Posts by Rick Caporali

Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wed/ Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 7:45pm in Spanish, in the church Lent Confessions: Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm (as usual). Please plan confessions…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Our Lenten small group/self study continues this week using Session Three, The Liturgy of the Word, from A Biblical Walk through the Mass by Edward Sri. How do you hear Sacred Scripture? Are they texts about God, or is God actually speaking to you? The Liturgy of the Word…

Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wed/ Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 7:45pm in Spanish, in the church Lent Confessions: Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm (as usual). Please plan confessions…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Our Lenten small group/self study begins this week using Session Two, The Introductory Rites, from A Biblical Walk through the Mass by Edward Sri. Of course, the two major movements of the Mass are the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. They are preceded with…

Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wed/ Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 7:45pm in Spanish, in the church Lent Confessions: Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm (as usual). Please plan confessions…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Our Lenten small group/self study begins this week using Session One from A Biblical Walk through the Mass by Edward Sri. His first session on the Mass has to do with the historical and religious underpinnings of Judaism. You can’t really look at the New Testament if you don’t…

Lenten Observances Fasting:Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wed/ Good Friday Abstinence:No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers:Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross:Fridays, 7pm in English, 7:45pm in Spanish, in the church Lent Confessions:Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm (as usual). Please plan confessions early in the season to…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, As I write this I have just returned from attending the monks’ Walk for Peace program this afternoon at National Cathedral. I represented Bishop Burbidge at their arrival last evening at Marymount University in Arlington. 2,300 miles and today the 108th day in their journey, the lead monk who…

Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wed/ Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 7:45pm in Spanish, in the church Lent Confessions: Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm (as usual). Please plan confessions…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, For the third year, on Ash Wednesday (TEN days away!) we will be offering an early evening Liturgy of the Word with the reception of ashes. You might ask, why would we consider a liturgy on Ash Wednesday that is only a Liturgy of the Word and not a…