrible time. Jesus crucified! The
death of all their hopes and dreams, and the shame that
they had run away, leaving him to suffer and die alone…
except, of course, for his mother and few friends. And yet in
his final agony, Jesus was heard to say from the cross:
“Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” It
was to be his final gesture of self-sacrificing love and service
to us. The Savior of the World, and we are unable to raise a
hand to save him. “Lord have mercy on us all.” A poet once
wrote about the two arms of God: the right arm of Justice,
and Justice must be served, and the left arm of Mercy,
Mercy, that forgives. And when Jesus cries out on the cross,
“Father, forgive them, they know not what they do,” his
Father is left no choice, for his son has asked for mercy and
for forgiveness for us all. Today we do not celebrate Jesus
rising from the dead to go back to some heaven from where
he came. We celebrate something more. Jesus comes to
stay. He comes to share his life with us, not to teach us how
to die and leave us, but how to live and love in this often sad
and weary world. That is why the Father gives His only Son
into our hands, that we might never be alone again, without
his loving care. Jesus knows our aches and pains and all our
sorrows too, our need to love and to be loved, to reach out
and care for one another as he himself has always cared for
us. Jesus has promised us “to be with us always” and we’ll
never be alone again. “Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Please pray for our sick that they may receive God’s healing strength: Teresa Morone, Albert Ferranti, Marisa Della Pia, Dom Dinella, Sarah Wallace, Marie Devlin, James Curci, Susan and Frank Addis, Eileen McClain, Grace Jones, Brian Ligato, Danielle Peters, Marie and Hugh Quigley, Geraldine DiDonato, Pam Casey, Gerri Liberato-Abbott, Louie DiBruno, Michael Cornaglia, Sr., Karen Specht, Angel Scorza, Tom and Linda Sammaritano, Sister Peg, Stephanie Sinex, Shawn Keefe, Maria Dattilo, Ashleigh Leone, Tommy Van Horn Jr., Fr. Casey, Mary Young, Rose Campolongo, Landon Reid, Annette Slattery, Anna Musolino, Joann Auld, Pat Kennedy, Sr. Francine OSF, Constance DeMayo, Robert Federico, Tom Rucci