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April 13, 2025
Dear St. Mary-St. Columba Family,
As we enter this Holy Week, on Palm Sunday we journey with the Lord these days and ask for the grace to be more attentive and prayerful this sacred time of the year. Below is a rundown of the liturgies at both churches.
Monday is Confession Monday in the archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn(which includes Queens). Every church will have confessions available in the time frame of 2-4 and 6-9 PM. Anyone unable to go to confession that day can call the Parish Office and one of our priests will be happy to hear your confession. Tuesday and Wednesday Mass schedule is as usual.
Holy Thursday there is no 8 or 9 AM Mass. The Mass of the Lord’s Supper will be at 5 PM at St. Columba and 7:15 PM at St. Mary’s. The Mass concludes with the procession from the main altar to the altar of repose. The church will be open for private prayer until 10pm at St. Columba and until midnight at St. Mary’s.
Good Friday we invite everyone to attend Tenebrae at 9 AM at St. Mary’s. This beautiful service combines Morning Prayer and the Office of Readings with the chanted lamentations of Jeremiah. It runs about an hour. The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion will be at 3 PM at both parishes. The veneration of the cross will be a simple genuflection or bow to the cross during that part of the service. Holy Communion will be distributed at the Passion services. Stations of the Cross will be at 7:15 at St. Columba and 7:15 at St. Mary’s.
Holy Saturday there is the Tenebrae service at 9 AM. There will be no afternoon confessions. There is only one Easter Vigil at St. Mary’s at 8 PM.
Easter Sunday Mass will be celebrated at 7:30, 9, 10:30 and 12 at St. Mary’s and 9, 10:30, and 12 at St. Columba. There is no 6 PM.
Fr. Chris
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