April
1 , 2007
Holy
Week
Convent
Countdown
Still
waiting for a new tenant...tick...tick...tick...
We’ve lost $18,000 a month in rental income since the Police Department
moved out of the Convent building (next to our school) in February.
Please continue to spread the word about this building-for-rent and
let’s pray that one of the recently interested parties will make
an offer to rent it.
St
Anthony's Hall
I want to thank the St. Anthony Society for the use of St. Anthony’s
Hall for our beautiful Lenten retreat during these past weeks. We are
still “on track” to receive ownership of the building from
the society. However, there has been a delay because the transfer needs
to be brought before a NY State Court to approve the transfer. When
I ask about the delay, I’m told it’s due to a court backlog.
Any day now!
Online
Masses
We are now going to be able to stream masses and other events live over
the internet to homebound folks and to relatives who live in other lands.
If you’re interested in this, in this, click
here.
Away
at College?
Are you or your child away at college? At St. Brigid’s we like
to stay in touch via occasional e-mails as we send photos and news from
“home”. College students wishing to be connected through
our “Letters from home” can sign up online here
or you can mail or
e-mail thecollege names and e-mail addresses to Father Ralph and he’ll
put them on the list.
e-mail Father Ralph:
Past Columns:
March 25: Climate Change
March 18: Take A Step
March 11: Cold Enough for
You?
March 4:Stocking the Shelves
Feb 25: Basket Case
Feb18: Ashes and Desert
Dust
Feb11: Get Ready, Get Set,
REST!
Feb.4: Lent Lurking
Jan.28:Catholic Schools
Week
Jan.21:Crying in Church
Jan.14: Love ahead
Jan.7:
So How Was Your Christmas?
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We
enter the holiest week of the year where we unite ourselves with Jesus
and find freedom from the things that enslave us. All are welcome to the
wonderful celebrations of our faith:
Monday. All day confessions. Starting
at 7:30am and continuing til our Penance service at 8pm (except during
mass times), priests will be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation
all day. Come experience the freedom, healing and forgiveness God offers.
Holy
Thursday. We begin the day with Morning Prayer at 9am. (There
are no morning or noon masses from Holy Thursday through Holy Saturday.)
We celebrate a Children’s Liturgy at 3:30pm and the main celebration
of the Lord’s Supper is at 8pm in Code Auditorium, followed by a
candelight procession with the Blessed Sacrament to the church. There
will be time for prayer
(keeping “watch” with Christ) until midnight.
Good
Friday. Again,
we begin with morning prayer at 9am.
There are many services throughout the day. The main celebration is the
Passion of Lord at 3:15pm (English in church); 3pm (Kreyol in the School
Chapel); and 5:45pm (Spanish in Code Auditorium).
We also have a children’s service at 10am, the “Seven Last
Words” from 12 noon to 3pm, the 5:30 Living Stations of the Cross
(starts at the church, ends at the school) led by our Italian Community;
the procession from the school to the church at 7:15 with Jesus Sepultado,
and 8pm Youth Stations of the Cross.
Holy Saturday. There is morning prayer at 9am. If you wish to bring food
to be blessed for your Easter meal, the blessing will take place at the
end of the morning prayer.
The main event is the Easter
Vigil at 8pm. (There are no 5pm or 7pm masses that night.)
We begin outdoors in the darkness and light the Easter Fire. So begins
our three-hour celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus in which we listen
to God’s word, baptize and confirm adults, and celebrate the Easter
Eucharist.
