Holy Week and Easter Schedule 2013

St. Benedict's Church

1317 Eggert Road

Amherst, NY
Diocese of Buffalo, New York

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HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SCHEDULE

 

Holy Thursday 28 March 2013

9am Morning Prayer

5pm Shared Supper  [bring a dish to share; all are welcome, but please call Alan/Mary Long at 837-8940 or Pat Webster at 837-2899 for reservations.]

7pm Mass

8:30-11pm Adoration

Good Friday  29 March 2013

9am Morning Prayer

9:30-Noon Adoration

Noon Service with Communion

6pm Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday  30 March 2013

9am Morning Prayer

9:15am Church decorating

3:00 pm Blessing of Baskets [click here for information on items in a traditional Easter Basket and what they symbolize.]

8:00 pm Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday  31 March 2013

8, 10 and 11:30am Masses

 

Holy Thursday Thanks 2012

This evening's liturgy was an amazing experience. There was a record number of parishioners and guests actively participating.

Thank you all for taking your holy Catholic faith seriously. It struck me tonight how truly catholic, yes catholic with a small "c," our liturgies are. The variety of liturgical roles reflects our gifts and talents as a community of faith. That is what is supposed to happen as Church!

So let's get specific with our thanks...

Thanks be to God for calling us together tonight and for sending His Son in history and in the Eucharist!

Our special thanks to those who served in various roles tonight.

Thanks to all who joined us in prayer, in song, and in adoration tonight. You are truly what we celebrated tonight - the Body of Christ!

Thanks also to our four priests, led tonight by Msgr. Fran who often speaks of his special love for this day in the liturgical calendar.

Ruth Scheda did her usual excellent job as our lector. Ruth is recuperating well from her recent injuries and she is back serving our parish as if nothing happened. Thanks Ruth!

Glenn and our choir added to tonight's solemnity with beautiful music. They selected a great mix of new and old favorites. Diane Battaglia was our inspiring and talented cantor and psalmist tonight. She always helps us pray well through song because her love for Christ is contagious.

Our thanks to the ushers who had many extra duties tonight coordinating the foot washers and hand washing all this in addition to their usual duties.

Thanks to Ben and Jesse, tonight's acolytes. They did a marvelous job with the incense, the procession and foot washing. Ben was one of the brave souls who had their feet washed tonight. Thanks to all of you!

Also a word of thanks to the RCIA Elect who processed in with us and presented the sacred oils to the congregation. All three of them- Stacy, Jason and Maria- will be baptized at the Easter Vigil this Saturday.

Thank you all for making this the best Holy Thursday at St. Benedict's ever!

Holy Week 2012 schedule



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HOLY WEEK 2012

SACRED TRIDUUM SCHEDULE

for St. Benedict's Parish

Amherst, NY

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Our Palm Sunday liturgies follow the usual weekend Mass schedule -

Saturday at 5pm, Sunday at 8am, 10am and 11:30am.

Holy Thursday:

9:00am Morning Prayer

7:00pm Evening Mass (following Shared Supper)

             Thursday of the Lord's Supper

Good Friday:

9:00am Morning Prayer

Noon - The Passion of the Lord

6:00pm Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday:

9:00am Morning Prayer

3:00pm Blessing of Baskets (see http://bit.ly/dN1BJj for info on this tradition)

8:30pm Easter Vigil Mass

MUSIC NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 20

       The feast of Christ the King is the climax of the church year, but also a bridge to Advent. The image of the shepherd-king will appear in next week’s Psalm 80, which we also sang on October 2, invoked by a people in exile whose vineyard has been destroyed. (Recall that today’s 23^rd Psalm was also our response on October 9.)  We all long for leaders who will shepherd us, leading by example and healing what is not whole. The key, as we have heard for the last three weeks, is to be alert for the return of the King, for he lives and moves among us even now. The sheep have recognized the person of Christ in those dispossessed; the goats have not. As we have seen these last weeks, walls must fall to bring about the kingdom. St. Paul lays out the scenario: Christ is raised first, then those who are faithful to him; and then every earthly concept of nationality and government will crumble. Finally, when death is destroyed, God will be all in all.

      The promise of the resurrection is well-conveyed in the hymn “We Will Rise Again,” with verses drawn from Isaiah.  Resurrection is also the theme of “Soon and Very Soon.” Our communion processional again this week will be “When We Eat This Bread”, this time with verses from “Shepherd Me, O God.” The African hymn “Jesu, Jesu,” which we also sing on Holy Thursday, reminds us where we find Christ. “You Are My All In All” expands on the concluding thought of our epistle. The closing hymn at the organ Masses, “The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns” is set to the early American hymn tune Morning Song and is a meditation on the King of kings whom we worship both in the fullness of time and in Bethlehem. At 10:00 we go out to a medley of spirituals, “Ride On, King Jesus” and “In That Great Gettin’-Up Morning.”

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