Streaming Masses and Announcements for 13 April 2025
Worship Aid for Palm Sunday
Lenten Observances
Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays
Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm
Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 8pm 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 avoid running out of time.
Holy Week is here. Celebrate with us the most beautiful and meaningful liturgies of the year as we enter the Mystery of our salvation in the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Principal liturgies are the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday at 7:30 pm, The Passion and Veneration of the Cross on Friday at 4 pm in Spanish, 7:30 in English, the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday at 8:30 pm. The Easter Sunday Mass schedule will be the same except for NO 5:00 pm Mass. Please see the bulletin for a complete schedule of the Sacred Triduum. Join us as we approach the Joy of Easter.
Join us for “Tre Ore,” the Seven Last Words of Jesus, in meditation and song on Good Friday from 12 to 3 pm. Limited confessions will be offered during the Tre Ore.
The Blessing of Easter foods will be on Holy Saturday at 10:00 am and we will pray together Morning Prayer and Office of Readings at 8AM Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Remember no Masses on Thursday morning, Friday or Saturday, except for the Vigil at 8:30 PM.
Please return your Rice Bowls. We would appreciate it if you could change the coins and bills into a check, but we will accept coins.
The ECHO Yard Sale returns to the school gym on Saturday, April 26, starting at 8 am.
Now accepting applications for PRE-Kindergarten in our school. Interested in joining our school community? We focus on faith formation, academic excellence, and community service. Visit our website: www.stbernschool.org/admissions-process/
Adults who, for whatever reason, are catechized but have never received the sacrament of Confirmation are invited to contact the office. Fr. Don will be planning a series of classes during the Easter Season in preparation for Confirmation with Bishop Burbidge on Pentecost Sunday.
All Saints Church Multi-Car Raffle is still in full swing. Four vehicles will be raffled along with a $20,000 cash drawing, plus other cash drawings. The final deadline for ticket returns is April 29th. The drawings begin at 1:00pm Saturday, May 3rd, at All Saints Parish in Manassas. Please return all tickets by mail directly to All Saints in the envelope provided.
Thank you to all of the volunteers who made our Spring-Cleaning Day a tremendous success. The church looks fresh and clean as we enter into our Easter celebrations.
The Parish Office will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.