2025 LENTEN CHURCH SCHEDULE
LENTEN WEDNESDAYS (thru April 9):
1:15 PM: Stations of the Cross with our School Children, Upper Church
Lower Chapel/Meeting Area
5 PM: Soup Supper & Reflection
6 PM: Stations of the Cross
6:30 PM: Confessions
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
6 PM: Seder Meal, Parish Hall
Please join us for this special Seder (Passover) Dinner. The Seder Meal is a very commonly celebrated Jewish tradition that tells the story of the Exodus through an interative customary meal.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11
Tenebrae, Upper Church
A Tenebrae is a liturgical service of readings and chants that features distinctive symbolic elements of Christ’s passion and death. Tenebrae means “shadows” or “darkness” in Latin. The service shows the darkness that comes over the earth upon Christ’s death. One of the readings/chants of the service draws from Scripture that “darkness fell” at the death of Christ. Candles are gradually extinguished, and a loud noise -- called a “strepitus” -- at the service’s conclusion symbolizes the chaos following Christ’s death. Tenebrae is designed to serve as a powerful, reflective experience for the faithful ahead of the Easter Triduum. The representation of the darkness of sin and death serve to call the faithful to embrace the light of Christ, who has conquered death.