St. Vincent de Paul Church

For Easter information, click here.

• Holy Thursday – April 17
  No noon Mass or service
  Seder Dinner, 6 PM – Volunteers are still needed. This event requires a ticket but is sold out.
  Mass of the Last Supper, 8 PM directly following the Seder. Child care is available during both Holy Thursday Mass and the Seder. See this event on Facebook.

• Good Friday – April 18
  Liturgy of the Hours – 9 AM, 12 noon, 2 PM, 5 PM
  Good Friday service for children & families, 3 PM  will include the Passion presented in a storytelling manner like Godly Play, a craft activity and contemplative walking. See this event on Facebook.
  Passion and Veneration of the Cross, 7:30 PM, our traditional Good Friday service, will be shorter than in the past with no sung Gospel and with a communal, rather than individual, veneration of the cross during the service.

• Holy Saturday –  April 19
  There is no 7:15 PM Mass on this Saturday.
  Lighting of the Easter Fire and Exultet, 9:30 PM – Gather at Easter Fire sculpture in parking lot, service processes into church to light the Easter Candle.
  Easter Vigil, 10 PM – 8:30 AM (All night!) – The story of Salvation is told through selected Old Testament readings presented in creative and artistic ways with breaks and refreshments between each hour. Come for as much or as little as you like. See this event on Facebook.

• Easter Sunday –  April 20
  See this event on Facebook.
  8:30 AM Easter Mass (Note time change from regular Mass schedule.) This Mass includes the Epistle and Gospel, Homily; Liturgy of the Water; and Liturgy of the Eucharist.
  Easter Breakfast for all and a visit from the Easter Bunny and an egg hunt follows the 8:30 AM Mass.
  11:45 AM Easter Sunday Mass (for late risers)
  Nursery care is available for both 8:30 and 11:45 Mass but there is no Liturgy of the Word for Children on Easter.

A note on parking:  On Sundays, our neighbors at Pressley Ridge, which is just across Fayette Street east of the Shot Tower, allow us to park in their lot.

The Lenten issue of Together Sharing Christ is now available.

The main avenue for distribution of this publication is on the website, though this link. However, TSC is mailed to all who cannot access it online or pick up copy in the back of church. The advantage of the online PDF version is you get the full benefit of seeing the artwork in color (and, of course, it saves paper). If you would like to change how you receive it, please send a note to Chris McCullough at chrism@stvchurch.org.

St. V’s application for a Jesuit Volunteer Corps member was approved! We will begin the matching process in the spring, and the volunteer, who will work with us full time for a year, will start in August. In our application, we proposed that the volunteer would both work with our youth and in our many social programs, such as the Friday dinner, The Resource Exchange, our food pantry, men’s clothing ministry and our park.

The Jesuit Volunteer Corps offers women and men an opportunity to work full-time for justice and peace. Learn more about this organization at the JVC website.