Triduum & Easter Mass Times:

Holy Thursday – Mass of The Lord’s Supper Thursday, March 28 7:00 pm
9:00 pm to 10:00 pm Silent Prayer ‘at Gethsemane’, ending with Evening Prayer at 9:45 pm
Good Friday – The Passion of Our Lord Friday, March 29 11:00 am Children’s Service
3:00 pm Solemn Service
Easter – Solemnity of the Resurrection of The Lord
Saturday, March 30 11:00 am Blessing of the Easter Food
8:00 pm The Great Vigil of Easter
Sunday, March 31
8:30 am
10:15 am
12:00 pm

Please Note: Good Friday is an obligatory day of fasting (ages 18-59) and abstinence from meat (ages 14+). This does not apply to those who are sick, pregnant, and some others. Read more info here.

Everything You Need to Know about the Sacred Triduum

by Gretchen Filz (CatholicCompany.com)

Holy Week is the most solemn and glorious week in Christianity, the pinnacle of the liturgical year. It’s more sacred than Christmas! This is because Holy Week commemorates the final week of Our Lord’s life, the very purpose for which Christmas happened.

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday (when Jesus made his final entrance into Jerusalem) and culminates with Easter Sunday. As Holy Week progresses to its final days the solemnity heightens.

THE SACRED TRIDUUM

Sundown on Holy Thursday to sundown on Easter Sunday is considered the most solemn part of the liturgical year. This three-day period is referred to as the Easter Triduum, also known as the Sacred Triduum, or Paschal Triduum.

The word “triduum” comes from the Latin word triduum, which comes from tris (“three”) + dies (“day”).

Basically, the Sacred Triduum is one great festival recounting the last three days of Jesus’ life on earth, the events of his Passion and Resurrection, when the Lamb of God laid down his life in atonement for our sins.

“Though chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day unfolding for us the unity of Christ’s Paschal Mystery” (USCCB).

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*There is no need to register for any Masses during Holy Week.