Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

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Beginning on Thursday, April 5, 2012

EASTER SCHEDULE

St. Sebastian Church

235 North Ninth Street Santa Paula, CA 93060-2103

(corner of Santa Paula Street and 9th Street)

CONFESSIONS

(Easter Schedule)

TO BE ANNOUNCED

7:00 p.m. - Lenten Penance Service.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - (Individual Confessions)

7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - (Individual Confessions)

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

TO BE ANNOUNCED

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - (Individual Confessions)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

TO BE ANNOUNCED

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - (Individual Confessions)

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - (Individual Confessions)

Saturday, April 7, 2012 (Holy Saturday)

NO CONFESSIONS

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

HOLY THURSDAY

(Maundy Thursday)

In Cena Domini

7:50 a.m. - Rosary (Luminous Mysteries) for vocations.

8:10 a.m. - TENEBRE

(Matins and Lauds) Office of Readings and Morning Prayer.

7:00 p.m. - MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

With the Washing of the Feet and the Eucharistic Procession

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Friday, April 6, 2012

GOOD FRIDAY

Celebratio Passionis Domini

7:50 a.m. - Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) for vocations.

8:10 a.m. - TENEBRE

(Matins and Lauds) Office of Readings and Morning Prayer.

8:45 a.m. - Divine Mercy Novena.

2:00 p.m. - STATIONS OF THE CROSS

3:00 p.m. - CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S PASSION

With the Veneration of the Cross

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

HOLY SATURDAY

Vigilia Paschalis in Nocte Sancta

7:50 a.m. - Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) for vocations.

8:10 a.m. - TENEBRE

(Matins and Lauds) Office of Readings and Morning Prayer.

8:45 a.m. - Divine Mercy Novena.

8:00 p.m. - EASTER VIGIL

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

EASTER SUNDAY

Dominica Paschæ in Resurrectione Domini

8:00 a.m. - EASTER SUNDAY MASS

9:30 a.m. - EASTER SUNDAY MASS

11:30 a.m. - EASTER SUNDAY MASS

5:30 p.m. - NO EVENING MASS

——————— The Sacred Paschal Triduum ———————

Crucifixion Burial Resurrection

     The Sacrum Triduum Paschale or Sacred Paschal Triduum, often called the Easter Triduum or simply the Triduum, begins during Holy Week and consists of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. This includes the Great Easter Vigil, the high point of the Triduum.

     The word Triduum comes from the Latin word meaning “three days.” It begins the evening of Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and ends at Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. Thus the Triduum consists of three full days which begin and end in the evening. The Triduum technically is not part of Lent (at least liturgically), but Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are still reckoned as part of the traditional forty day Lenten fast. The Triduum celebrates the heart of our faith, salvation, and redemption: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thus, the Triduum commemorates the Institution of the Eucharist (the “sacrament of sacraments”), the passion, crucifixion, death of the Lord, his descent to the dead, and finally his glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday morning. Along with the Ascension, these important events make up the Paschal Mystery.

     Thus, even though the liturgical year begins chronologically at Advent, it reaches its culmination during the Easter Triduum, particularly at Easter, the “solemnity of solemnities,” the “Great Feast.” The Catholic Catechism describes the importance of the Triduum:

Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, on either side of this source, the year is transfigured by the liturgy. It really is a “year of the Lord's favor.” The economy of salvation is at work within the framework of time, but since its fulfillment in the Passover of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the culmination of history is anticipated “as a foretaste,” and the kingdom of God enters into our time (1168).

cfr. www.churchyear.net

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