Ash Wednesday

Dear Parishioners,

This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. It is the beginning of the Lenten Season. Lent is a time of penance, prayer and meditation.

Through Penance, we realize God’s great mercy and our need for it. Prayer, is our communication with the Lord, our relationship with Him. Meditation, is pondering the mysteries of God and the purpose of the gift He has given us.

Our world is in need of good, holy people to lead and guide by example. All of us are called to holiness and goodness. Through our knowledge of, love for, and relationship with the Lord, we grow in holiness and goodness.

I hope we will take advantage of the Lenten Season to deepen our relationship with the Lord, to grow in holiness and goodness, and to take our proper place in the world as followers of our Savior, Jesus Christ, continuing to make His message and His name known to all, by our example.

Below, please find the schedule for Ash Wednesday and the rules for Fast and Abstinence. I pray that Lent will truly be a time of grace for all of us.

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino

 

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Ash Wednesday Schedule
6:30 AM Mass (Ash Wednesday ONLY)
8:30 AM Mass
12:10 Prayer Service
7:00 PM Mass

Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Wednesday Evenings 7:00 PM
February 21
February 28
March 6
March 13
March 20

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the above dates will begin following the 8:30 AM Mass and continue until 7:00 PM with Stations and Benediction