Fr. Thibodeau

Pastor

St. Michael Lent

The Lenten Journey

Our Parish celebrates the holy season of Lent though the ancient disciplines of Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving. We journey with the Elect in the RCIA as they enter this Period of Purification and Enlightenment.

Come, join us, and together let us prepare ourselves for the great Triduum and the great Feast of Easter. Each week make time for a different prayer experience. Join us in fasting. Consider how you can help the less fortunate through almsgiving.

THE TRIDUUM

The Center and Heart of the Catholic Liturgical Year

The exercises of Lent are focused to help the faithful strip away all things that have cluttered up their lives in recent months and to help them reestablish or deepen their relationship with God in Christ. Catholics live out the Paschal Mystery (life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ) most fully when they celebrate the Sacred Mysteries of the Triduum.

What is the Triduum? Triduum is a Greek work which means "The Three Days." It is not three days as normally counted, however, because these particular three days actually span four calendar days. The Triduum begins at the Evening Celebration of the Last Supper, on Holy Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. and continues on April 2, Good Friday, with Stations of the Cross at 3:00 p.m. and the Celebration of the Passion of Our Lord at 7:00 p.m. and on Holy Saturday, April 3, with the Easter Vigil at 8:00 p.m. The Triduum concludes on Easter Sunday, April 4. Masses will be held at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.