St. Monica Catholic Church

RECONCILIATION SERVICE
We will have our Lenten Reconciliation Service on Thursday, 23 March at 6:00 p.m. in the Church. Fr. Anthony from Holy Trinity in Bandon will be joining us that evening as well. Please see our bulletin for all the Reconciliation Services on the South Coast. 

CHANGE TO WEDNESDAY MASS TIME

Wednesday daily Masses will begin at Noon. There is no change to the daily Mass times for the other days of the week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Masses remain at 8:30 a.m.)

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY AT ST. MONCIA 

We will offer Masses at both 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on St. Patrick's day (17 March). In addition, Confessions will be offered at 5:00 p.m. Immediately following the Mass, we will offer the Stations of the Cross in the Church followed by an Irish simple supper in the Parish Hall. Archbishop Sample has offered a dispensation from the requirement to abstain from meat on St. Patrick's day this year, but Fr. Rick suggests that if you use this dispensation that you add some spiritual practice to your day (come to Mass, pray a rosary, read spiritual works by a Saint, etc.) and not use it as an excuse to party. Irish themed non-meat options will be available at the simple supper for those who still want to abstain. 

STATIONS OF THE CROSS, CONFESSIONS, & SIMPLE SUPPERS

The Lenten tradition of Stations of the Cross followed by a Simple Supper will continue. Join us any Friday of Lent at 6:00 p.m. for the Stations, followed immediately by the Simple Supper in the Parish Hall. This will begin the first Friday of Lent on 24 February. In addition, Confessions will be heard starting at 5:30 p.m., just before Stations of the Cross.

PASSION WEEK AT ST. MONICA

Palm Sunday Masses (1 & 2 April) will begin with the blessing of the palms in the Parish Hall, followed by a procession into the Church for Mass.

Tuesday, 4 April - Daily Mass is cancelled because Father will be returning from the Chrism Mass in Portland that day.

Thursday, 5 April - Holy Thursday. There is no daily Mass in the morning. The evening Mass of the Lord's Supper will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the Church. The Adoration Chapel will be closed at 5:00 p.m., with the Lord being removed from the Chapel, and will remain closed until after the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday, at which point Jesus will be restored to the tabernacle. 

Friday, 6 April - Good Friday. It is a day of both fasting and abstinence from meat. There will be no daily Mass and no Exposition of the blessed Sacrament in the morning. We will celebrate the Stations of the Cross at 3:00 p.m. A Passion of the Lord Service will be celebrated at 6:00 p.m. 

Saturday, 7 April. The normal vigil Mass at 4:30 p.m. will be moved to 8:00 p.m. It will begin with the blessing of the Easter candle in the courtyard, followed by a candle-lit procession in the Church.

Sunday, 8 April. Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! (Khristós anésti! - CHRIST IS RISEN!) Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! (Alithós anésti! - TRULY HE IS RISEN!) 
Wear your Easter finest. Mass times at the normal times. There will be an Easter egg hunt for the little ones after the 10:30 a.m. Mass. 

Learn more about the Lenten rules of Fasting and Abstinence, as well as some of the changes that will take place at the Mass during the season of Lent.

Aprenda más sobre las reglas de Cuaresma de ayuno y abstinencia, así como algunos de los cambios que tendrá lugar en la misa durante la temporada de Cuaresma.