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Lent and Holy Week Schedule

Lent and Holy Week Schedule

Additional Lent Confessions

Monday March 18: 11:30am-12 and 6:30pm-7pm

Wednesday March 20: 11:30am-12 and 6:30pm-7pm

Friday March 22: 11:30-12 and 6:30pm-7pm

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Saturday March 23: Mass with Palms at 5pm and 7pm

Sunday March 24: Mass with Palms at 7am, 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm Spanish, 5pm, 7pm

Mass with Palms at Holy Cross Academy: 8:30am and 10:30am

Monday of Holy Week

Confessions 11:30am-12 and 6:30pm-7:30pm

Tuesday of Holy Week

Confessions ONLY at  6:30pm-7:30pm

Wednesday of Holy Week

Confessions 11:30am-12 and 6:30pm-7:30pm

Holy Thursday

Morning Prayer and Office of Reading in the Church 8am

7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

9pm-11:45pm Adoration in the PLC

11:45pm Night Prayer in the Church

Good Friday

12-2:30pm The Tre Ore AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

3pm The Passion and Veneration of the Holy Cross AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

6:30pm Stations of the Cross AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

7:15pm Stations of the Cross in Spanish AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

8pm Night Prayer in the Church

Holy Saturday

No Confessions on Holy Saturday

8am Morning Prayer and Office of Reading AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

11am Blessing of Easter Food in the Church

8:30pm The Easter Vigil AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

Easter Sunday

8am Mass AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

10:15am Mass celebrated by Most Rev. Michael Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

12:30pm Bilingual Mass AT FREDERICKSBURG EXPO CENTER

 

From Our Pastor

From Our Pastor

Dear Folks,

The Catechism, in teaching about the 8th commandment has some interesting things to say about our vocation to bear witness to God who is truth and wills the truth. We can often identify the sin of detraction (disclosing another’s faults without good reason) and of calumny (harming another with false accusations). Notice in detraction, what we share is true; while in calumny it is false. Gossip can be in either one of these species of sins.

However, there is another sin, that I believe is in the top five of modern day sins: rash judgment. One is guilty of rash judgment “who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor…”

This is what we do all day on the internet. If this sin were to be eradicated, facebook and twitter would go out of business! Or be radically transformed!

So what can one do to avoid this sin? One should be careful to interpret insofar as possible his neighbor’s thoughts, words, and deeds in a favorable way. This takes practice. Lots of practice. The Catechism quotes the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius on this point:

“Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another’s statement than to condemn it. But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it. And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love. If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved.”

Please take one person who annoyed you today. And looking back, remembering their words and/or deeds, find a way to give the most favorable possible interpretation to them.

Or to quote Our Lord, “The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you.” (Mk 4:25)

pax,

Father John Mosimann

March 17, 2024