Holy Week 2024
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Holy Week is a solemn time when we commemorate the Lord's Last Supper, His Passion and Death, and His burial. This all leads up to the joyful celebration of The Lord's Resurrection at Easter. We will be offering some extra devotions and liturgical celebrations this week - please see the schedule below. Wednesday, March 27, is the last day we will offer Confessions prior to Easter, so we encourage all to come to this Sacrament and be renewed for the celebration of the Resurrection!
Our Adoration Chapel will be closed from Thursday, March 28, to Monday, April 1, and will re-open on Tuesday, April 2, after the 8am Mass. *A reminder that Good Friday is a day of abstinence from meat. It is also a day of fasting for adults ages 18 to 59, with exceptions for the sick and pregnant and breastfeeding women. Learn more about fasting on the USCCB website. |
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Saturday, March 23
Confessions: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Vigil Mass: 5:00pm
Palm Sunday, March 24
Masses: 7:00am, 8:00am, *10:00am & 12 Noon
*10am Mass will be Livestreamed
Monday, March 25
Morning Mass: 8am
Confessions: 12 Noon to 2:00pm
Tuesday, March 26
Morning Mass: 8:00am
Wednesday, March 27
Morning Mass: 8:00am
Confessions: 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Adoration Chapel CLOSES at 8pm and will re-open on Tuesday, April 2, after the 8am Mass
Holy Thursday, March 28
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:00pm
Visit to the Repository until 10:00pm
*Adoration Chapel closed; will re-open Tuesday, April 2, after the 8am Mass
Good Friday, March 29
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
“Way of the Cross” Procession through Media: 12 Noon
Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Death: 3:00pm
Stations of the Cross: 7:00pm (No Benediction)
Holy Saturday, March 30
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
Easter Vigil Mass: 7:00pm
**Please note that there are no Confessions or 5:00pm Vigil Mass**
Easter Sunday, March 31
Masses: 7:00am, 8:00am, *10:00am & 12 Noon
*10am Mass will be Livestreamed
Confessions: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Vigil Mass: 5:00pm
Palm Sunday, March 24
Masses: 7:00am, 8:00am, *10:00am & 12 Noon
*10am Mass will be Livestreamed
Monday, March 25
Morning Mass: 8am
Confessions: 12 Noon to 2:00pm
Tuesday, March 26
Morning Mass: 8:00am
Wednesday, March 27
Morning Mass: 8:00am
Confessions: 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Adoration Chapel CLOSES at 8pm and will re-open on Tuesday, April 2, after the 8am Mass
Holy Thursday, March 28
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:00pm
Visit to the Repository until 10:00pm
*Adoration Chapel closed; will re-open Tuesday, April 2, after the 8am Mass
Good Friday, March 29
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
“Way of the Cross” Procession through Media: 12 Noon
Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Death: 3:00pm
Stations of the Cross: 7:00pm (No Benediction)
Holy Saturday, March 30
Morning Prayer: 8:00am (No Mass)
Easter Vigil Mass: 7:00pm
**Please note that there are no Confessions or 5:00pm Vigil Mass**
Easter Sunday, March 31
Masses: 7:00am, 8:00am, *10:00am & 12 Noon
*10am Mass will be Livestreamed
Excerpt from Pope Francis' 2023 Holy Week Reflection
People wonder, "Why is there so much evil in the world -- look, there is evil in the world. Why do inequalities continue to increase and why is that long-awaited peace not arriving? Why are we so attached to war, to hurting one another?" the pope said. "And there is the feeling that times gone by were better and that in the world, perhaps even in the church, things are not going the way they once were."
Such thoughts, [Pope Francis] said, are signs that "hope sometimes seems to be sealed behind the stone of mistrust" just as Jesus was sealed behind the stone of his tomb.
For Jesus' disciples, then and now, the cross is the key to restoring hope.
The cross, "the most terrible instrument of torture," is the greatest sign of God's love, he said. "Having become the tree of life, that wood of death reminds us that God's beginnings often begin with our ends."
"In the black holes of our disappointed expectations," the pope said, God's love fills believers with a hope that never disappoints.
With the hope born of the cross, he said, people can be "healed of the sadness with which we are sick, be healed of the bitterness with which we pollute the church and the world."
Through Jesus' wounds God heals sinful humanity, Pope Francis said.
"We, too, are wounded; who isn't wounded in life?" he said. "Who does not bear the scars of past choices, of misunderstandings, of hurts that stay inside and that we struggle to overcome?"
"God does not hide from our eyes the wounds that have pierced his body and soul. He shows them to show us that a new passage can be opened at Easter: to make of one's wounds holes of light," the pope said, before imagining someone responding, "But, Your Holiness, don't exaggerate."
Pope Francis told the crowd it was not an exaggeration.
"I ask you, what do you do with your wounds, the ones that only you know? You can let them fester in resentment, in sadness, or I can unite them with Jesus' wounds, so that my wounds also become bright," he said.
"Yes, our wounds can become springs of hope when, instead of feeling sorry for ourselves or hiding them, we dry the tears shed by others," the pope said.
The choice, he said, is either to "lick my own wounds" or to reach out "to heal, to help others."
Source: https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/holy-week-time-spring-cleaning-including-spiritually-pope-says
Such thoughts, [Pope Francis] said, are signs that "hope sometimes seems to be sealed behind the stone of mistrust" just as Jesus was sealed behind the stone of his tomb.
For Jesus' disciples, then and now, the cross is the key to restoring hope.
The cross, "the most terrible instrument of torture," is the greatest sign of God's love, he said. "Having become the tree of life, that wood of death reminds us that God's beginnings often begin with our ends."
"In the black holes of our disappointed expectations," the pope said, God's love fills believers with a hope that never disappoints.
With the hope born of the cross, he said, people can be "healed of the sadness with which we are sick, be healed of the bitterness with which we pollute the church and the world."
Through Jesus' wounds God heals sinful humanity, Pope Francis said.
"We, too, are wounded; who isn't wounded in life?" he said. "Who does not bear the scars of past choices, of misunderstandings, of hurts that stay inside and that we struggle to overcome?"
"God does not hide from our eyes the wounds that have pierced his body and soul. He shows them to show us that a new passage can be opened at Easter: to make of one's wounds holes of light," the pope said, before imagining someone responding, "But, Your Holiness, don't exaggerate."
Pope Francis told the crowd it was not an exaggeration.
"I ask you, what do you do with your wounds, the ones that only you know? You can let them fester in resentment, in sadness, or I can unite them with Jesus' wounds, so that my wounds also become bright," he said.
"Yes, our wounds can become springs of hope when, instead of feeling sorry for ourselves or hiding them, we dry the tears shed by others," the pope said.
The choice, he said, is either to "lick my own wounds" or to reach out "to heal, to help others."
Source: https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/holy-week-time-spring-cleaning-including-spiritually-pope-says
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Weekend Mass Schedule:
Saturday Vigil: 5pm Sunday: 7am, 8am, 10am * & Noon * Live Streamed on YouTube Weekday Mass Schedule Mon-Sat: 8am* (9am on Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving) Confession Saturdays: 3:30pm - 4:30pm Adoration Chapel Monday-Friday 8:30am-8pm |
Nativity Of the Blessed Virgin Mary
30 East Franklin Street, Media, PA 19063 Telephone: 610-566-0185 Fax: 610-566-2873 Email: [email protected] *This email isn't monitored on evenings and weekends. For emergencies or immediate needs, please call the rectory at 610-566-0185. Rectory Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9am-1pm Sat & Sun: Closed |
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