Holy Week Schedule of events, April 2006

We pray that all of us will experience a holy Lenten season, using this penitential season to grow spiritually. During this season, the Litany will be said or sung at the beginning of each Mass observance. Also, there will be a Lenten study series held each Tuesday, consisting of Evening Prayer, a meatless pot-luck supper, […]

The next All Deanery Parish Mass and Luncheon will be at St. Ignatius, Riverside, on Saturday, 18 February, beginning with Mass at 10 am. The Women’s Prayer Breakfast originally scheduled for Saturday, 28 January, has been postponed due to Bishop Seeland’s illness. Please keep him in your prayers as he recovers and stay tuned for […]

Sunday, 22 January, Rev. Darnell Coleman will preach at the 10 am service to commemorate the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Rev. Coleman is an ordained Baptist minister. This marks the third year he has graciously agreed to speak. The Rev. Paul Wattson, co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, conceived of the […]

The name “Advent” is derived from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming.” Advent is the first season of the Church calendar, starting four Sundays before Christmas. During Advent, the Church prepares for Christ’s Second Coming even as it prepares for the remembrance of his Nativity. Thus, as with Lent, it is a time of preparation and […]