2012 Lent and Easter

During Lent we are called as good Catholics to fast and abstain from meat. We are called to pray more; the Church offers us spiritual retreats, Stations of the Cross every Friday at 7:00 PM followed by Movie & Scripture, daily and Sunday Masses. We are called to go to confession (to be forgiven we need first to forgive). We are called to be more charitable at home, at school, at work and in the streets. We are called to show through our good example our Catholic promises of LOVE.

March 2nd  First Friday Adoration and Stations of the Cross with healing Mass: 7pm

March 3rd  Burmese Lenten Retreat 10am-7pm Scanlan Hall

March 10 Annual STYM Crab feed: 7pm in Carroll Hall

March 18 Brazilian Lenten Retreat -in Carroll hall

March 29 Chrism Mass at St Mary's Cathedral at 5:30pm (all parishes are invited)

March 30  Live Stations of the Cross (Indoor) at 7pm

March 31 Parish Lenten Day Retreat in Scanlan Hall starts at 10:00 AM-ends with 5pm Vigil Mass.

CONFESSIONS: Before and during Masses on Sunday, Penitential Rite: Friday March 23  at 6:30 before Stations of the Cross, confessions continue during the stations.

April 1st: PALM SUNDAY: schedule of Masses as each Sunday of the year

April 5th: HOLY THURSDAY: Caena Domini 7: 00 PM English; 9:00 PM Arabic

April 6th: GOOD FRIDAY: 

 12:00 NOON: Outdoor Stations of the Cross at STM Church 

 1:00 PM: Passion of Christ, ENGLISH at STM Church

9:00 PM: Passion of Christ, ARABIC at STM Church

April  7th HOLY SATURDAY:

            7:30 PM Ceremony of the Light and Holy Mass of the Resurrection, ENGLISH

            10:30 PM Ceremony of the Light and Holy Mass of the Resurrection, ARABIC  

April 8th: EASTER SUNDAY:  8:00 AM Portuguese Mass

                                           10:00 AM English Mass

                                              2:00PM  Burmese Mass

                                                NO ARABIC MASS

                                             8:00 PM English Mass

April 15 at 8:00 PM “Salubong”

Things to remind &  to teach your family about:

(Movie & Scripture after the Stations of the Cross on Fridays)

 Abstinence: Everyone fourteen year of age and older is bound to abstain from meat on ASH WEDNESDAY, the FRIDAYS of Lent and GOOD FRIDAY.  Fast: Every eighteen years old and older but under the age of sixty, is bound to fast on ASH WEDNESDAY and GOOD FRIDAY. On these two days, the law of fast allows only one meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some little food during the day. So long as this does not constitute another full meal. Drinking liquid is allowed. People are called to fast during all Lent if they can. Going to mass every Sunday, doing acts of charity, forgiveness and good deeds of virtue are the obligation of a daily life a Catholic especially during Lent.