Newsletter, March 29, 2023
Charlestown Catholic Community
Holy Week Masses
Palm Sunday Masses
Saturday
4:00 pm St. Mary
4:00 pm – St. Francis
Sunday
8:00 am – St. Mary
9:30 am – St. Francis
11:00 am – St. Mary
6:00 pm – St. Mary
Monday
8:00 am – St. Francis
Tuesday
8:00 am – St. Francis
Wednesday
8:00 am – St. Francis
Holy Thursday
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Mary
5:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper – St. Francis
7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper – St. Mary
Good Friday
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Mary
3:00 pm Stations of the Cross
5:30 pm Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion – St. Francis
7:30 pm Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion – St. Mary
Holy Saturday
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Mary
5:30 pm Easter Vigil – St. Francis
7:30 pm Easter Vigil – St. Mary
EASTER MORNING
Resurrection of Our Lord
Masses:
8:000 am – St. Mary
9:30 am – St. Francis
11:00 am – St. Mary
NO 6:00 PM
His Love Endures Forever
Lenten prayer and Reconciliation service
Thursday, March 30 at 6:30pm
As Easter approaches, consider setting an hour aside and come to our Lenten evening of prayer. In a serene and reflective atmosphere, we will pray together as a community of faith, contemplating God’s love, mercy and action in our lives. The evening will conclude with an opportunity for individual confession.
It helps now and then to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives include everything.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water the seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need
further development. We provide yeast that produces effect far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing this. This enables us to do something, and do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter to do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
–by Bishop Ken Utener in memory of Oscar Romero.
It Takes A Village…