Parish Bulletin
26 February – 5 March 2017
Pastor:
Email:
Cell Phone:
Rev. Fr. Patrick Abbet
[email protected]
(434) 394 – 4967
Please limit phone calls to sacramental emergencies.
Sunday Schedule
7:20 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
5:00 p.m.
Low Mass & Confessions
Solemn Mass & Confessions
2nd Vespers & Benediction
Daily Schedule
7:15 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
Low Mass
Rosary
Other Evening Devotions
Thursdays:
Fridays:
7:00 p.m.
6:55 p.m.
Benediction
Stations of the Cross
February 26 – March 5
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
UNDAY
Quinquagesima Sunday
II
7:20
10:00
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
Main Altar: votive Mass of the Bl. Sacrament
III
6:50
Feria
IV
7:15
Ash Wednesday
I
See
across
Feria of Lent
III
6:50
Feria of Lent
III
6:50
Feria of Lent
Commem. of St. Lucius, pope & martyr
III
6:50
1st Sunday of Lent
II
7:20
10:00
February 26
ONDAY
February 27
UESDAY
February 28
EDNESDAY
March 1
HURSDAY
March 2
RIDAY
March 3
ATURDAY
March 4
UNDAY
March 5
Variations in the Schedule
Sunday February 26
5:00 p.m.
Vespers followed by Exposition of the Bl. Sacrament.
Monday February 27
6:00 a.m.
Reposition of the Bl. Sacrament
6:50 a.m.
Sung Mass of the Bl. Sacrament with Exposition following
Tuesday February 28
6:50 a.m.
Concluding ceremonies of 40 hour devotion
Wednesday March 1 — Ash Wednesday
7:15 a.m.
Low Mass — no imposition of ashes
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with blessing and imposition of ashes
Low Mass with imposition of ashes
All else as usual.
7:30 p.m.
Thursday March 2
6:50 a.m.
Sung votive Mass of O.L.J.C. Eternal and High Priest
Friday March 3
6:50 a.m.
Sung votive Mass of the Sacred Heart of O.L.J.C.
6:30 p.m.
Holy Hour
Saturday March 4
6:50 a.m.
Sung votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
6:55 p.m.
Benediction with sung rosary
Announcements
1. THE FORTY HOURS DEVOTION begins with Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament after Vespers of Quinquagesima Sunday and ends
with Benediction on Tuesday morning.
! A plenary indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who visit
the Blessed Sacrament for at least half an hour for the purpose of
adoration. Otherwise, the indulgence is a partial one.
! See the back of the bulletin for information on the history and
purpose of the devotion.
2. ASH WEDNESDAY, March 1, is a day of fast and abstinence obliging
under pain of mortal sin. It is not a holyday of obligation.
3. On Ash Wednesday, the faithful can receive the imposition of ashes
either at the 10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass or at the 7:30 p.m. Low Mass.
Ashes will not be distributed at the 7:15 Mass in the morning.
! For those who cannot attend Mass on Ash Wednesday, ashes will
also be distributed the following Sunday after both Masses.
4. LAWS OF FAST AND ABSTINENCE during Lent:1 In the United
States, abstinence is obligatory on all Fridays of Lent, except for 1st class
feasts. Fasting on all weekdays of Lent, though not obligatory under
pain of sin, is “strongly recommended” (decision of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Nov. 18, 1966).
1
Taken from the Angelus Press 2017 Liturgical Calendar.
The Forty Hours’ Devotion
Its history and significance
T
he Forty Hours’ Devotion is a solemn form of prayer in which
the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and continuously adored for the
duration of forty hours, both in order to make reparation for sin
and to ward off evils that threaten the Church or civil society.
The space of forty hours is symbolic of the time that Christ’s sacred Body
lay in the sepulcher, or else of the forty day fast that our Lord undertook
at the beginning of his public ministry.
This devotion originated with the Capuchin friar Guiseppe da Ferno, who
in the year 1537 exposed the Blessed Sacrament in the cathedral of Milan
for continuous adoration as a Lenten act of reparation, preaching a
ferverino on the Passion of our Lord once every hour. After the first
forty hours, he carried the Blessed Sacrament in solemn procession to
another church in the city, where the same period of exposition was
renewed. The exposition was thus continued in one church after another,
soon becoming a perpetual institution for the city.
St. Philip Neri adopted a similar practice in Rome, exposing the Blessed
Sacrament at the beginning of every month. The Jesuits held it annually
during the Carnival,2 which comprises the days immediately preceding the
start of Lent, in reparation for the immoderate feasting and sins of
intemperance committed by many in anticipation of the approaching
Lenten fast.
Less than two years after the devotion was begun, Pope Paul III attached
indulgences to it, recommending the practice as a means of reparation for
the offences of Christians and of impetration to stop the invasion of the
Turks. In 1592, Pope Clement VIII prescribed continuous observance of
the Forty Hours Devotion for the entire city of Rome to counteract the
threat of the Turks and the Huguenots. In 1731 Pope Clement XII gave
the devotion its final and definitive form by issuing the Clementine
Instruction, a set of rubrics that serves also as the norm for all ordinary
expositions and benedictions of the Blessed Sacrament.3
2
The term ‘carnival’, in fact, comes from the Latin words carni and vale, meaning,
“goodbye to meat.”
3
Sources: the Catholic Encyclopedia; Handbook for Forty Hours' Adoration by R. D.
Unger (1949).