HAPPENING and COMING UP at SAINT BONIFACE:

MARCH

EXPERIENCE MONASTIC LIFE!

Our second annual pilgrimage to Holy Cross Monastery will be from Tuesday - Friday, May 18-21. Join us for three days of rest, prayer, and experiencing the rhythm of monastic life in this glorious setting high on the west bank of the Hudson River in West Park, NY. Br. Bernard and other members of the community will bless us with the great tradition of Benedictine hospitality. For more information, contact Bob Griffiths by email, or call (941)349-5616 Ext. 354.

HOLY WEEK and EASTER

March 27 - April 4      Come Celebrate with us!

There is something each day to help you walk the Way of the Cross which leads to new life at Easter. The Great Three Days begin with Maundy Thursday, go through the night to Good Friday and lead to the first celebration of Easter at the Great Vigil on Saturday night.

March 27 Saturday ........Retreat to prepare for Holy Week 9 am to 2 pm

Palm Sunday.................7:45 (hymns), 9 and 11:15 am (choirs)

Monday in Holy Week.....7 pm Labyrinth walk

Tuesday.......................10 am Eucharist

                                     7:30 pm Tenebrae

Wednesday...................5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Maundy Thursday.........10 am Eucharist with hymns

                                     7:30 pm Eucharist with choir

                                     Watch through the night hour by hour

                                     12 midnight Prayers and Reading of the Arrest

Good Friday...................7 am Dawn Liturgy and Reading of the Trial

                                     *10:30 am to 12 noon Liturgy of the Cross

Easter Eve.....................8 pm Easter Vigil, Choral Eucharist and party

Easter Day.....................Festival Eucharists 7:45 (hymns), 9 & 11:15 am (choirs)

                                      9 am Church School processes to their Easter

                                              Story during sermon

*(please note the 10:30 am time for the Good Friday service, a change made after the frustrations of traffic and parking many experienced in recent years).