Holy Week Schedule

As our season of Lent quickly draws to a close, let us be reminded that God's creative and life giving presence is always at work, bringing light out of darkness and new life out of death.  We hope you can join us as we celebrate the most important time of the Church year.  May God bless you and your families - we hope you have a blessed Holy Week and Easter season!

Saturday, April 8th

3:15-3:45PM: Confessions

4PM: Mass (English)
Sunday, April 9th

7AM: Mass (English)

8:30AM: Mass (Portuguese)

10:30AM: Mass (English)

12PM: Mass (Spanish)

5:30PM: Mass (English)

Thursday, April 13th

9AM: Office of Readings/Morning Prayer

7PM: Mass of the Lord's Supper (Tri-lingual)
After 7PM Service until midnight: Adoration

Friday, April 14th

9AM: Office of Readings/Morning Prayer
10AM: Living Stations of the Cross @ La Salette (Spanish)
12PM: Stations of the Cross (English/Portuguese)
3PM: Celebration of the Lord's Passion (English)

3PM: Stations of the Cross @ SJE (English)

7PM: Celebration of the Lord's Passion (Spanish/Portuguese)

7PM: Celebration of the Lord's Passion @ SJE (English)

Saturday, April 15th

9AM: Office of Readings/Morning Prayer
3-4PM: Confessions
**NO 4PM MASS HERE AT SVdP OR AT SJE**

7:30PM: Easter Vigil (Tri-lingual)
Sunday, April 16th

7AM: Mass (English)

8:30AM: Mass (Portuguese)

10:30AM: Mass (English)

12PM: Mass (Spanish)

**NO 5:30PM MASS HERE AT SVdP**

Annual First Friday Devotion

SJE Parish Fish Fry

Please see flyer below - for more information please click here. 

 

Annual First Saturday Devotion

Dispensation Granted for St. Patrick's Day

This year, the celebration of St. Patrick’s feast day on March 17^th falls on a Friday during Lent.

 

In consideration of the culinary traditions of this feast and in response to a number of requests, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., has granted to Catholics in the Fall River Diocese a dispensation from the Lenten rule of abstaining from meat on that day.

Catholics are asked to fast and practice abstinence in Lent as means of penance to unite in the suffering and death of Christ, and to prepare for His resurrection on Easter.  In granting the dispensation, Bishop da Cunha encourages those who choose to make use of it to carry out some other sacrificial act or work of charity in keeping with the spirit of the Lenten season.

Ash Wednesday Mass Schedule

**Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent!**

Please note the image above.  The ashen cross blending into palm leaves not only shows the connection between Ash Wednesday at the start of Lent and Palm Sunday as we enter into Holy Week, but also symbolizes how the blessed palms that fill the church on Palm Sunday will be burnt to provide the ashes for the following Ash Wednesday.  Blessings as we enter into the season of Lent!

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MASSES @ SVdP

Wednesday, March 1:  9AM, 5:30PM, & 7PM (Spanish/Portuguese) Masses


MASSES @ SJE

Wednesday, March 1:  7AM, 8AM (School), 4:30PM, & 7PM Masses

Annual First Friday & Saturday Devotions