HOLY WEEK CEREMONIES & THE EASTER TRIDUUM

 

PARISH CHURCH:

SUNDAY 1ST APRIL:   

• Palm Sunday – Palms blessed at all Masses (please bring Palms with you). Gospel account of the Passion of Jesus will be read.

 

MONDAY 2ND APRIL:   

• Preparation for Confession:  7.30 p.m. A Redemptorist Priest will lead the Celebration and a number of Priests will be hearing confession.

 

MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY 2ND, 3RD, 4TH:  

• Masses in Parish Church: 8.30 a.m. 10 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.
• Morning Prayer at 8 a.m.
• (No evening Mass on Monday 2nd at 7.30 p.m. due to Penitential Rite)

 

WEDNESDAY 4TH:   

• CHRISM MASS in Cobh at 7.30 p.m. It is hoped that priests & people from every parish in the diocese attend this Mass. So if you can go, you will be very welcome.

 

HOLY THURSDAY:

• MORNING PRAYER & BIBLE READING AT 10 A.M.
• MASS AT 5 P.M.:  This year’s 1st Holy Communion classes will participate in this Mass. A boy’s choir from C.B.S. Primary under direction of James Sherlock will sing.

 

• All Eucharistic Ministers are asked to be present at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday to renew their commitment. They are asked to line up at the sanctuary steps during the Prayers of the Faithful.

 

• Trocaire Boxes can be handed in at the Church Door on Holy Thursday & will be presented at the Offertory of the Mass.

 

• MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER AT 7.30 P.M.: followed by Procession to the Altar of Repose.
• ADORATION OF THE LORD at the Altar of Repose until 12 Midnight.
• CONDUCTED HOLY HOUR OF PRAYER:  11p.m. to 12 midnight.
• The Perpetual Adoration closes on Wednesday at 7 p.m. & resumes again after the 12 noon Mass on Easter Sunday.

 

GOOD FRIDAY:

• A DAY OF FAST & ABSTINENCE (We are to abstain from eating meat & to fast in honour of the Lord’s Suffering).
• Good Friday:  Morning Prayer & Bible reading at 10 a.m.
• CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S PASSION & HOLY COMMUNION:   3 p.m.
• STATIONS OF THE CROSS:   7.30 p.m.
• The usual collection for the Christian Shrines in the Holy Land will be taken up. This is a worthy cause & deserves support.

 

• The Divine Mercy Novena begins on Good Friday & finishes on 2nd Sunday of Easter, April 15th. Special ceremonies in the Church on the day at 2.30 p.m. (Novena leaflets available at the Churches)

 

HOLY SATURDAY:

• Holy Saturday Morning:  Morning Prayer & Bible reading at 10 a.m.
• EASTER VIGIL MASS:   9 p.m. (candles will be provided) Please note that there will be no 7.30 p.m. Mass on Holy Saturday Evening.

 

CONFESSIONS:

Wed, Thur. & Fri.:  4th, 5th & 6th April  12.00 – 1.00 p.m.

Saturday:  7th April   12.00 – 1.00 p.m. & 6.30 – 7.30 p.m.

BALLYGIBLIN & KILLACLUIG:

HOLY THURSDAY:  

• MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER:  7.30 p.m.  
• Adoration until 9 p.m.

 

GOOD FRIDAY:   

• Passion of the Lord & Holy Communion:   3 p.m.
• STATIONS OF THE CROSS:  7.30 p.m.

 

HOLY SATURDAY:  

• EASTER VIGIL:  9 p.m.
• EASTER OFFERINGS for the priests of the parish will be taken up on Holy Saturday night & Easter Sunday morning.

A Lenten Prayer

called the Passion

Dear Lord Jesus, by Your Passion and Resurrection You brought life to the world.  But the glory of the Resurrection came only after the sufferings of the Passion.
You laid down Your life willingly and gave up everything for us.  Your body was broken and fastened to a Cross, Your clothing became the prize of soldiers, Your blood ebbed slowly but surely away, and Your Mother was entrusted to the beloved disciple.  Stretched out on the Cross, deprived of all earthly possessions and human aid, You cried out to Your Father that the end had come.  You had accomplished the work given You,
and You committed into His hands, as a perfect gift, the little life that remained to You.
Lord, teach me to accept all afflictions after the example You have given.  Let me place my death in Yours and my weakness in Your abandonment, Take hold of me with Your love, that same foolish love that knew no limits, and let me offer myself to the Father with You so that I may rise with You to eternal life.

 

 

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for Holy Week

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