LENT 2010:    STONES….

Consider the word “Stone” in sacred scripture:

Exodus 24: The Lord said to Moses:  Come up to me on the mountain and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction.

Ezekiel 11:  I will give them one heart, and put a new sprit within them; I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.

1 Kings 18: with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord

John 8:  Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.

Matthew 7:9  Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread will give a stone?

Ps 91:  Upon their hands they will bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Luke 4:  If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

Luke 19:  Jesus said, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout!”

Matthew 27: “He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.”

John 20: 1  “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

Mark 2: 10  “The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
1Peter 2:  “Like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to  offer sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

Stones on which God writes the law; hearts stony with sin are transformed; stones to build an altar, stones to hurt:  to kill the sinner, to hurt our feet, to trip us up; stones crying out in praise of God; a stone covering the tomb of Jesus; that same stone rolled away on Easter morning; Christ the cornerstone; living stones of the Church……

The STONE will be our reminder this Lent.  We will take one on Ash Wednesday or the First Sunday of Lent to keep in our pockets.  Let it remind us of the stones in our lives. The stones of hardness of heart;  the stones of hatred and danger; the stone of the tomb….but also the stones of the law of God; the Easter stone, Christ the Cornerstone and ourselves as the living stones of Christ’s Church. 

Together let us sing each Sunday the words of God’s invitation to us: “DEEP WITHIN, I WILL PLANT MY LAW; NOT ON STONE BUT IN YOUR HEART.  FOLLOW ME, I WILL BRING YOU BACK.  YOU WILL BE MY OWN AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD.”  Let us keep these stones with us as a daily reminder to spend these 40 days of Lent following the Lord and building his church in our world.

Eucharist

Monday through Saturday - 8:30am
Saturday - 5:00pm
Sunday - 7:30am, 9:00am ŧ, 10:30am, 12:00pm
 

ŧ Children's Liturgy of the Word   (Year Round)

 

Liturgical Schedule

 

Schedule for Lent, Holy Week

and Sacred Triduum

Week Day Masses

As Announced in the Bulletin

Stations of the Cross

Every Friday – 10:30 a.m.

7:00 p.m. (Stations and Benediction)

(Except Good Friday)

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Individual Confession

Every Wednesday (During Lent)

(Starting Feb. 24, 2010)

7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Every Saturday (except Holy Saturday)

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Regional Penance Service

Monday, March 22, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Holy Trinity Church, Glen Burnie

Holy Week

Tenebrae

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 – 8:00 p.m.

Triduum

Holy Thursday, April 1, 2010

Morning Prayer – 8:30 a.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:00 p.m

(Adoration in the Lower Church until 10:00 p.m.

ending with Night Prayer)

Good Friday, April 2, 2010

Church will be open for private prayer, 12:00 noon – 7:00 p.m.

Morning Prayer – 8:30 a.m.

Stations of the Cross – 3:00 p.m.

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion – 7:00 p.m.

(Traditional Service)

Youth Ministry Passion Play -

following the Traditional Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday, April 3, 2010

Morning Prayer – 8:30 a.m.

Blessing of the Food – 9:00 a.m.

Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010

7:30 a.m. Mass

9:00 a.m. Mass

10:30 a.m. Mass  Upper/Lower Church

12:00 Noon Mass

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To be a family of Christian faith in the Roman Catholic Tradition, through faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Word and Worship, and through a commitment to evangelize and energize the faith through unconditional love of, and service to the members  of our Parish community, and the world in which we live.

Pope Benedict XVI has declared a “Year for Priests” beginning with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19, 2009. The year will conclude in Rome with an international gathering of priests with the Holy Father on June 19, 2010.

Please pray for our priests that they might always be faithful to their sacred calling.

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