Please plan to attend the High Holy Days of the Church:
Passion (“Palm”) Sunday Masses will be offered at our regular week-end liturgies of 23-24 March. We will have week-day Masses on Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week, as usual, but of course no Mass is offered on Good Friday. Readers have been selected and need to study their readings.
Triduum Liturgies: Holy Thursday at 6:30 pm in Belt.On this day we remember Jesus’ Last Supper, and his sacrificial love unto death. Good Friday Liturgy at 3:00 pm in Centerville, and at 6:30 pm in Belt. The Good Friday liturgy is not a Mass, but a 3-part service commemorating the death of Jesus for all: the reading of the Passion according to St. John; the veneration of the Cross; prayers for the whole world with communion of the “pre-sanctified” Body of Christ.
The Easter Vigil will be begin at 8:30 pm at St. Mark’s; there will be no other Easter Mass in Belt. If the weather is fairly mild, we begin outdoors at “the new fire.” If the weather is typical late March in Montana, we will have a smaller fire under shelter. New members are baptized / confirmed at the Vigil; this year we have two young men being confirmed. The liturgy of the Word is extended, but we will not let it be overly long. The focus at the Vigil and in the two Easter morning Masses we will be celebrating is the proclamation of Christ raised from death to life eternal in God. Where Christ goes, we follow now through faith and death to our self-centered life, and later through loving surrender in physical death.
The Easter Sunday Masses will be celebrated in Raynesford at 0800, and in Centerville at 1100, the usual time for Sunday liturgy. No meal or faith class on Easter Sunday, as you will probably be with your families.
Words of the Apostle Thomas in John’s Gospel has often served as the theme for homilies during these high holy days (the Triduum). Thomas says about Jesus, “Let us go up to die with Him.” We die and rise with Christ by faith working through love.
Final note: Please try to attend Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil or Easter Day Mass. The essence of our Catholic faith is contained and proclaimed in these liturgies. The mercy of God can work on our hearts, soften their hardness, make us more responsive to true love as we faithfully share in these liturgies.
Come and listen, pray, sing, receive.
Passion (“Palm”) Sunday Masses will be offered at our regular week-end liturgies of 23-24 March. We will have week-day Masses on Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week, as usual, but of course no Mass is offered on Good Friday. Readers have been selected and need to study their readings.
Triduum Liturgies: Holy Thursday at 6:30 pm in Belt.On this day we remember Jesus’ Last Supper, and his sacrificial love unto death. Good Friday Liturgy at 3:00 pm in Centerville, and at 6:30 pm in Belt. The Good Friday liturgy is not a Mass, but a 3-part service commemorating the death of Jesus for all: the reading of the Passion according to St. John; the veneration of the Cross; prayers for the whole world with communion of the “pre-sanctified” Body of Christ.
The Easter Vigil will be begin at 8:30 pm at St. Mark’s; there will be no other Easter Mass in Belt. If the weather is fairly mild, we begin outdoors at “the new fire.” If the weather is typical late March in Montana, we will have a smaller fire under shelter. New members are baptized / confirmed at the Vigil; this year we have two young men being confirmed. The liturgy of the Word is extended, but we will not let it be overly long. The focus at the Vigil and in the two Easter morning Masses we will be celebrating is the proclamation of Christ raised from death to life eternal in God. Where Christ goes, we follow now through faith and death to our self-centered life, and later through loving surrender in physical death.
The Easter Sunday Masses will be celebrated in Raynesford at 0800, and in Centerville at 1100, the usual time for Sunday liturgy. No meal or faith class on Easter Sunday, as you will probably be with your families.
Words of the Apostle Thomas in John’s Gospel has often served as the theme for homilies during these high holy days (the Triduum). Thomas says about Jesus, “Let us go up to die with Him.” We die and rise with Christ by faith working through love.
Final note: Please try to attend Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil or Easter Day Mass. The essence of our Catholic faith is contained and proclaimed in these liturgies. The mercy of God can work on our hearts, soften their hardness, make us more responsive to true love as we faithfully share in these liturgies.
Come and listen, pray, sing, receive.
