Come Join Your Parish Family Thursdays During Lent for Soup Supper and Communal Prayer
“ Return to me with your whole heart. Blow the trumpet, proclaim a fast, gather the people” Joel 2:12-18
These words from the Ash Wednesday scriptures frame the focus of the Lenten season. As a community, we will journey together through prayer, fasting and works of mercy to return to the Lord with our whole hearts. Please join us for a simple supper of soup and bread on the following Thursdays of Lent:
Thursday March 6, 13, 20, 27
Thursday April 3 and 10
We will gather at 6:00 pm in the parish center for our communal meal and will end with prayer. We understand that many in our parish family have very busy lives. We hope that this brief time together will be an opportunity for us to pause for a moment to celebrate our faith together.
Each week there will be sign up sheets for the soup suppers at the entrance to the church. In order to have enough soup, please print your name and the number of people in your family who will attend on the sheets. You may also call the parish office to confirm your attendance or email Karen Solomon at [email protected] to register or to help out.
We will also need people to make soup, bake or bring bread and help with set up and clean up. Please sign up as a soup or bread maker or for the set up or clean up crew on the signup sheets, email Karen or call the parish office. Soup makers should make enough soup to feed 8-10 people. Every year we have an incredible variety of delicious soups to sample and enjoy.
We hope you can join us for any or all of these wonderful evenings to meet some new people, share a simple meal and pray together.
“ Return to me with your whole heart. Blow the trumpet, proclaim a fast, gather the people” Joel 2:12-18
These words from the Ash Wednesday scriptures frame the focus of the Lenten season. As a community, we will journey together through prayer, fasting and works of mercy to return to the Lord with our whole hearts. Please join us for a simple supper of soup and bread on the following Thursdays of Lent:
Thursday March 6, 13, 20, 27
Thursday April 3 and 10
We will gather at 6:00 pm in the parish center for our communal meal and will end with prayer. We understand that many in our parish family have very busy lives. We hope that this brief time together will be an opportunity for us to pause for a moment to celebrate our faith together.
Each week there will be sign up sheets for the soup suppers at the entrance to the church. In order to have enough soup, please print your name and the number of people in your family who will attend on the sheets. You may also call the parish office to confirm your attendance or email Karen Solomon at [email protected] to register or to help out.
We will also need people to make soup, bake or bring bread and help with set up and clean up. Please sign up as a soup or bread maker or for the set up or clean up crew on the signup sheets, email Karen or call the parish office. Soup makers should make enough soup to feed 8-10 people. Every year we have an incredible variety of delicious soups to sample and enjoy.
We hope you can join us for any or all of these wonderful evenings to meet some new people, share a simple meal and pray together.
Our Parish Family Celebrates Holy Thursday, April 17, at 7:00 pm; Good Friday April 18 at 7:00 pm and Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil April 19 at 8:00 pm.
The journey of Lent reaches its destination during the The Sacred Triduum: the high holy days of our church liturgical year- Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil(Holy Saturday) The Triduum, observed over three days, is actually one continuous, liturgy that begins on Thursday at the mass of the Lord’s supper and reaches its high point during the Easter Vigil. The Triduum celebrates the very core of our faith, the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ: his life, passion, death and resurrection.
The Liturgy of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil is not meant to be a reenactment of events that took place long ago, but rather a participation in the Paschal Mystery itself. We are not spectators at the Triduum, but participants in a mystery that cannot adequately be described in words. The sacred Triduum summons each of us to suffer, die and rise with Christ Jesus. The Triduum is not about “going to church," but gathering with other disciples of Jesus Christ to enter into the saving mystery of his life, his cross and his resurrection to new life. In the Triduum, we unite own suffering, our personal crosses and our little “deaths” to that of Jesus, trusting that he will bring our life journey’s the fullness of life and redemption.
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy states: liturgy involves “ the conscious, active, and full participation” of everyone. This statement is true for every Sunday mass we celebrate and for the liturgy of the Paschal Triduum. The entire parish community is needed to make the liturgy come alive. It is the work of all the people.
The Triduum brings the long journey of Lent to an end. Please make time in your schedule to join with the entire parish family in person or via livestream during these high holy days. May our celebration of these sacred days bring new meaning and new life to each of us and to our world.
The journey of Lent reaches its destination during the The Sacred Triduum: the high holy days of our church liturgical year- Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil(Holy Saturday) The Triduum, observed over three days, is actually one continuous, liturgy that begins on Thursday at the mass of the Lord’s supper and reaches its high point during the Easter Vigil. The Triduum celebrates the very core of our faith, the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ: his life, passion, death and resurrection.
The Liturgy of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil is not meant to be a reenactment of events that took place long ago, but rather a participation in the Paschal Mystery itself. We are not spectators at the Triduum, but participants in a mystery that cannot adequately be described in words. The sacred Triduum summons each of us to suffer, die and rise with Christ Jesus. The Triduum is not about “going to church," but gathering with other disciples of Jesus Christ to enter into the saving mystery of his life, his cross and his resurrection to new life. In the Triduum, we unite own suffering, our personal crosses and our little “deaths” to that of Jesus, trusting that he will bring our life journey’s the fullness of life and redemption.
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy states: liturgy involves “ the conscious, active, and full participation” of everyone. This statement is true for every Sunday mass we celebrate and for the liturgy of the Paschal Triduum. The entire parish community is needed to make the liturgy come alive. It is the work of all the people.
The Triduum brings the long journey of Lent to an end. Please make time in your schedule to join with the entire parish family in person or via livestream during these high holy days. May our celebration of these sacred days bring new meaning and new life to each of us and to our world.
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