STATIONS OF THE CROSS ​will be held this Friday, March 30, at 3 p.m. in the church. All are welcome. FAST AND ABSTINENCE ~ Good Friday is a day of fasting (limiting the consumption of food) and abstinence (refraining from eating meat). Therefore, all Catholics, 14 years of age and older are obliged to refrain from eating meat. All Catholics who are 18 years of age but not yet 59 are obliged to fast on Good Friday. By retaining these traditions for our Diocese, we do not intend that they be interpreted as laws binding under pain of sin, but as customs from which we will not hold ourselves lightly excused. PARISH OFFICE CLOSED ~ The Parish Office will be closed on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Monday following Easter. There will be services on those days. HOLY THURSDAY ~ Mass of the Lord’s Supper will be on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. The church will remain open for adoration until 10:00 p.m. GOOD FRIDAY ~ The Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord will begin at 7:00 p.m. EASTER VIGIL AND SUNDAY ~ The Easter Vigil is scheduled for after sunset, so this year it will be on Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. We will have the regular Mass schedule on Easter Sunday: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. REHEARSALS ~ There will be a rehearsal for participants in the Holy Thursday liturgy on Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the church. The rehearsal for the Good Friday service will be on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. There will be a rehearsal on Saturday at 11 a.m. for the participants in the Easter Vigil. LENTEN RICE BOWLS ~ Your donation will be accepted at the Holy Thursday Mass. If you can’t attend that Mass, you may place your donation in any offertory or drop it off at the parish office. We will share our parish almsgiving with our sister parish in Mexico and send the remaining half to Catholic Relief Services. If you would like to issue a check for the total collected instead of handing in a box of coins, that would be appreciated.  Just be sure to note "rice bowl" in the memo line.  Thank you for your generosity. .