Palm Sunday
5th April | SATURDAY VIGIL MASS
Our Lady of Peace - 6.00 p.m
6th April | SUNDAY MASS
Our Lady of Peace - 9.45 a.m. (gather outside the Church)
St Gilbert's - 9.00 a.m.
St Andrew's - 11.30 a.m.
Our Lady of Peace - 6.00 p.m.
We enter into the celebration of Holy Week with our Blessing of Palms and our Solemn Entry Procession. We gather outside the Church at the 9.45 a.m. Mass.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
1st, 6th - 8th April
We are strongly urged to prepare for our celebration of the Easter Triduum by going to confession before Maundy Thursday.
April 1st | PARISH PENANCE SERVICE
(Our Lady of Peace)
Wednesday April 1st 7.30 p.m. With visiting confessors.
Confessions will also be heard on Mon, Tues and Wed of Holy Week (Apr 6th, 7th, 8th) after the 9.30am Mass at Our Lady of Peace.
(NB. No confessions Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday)
Weekday Masses, Compline
6th - 8th April | WEEKDAY MASSES
Our Lady of Peace - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9.30 a.m.
St. Andrew's - No Thursday morning Mass.
6th - 8th April | COMPLINE
St Andrew's - Monday to Wednesday 7.45 p.m. Followed by meditation.
9th April | CHRISM MASS
Northampton Cathedral - Thursday, 11.00 a.m.
Bishop Peter invites us all to the Chrism Mass. The Oils for the Sacraments will be blessed. The priests of the diocese renew their priestly commitment.
The Easter Triduum
8th - 12th April
The Easter Triduum begins with the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil and closes with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. Central to our Catholic faith is celebrating these days to the full. Try to look on these days as one whole mini liturgical season. Every Sunday is a celebration of the Death and Resurrection of the Lord. The Easter Triduum is our celebration of one Sunday with all our might over a holy period of three days.
On Good Friday (and if possible on Holy Saturday) the Easter Fast in observed. Our obligation is to keep a day of fasting and abstinence on Good Friday. The invitation is to live the whole time from the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper until the Easter Vigil in a spirit of yearning and anticipation. To cut back on our food and drink and on unnecessary activities and entertainments. We are called as Catholic Christians to put aside our business-as-usual for these holiest of all holy days.
Maunday Thursday
9th April
MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER
Our Lady of Peace - 7.30 p.m.
(Watching until midnight)
We welcome the Paschal Triduum, the Liturgy of the Word, the Washing of the Feet, collection for the poor (for Refugees this year), the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Watching before the Blessed Sacrament.
ANGLICAN EUCHARIST
St Andrew's - 7.30 p.m. With Holy Communion for Catholics (Watching until midnight)
Good Friday
10th April (Day of Fasting and Abstinence)
ECUMENICAL SERVICE
St Andrew's - 10.00 a.m.
CHILDREN'S PASSION PLAY SERVICE
Our Lady of Peace - 10.30 a.m.
(Led by children from Our Lady of Peace Junior School)
THE GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY
Our Lady of Peace, St Andrew's 3.00 p.m. (In both churches)
Our prayer begins with silent prostration, The Liturgy of the Word with the Passion of St John, The Intercessions for the world, The Veneration of the Cross, Holy Communion, Collection for the Holy Places.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
St Gilbert's - 7.30 p.m.
The Easter Vigil & Easter Sunday
11th April | EASTER VIGIL MASS
(The Vigil is of course an Easter Sunday Mass).
N.B. No Saturday 6.00 p.m. Mass
Our Lady of Peace - (Saturday Night) 8.30 p.m.
The Easter Bonfire. We give thanks for light and Salvation. The story of God's love proclaimed. The Blessing of the Baptismal water. The Baptism of Adults.
Reception into full communion. The Liturgy of the Eucharıst.
(Your Easter Sunday offering is your personal gift to your priest)
12 April | OTHER EASTER SUNDAY MASSES
Our Lady of Peace - Sunday 9.45 a.m.
St Gilbert's - Sunday
9.00 a.m.
St Andrew's - Sunday
11.30 a.m.
Our Lady of Peace - Sunday 6.00 p.m.
