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Holy Days ScheduleSAINT DENNIS ALTAR AT CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS, December 25, 2007
Christmas Eve Masses
6:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Christmas Day Mass 9:00 am
HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION
Please note: When a holy day (except the Immaculate Conception--December 8th or Christmas--December 25th) falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is removed although the Feast is still celebrated liturgically and people are encouraged to attend Mass.
The Holy Days observed in the United States and the Diocese of Wilmington are:
January 1, 2008 Mary the Mother of God
March 23, 2008 Easter Sunday
May 4, 2008 Ascension of the Lord
August 15, 2008 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
November 1, 2008 All Saints
December 8, 2008 Immaculate Conception
December 25, 2008 Christmas
HOLY DAYS MASS SCHEDULE
New Year's Eve, December 31, 2007
5:30 pm
NEW YEAR'S DAY, January 1, 2008
8:oo am
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ASH WEDNESDAY, February 6, 2008
8:00 am, 12:00 Noon, 7:00 pm
Ashes are distributed after the homily at Masses
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
1st Station: JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DIE
Jesus, you stand alone before Pilate and your accusers, all religious and political powers arrayed against you. But knowing your Kingdom was not of this world, you trusted your Father. However frightening your ordeal loomed, you showed a confidence that the world cannot give because of God's prescence within you. Jesus, live ever more fully in me and help me to trust you and tap into your divine strength when I am threatened.
2nd Station: JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS
Jesus, I often miss the strength of will with which you accepted your Cross. Your power deep within, the astounding spiritual energy flowing from your union with God, helped you to embrace your Cross courageously and to do all that was asked of you. Jesus, may the spiritual energy of your Spirit within me flow freely. With your power displacing my weakness, help me to do wholeheartedly all you ask of me.
3rd Station: JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME
At Gethsemane, you prayed "not my will, but yours be done." That wasn't said in bitterly begrudging resignation, was it? No. You were expressing your desire to give your life in service with all your divine energy. Despite my frequent fears, that is what I seek as well. Jesus, my Saviour, help me to do not just what you ask, as if it were a burden or a test, but rather to seize the opportunity to embody your power and your generosity in serving others.
4th Station: JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER MARY
Jesus, you very likely had many conflicting human emotions, perhaps even some relief, when you met your mother, Mary. Perhaps also, when you saw her, you remembered her deep maternal devotion to you and how that helped you in your understanding your own unique relationship to God. In praying these stations, in accompanying you on this way of the cross, I realize ever more fully that I, too, have a closeness to God. Jesus, my Savior, flood me with a cleaner and deeper knowledge of that intimacy so that I may live always in the light of your divine nearness.
5th Station: SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS
And now, Jesus, another person has been sent to strengthen and to comfort you. When Simon of Cyrene took the cross, you were enabled to stand up again, fresh energy coursing up and down your spine. Jesus, my Savior, open my mind and heart to the good and consoling people you send to me daily. No matter how burdened and downcast I may feel, let your healing spirit flowing through them touch me so that, head up and spine straight again, I may live my life with fresh joy, gratitude, and generosity.
6th Station: VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS
Veronica may be the clearest symbol--or rather the embodiment--of you living with someone. The night before you began this journey to the cross of Calvary, you had washed the feet of the disciples and, now, here she is, "vera icon," (the "true image") of you. It is *your* compassion and *your* power, alive and active in her, that empowers her to soothe your bruised and blood-stained face, to cleanse and refresh you. Jesus, my Savior, may my efforts at compassion and tenderness be less about me and my limited resources and more about you and your very own Spirit living and growing in me.
7th Station: JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME
A second time, Jesus, your body stumbles. But your Spirit does not fail. Humbly you must acknowledge the weakness of your human body, but your Oneness with God sustains you and lifts you up.. Jesus, my Savior, help me always to respect my body's limitations, but never let fretting about it's rare ups and frequent downs distract me from the Holy Spirit that dwells within me at every moment. No matter the body's fickle strengths or weaknesses, let your Spirit in give me a new commitment and new vitality to love God and love others--and to serve them--as I love and serve myself.
8th Station: JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM
Jesus, you stand amid a group of women, in their actual or potential motherhood the embodiment of future generations. They are all weeping for you and are deeply moved by your suffering. You acknowledge their concerns and vulnerability, but you know deep down that your suffering will offer them and their children a precious peace that the world cannot give. Jesus, my Savior, let that same knowledge grow in me so that I can live my life not just for myself and my generation, but for all who will come after me, particularly all children.
9th Station: JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME
Jesus, this third fall seems devastating for you, perhaps increasing your awareness of the heavy burden of sin and evil that you are bearing on your way to Calvary. But focused within, your unity with God brings this insight--*three falls, three days in a tomb, all is not lost but rather all is going according to plan*. Jesus, my Savior, amid the challenges that tend to dishearten me, help me trust God and see that things more often than not are unfolding according to plan in my life as well. May your trust and confidence be mine: may your Spirit lift me up just as the divine power brought you again to your feet.
10th Station:JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS
"Have this mind in you which was in Christ Jesus" was how you emptied yourself of all privelege and trappings of importance, so that your Lordship would be clearly of God's power only. I don't find it easy to be without the externals of prestige and power that seem important. But whenever I've been aware of your life within me, I have been able to let go. Jesus, my Savior, strip me of whatever harmful and trivial things I cling to so that I may taste your joy, peace, and freedom.
11th Station: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS
Loving Jesus, your hands once touched the sick, held loaves and fish, gestured towards others, and frequently blessed children. Nailed now to your Cross, your impaled hands radiate light, peace, and healing, like so many brightly shining stars, to anyone with the eyes of faith to see. Jesus, my Savior, let my own hands become ever more like your hands, radiant, and alive with blessing. May your power, alive in my heart, radiate through me; through my arms and hands, bless with your light, energy and love all those that I touch and serve in my daily life.
12th Station: JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS
Jesus, however pained and raspy voice, your final "it is finished" likely was uttered in deep gratitude and joyful praise that at last all was complete, that you had held nothing back in your life-and-death effort to save us. Those words echoed your Father's revelation in Genesis declaring all of Creation "very good." Whatever comes from me, Jesus, my Savior, may it be good, and may it be ever faithful and true to your Spirit in me. May I learn to do all God asks gladly until my life is "finished" and my earthly journey is completed.
13th Station:JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS
As a sorely aggrieved and saddened Nicodemus lifted your body, your Spirit, Jesus, nonetheless was powerfully at work within him. Once he had come to you in secret for fear of others, but now he acted confidently, even boldly, on your behalf. Jesus, my Savior, help me to live openly faithful to you, particularly when my spirit feels deadened and I seem powerless to change things for the better. Deepen my trust that doing what little I can do matters because, if done by you active in me, it will have lasting value.
14th Station: JESUS IS BURIED IN THE TOMB
"Unless the grain of wheat dies, it remains just a single grain." That is what you promised--your death would be a harvest of salvation for all people. Buried now, your redeeming power breaks open like a divine seed, preparing--in three days--to burst into new and radiant resurrection life, the clearest promise in in human history that our destiny is the divine embrace. Jesus, my Savior, let your presence in me now, however buried it can sometimes feel, burst radiantly into my life today.
(Written by Fr. James Krings, Creative Communications for the Parish, Copyright 2004)
Holy Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:00 pm Mass of the Lord's Supper
Good Friday, March 21, 2008
3:00 pm Passion, Veneration of the Cross
and Holy Communion-
this service is not a Mass
Holy Saturday, March 22, 2008
CONFESSIONS On Holy Saturday...11:00 am to 12:00 Noon
SOLEMN EASTER VIGIL, Saturday March 22, 2008
7:00 pm Blessing of the Easter Fire,
Blessing of Easter Water, Sacraments of Initiation,
First Mass of Easter
EASTER SUNDAY, March 23, 2008
8:00 am, 10:30 am
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