Holy Week and Easter

HOLY WEEK

Palm Sunday Masses [April 13]:  4:15 pm Vigil, 7 am, 9 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, 5:15 pm
Monday of Holy Week [April 14]:  7 am Mass, 11 am Confessions, 12 pm Mass
Tuesday of Holy Week [April 15]:  7 am Mass, 11 am Confessions, 12 pm Mass
Wednesday of Holy Week [April 16]:  7 am Mass, 11 am Confessions, 12 pm Mass
 12:30 pm – 6:30pm Exposition & Simple Reposition;  6 pm Confessions;  7 pm Tenebrae**
Holy Thursday [April 17]:  8 am Office of Reading; Morning Prayer; 11 am – 12 pm Confessions;  
6 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper;  7:30 pm - 9 pm Exposition;  9 pm Night Prayer
Good Friday [April 18]:  8 am Office of Reading, Morning Prayer; 11 am Stations of the Cross;
 11 am – 2:45 pm Confessions & Rosary;  3 pm Service of the Passion of the Lord
Holy Saturday [April 19]:  8 am Office of Reading, Morning Prayer; 
 8:30 am - 9:30 am Decorating Church;  11 am - 12 pm Confessions & Rosary 

EASTER

Easter Vigil: 8:30 pm
Easter Day Masses: 7 am, 9 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm,  (No 5:15 pm Mass)

**The Tenebrae service combines Matins (Night Prayer) and Lauds (Morning Prayer) of Holy Thursday, featuring congregational chanting of many psalms and canticles. At the center of the liturgy is a solemn intoning of the Lamentations of Jeremiah followed by choral responsories — and at the end, the calamitous strepitus (when the earth convulses at the death of Jesus). 
 
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. The norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.