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Join us for the 6:30 p.m. Mass broadcast from home. You may wish to prepare by setting a place to mark this time with a cloth, a candle, a cross or icon. Also prepare a small bowl of oil for anointing, the church’s traditional sign for healing and wholeness.

In Holy Week we journey with Jesus from triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the events of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. It is a week Christians mark with special reverence, often with personal introspection and contemplation.

The community gathers each day. On Monday with special intention for healing. On Tuesday with special intention for personal confession. On Wednesday with special intention for peace.

About Holy Monday

Saint John writes that Jesus’ closest friends prepared for his passion, death and resurrection by hosting him for a meal. At that meal Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, offered a gesture much as would have been done to prepare a body for burial:

“Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”
-- Saint John 12:3