Come to daily Mass; the daily Mass schedule during Lent is the following.
Tuesday |
6:30a.m., 8:30a.m |
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Wednesday |
8:30a.m. |
6p.m. at St Vincents in Coweta |
Thursday |
6:30a.m., 8:30a.m |
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Friday |
8:30a.m |
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Saturday |
8:30a.m |
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The 6:30a.m. is especially good for high schoolers.
Make a commitment to pray the rosary each day, with your family, if possible; turn the radio off on your drive to school or work and enjoy the silence; spend time before the Blessed Sacrament sometime during the week; come each week to Stations of the Cross on Friday evening, beginning with the dinner at 5:30p.m.; go to Bible study offered at the O'Brien's on Thursday, or on Wed. night or offered by Peggy; come to Mass early to pray the rosary before Mass; include the poor in your daily prayer. |
Almsgiving
Eat out less and give the money you would have paid by eating out to some organization that helps the poor; take your lunch to work; save your change for the needy each week; challenge your children to give part of their allowance to the poor; bring food items with you to Mass each week for our parish food pantry; come to the Friday dinners which begin at 6:00p.m. & give a donation to the charity of the week. Consider giving the cost of eating out.
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Fasting From Food
Consider giving up 3 meals a week; eat meals as a family; give up the fast food; come to the Friday dinners as a family; spend time, as a family, in preparing one meal each week;
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Other Fasting
Fast by giving up some of the time spent on the internet, watching TV, on Facebook; Fast from spreading gossip, spreading rumors, talking about others; Fast from conversations that tear down rather than lift up; Fast from a refusal to offer reconciliation and forgiveness to someone.
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Fast & Abstinence rules
All Fridays of Lent & Ash Wednesday abstain from meat
(age 14 & up)
Good Friday & Ash Wednesday
Abstain from meat & fast. (1 full meal 2 smaller meals)
(ages 21-59)
Ash Wednesday Mass Schedule
6:30a.m.
8:30a.m.
7:00p.m.
Friday Schedule
6:00p.m. Lenten Meal
6:30p.m.-7:15p.m. Lenten Talk
7:15p.m. Stations of the Cross
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