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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 water as a remembrance of baptism, the church’s rite for welcoming persons into the body of Christ.

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 Tuesday

Saint John writes that as Jesus prepared for his passion, death and resurrection, he was concerned that his disciples would draw together rather than be pushed apart. In searching ourselves and naming where we have fallen short of God, we remember that in baptism we are forgiven and drawn to one another. It is a type of dying to the self and rising to another.  “Eternal life,” Jesus calls it, comparing this gift to his own body:

“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.”
-- Saint John 12:23-26