THE EASTER TRIDUUM
"The Three Days"
Lent ends quietly on Thursday afternoon. The church enters the Triduum (three days).
On Thursday night the church begins a time of prayer and fasting,
a time of keeping watch, that lasts into the great Vigil between Saturday
and Sunday when the sacraments of initiation are celebrated. On Thursday night
and on Friday the Church gathers to pray and to remember the many facets of the
single mystery.
The Easter Triduum of the passion and resurrection of Christ is the culmination
of the entire liturgical year. The solemnity of Easter has the same kind of
preeminence in the liturgical year that Sunday has in the week.
Holy Thursday Evening
7:00PM Church
We begin the Easter Triduum with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.
At this liturgy, we rejoice in the institution of the Eucharist.
The focus of this night's liturgy is service.
Good Friday
Stations of the Cross
3:00PM Church
Good Friday of the Lord's Passion
7:00PM Church
According to the Church's ancient tradition, Mass is not celebrated
on Good Friday. The celebration of the Lord's Passion consists of
three parts: (1) LITURGY OF THE WORD, (2) THE VENERATION OF THE CROSS,
and (3) HOLY COMMUNION. This liturgy begins and ends in silence.
This is partially because it is a continuation of Holy Thursday evening's
Mass of the Lord's Supper that concludes the following evening with the
Vigil of the Lord's Resurrection.
Holy Saturday Night: The Easter Vigil
7:00PM Church
The Easter Vigil is arranged in four parts: (1) after a brief SERVICE OF LIGHT,
(2) the Church meditates on all the wonderful things God has done for his
people from the beginning; THE LITURGY OF THE WORD. As the day of
resurrection approaches, (3) new members of the Church are reborn in baptism
and confirmed in the SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION, and lastly (4) the whole Church
is called to the table which the Lord prepared for his people through his death
and resurrection, the LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST.
Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of the Lord
Easter Sunday Mass 7:30am
Easter Sunday Mass 9:30am - Outdoor Altar - Bring a Chair!
Easter Sunday Mass Noon - Outdoor Altar - Bring a Chair!
