Holy Thursday ~ April 18th
7:30 PM Mass of The Lord’s Supper

Good Friday ~ April 19th
3 PM The Passion of The Lord Service
7:30 PM Tenebrae Prayer Service

Holy Saturday ~ April 20th
8:30 PM Easter Vigil Mass (approx. 2 hrs)

Easter Sunday ~ April 21st
7:30 AM Mass
8:45 AM Masses
Church & O’Connell Hall
11 AM Masses
Church & O’Connell Hall

Please join us each Sunday after the 8:45 AM Mass in O'Connell Hall for coffee hour. Good coffee, good food and good fellowship!!  

THERE WILL NOT BE COFFEE HOUR EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 21ST. 

Saturday, April 20th from 10 AM to 12PM. 
Join us in making our church beautiful for our Lord’s Resurrection.
(Coffee and goodies provided)

PLEASE JOIN US
Saturday, April 27, 2019
5:30 PM in O’CONNELL HALL
Refreshments will be served
Guest Lecturer
Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Parkman Professor of Divinity and
Professor of Comparative Theology
Harvard Divinity School
“Being Catholic Interreligiously:
A Personal Insight into the Coming Church”

May 5th after the 8:45 AM Mass
Education Funding Crisis: A Call to Family and Community Education
Funding inequality has led to a crisis in our public schools. Education bills are on the current agenda of the Massachusetts legislature. Join us for a discussion of:

· WHY? Education funding is in the news: a brief history
· HOW? Current $$ levels have impacted our school systems
· WHERE? Sharon fits in; moral and economic perspectives
· WHAT? Are the major issues to be negotiated
· WHERE? You can make a difference: an invitation Presented by Sharon Interfaith Action

ALL ARE WELCOME!

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, youth and adults in the parish will have the opportunity to volunteer at the Special Olympics Track & Field Competition at Milton Academy.  We will meet as a group in the Bullock Center at approximately 7:45 a.m. (time subject to change) and travel together to Milton, and will return to OLOS around 4:00 p.m.  Many volunteers are needed to make this event happen, and we especially need adult chaperones/drivers. To sign up, visit the service page. For more information about this event , please contact Teresa Coda at tcoda@olossharon.org.  Thank You!

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PASTOR’S DESK

THE SACRED TRIDUUM- THREE GREAT DAYS

Thursday, Friday and Saturday/Sunday, April 18, 19 and 20/21 are called in church-speak the Sacred Triduum which means three great days. They are called this because on Holy Thursday we celebrate the “Last Supper,” the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood. On Good Friday, we celebrate the    Passion and Death of the Lord and on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday we celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord.
 
These three days are the high point of the church’s liturgical year. Of all the times we gather here, these days are the focal point of the great mystery we celebrate each time we gather for Eucharist. I encourage you to participate in as many of these three days as you can.
 
Thursday evening, the entrance into the three great days focuses on the institution of the Eucharist and the familiar “Washing of the Feet.” Jesus encouraged his disciples and us to wash each other’s feet even as he had done for them. At the heart of the Eucharist, he acted in service to others and sends this message clearly to us as to his disciples.
 
Friday afternoon, we commemorate the “Passion and Death of the Lord.” This service is not a Mass but a service including the reading of the passion and the special intercessions or prayers, the veneration of the cross and the reception of Holy Communion. In life, we all experience moments of suffering, grief, loss, disappointment etc. This is an opportunity to ally our experience to His and look forward to the promise that tomorrow will bring.
 
Saturday night, we participate in the Easter Vigil. The Vigil is the single most important celebration of the entire church year. We bless and light the Easter fire and the Paschal candle. We bring that light into the church and gradually illumine the darkened church. The light of the resurrected Christ comes into the darkened world and raises it up. The “Exsultet” the great Easter hymn, a capture of the joy of salvation, beautiful in word and song follows. Multiple Scripture readings proclaim the history of salvation from the creation of the world to the creation of a new heart in each one of us as befits the people of God. Baptismal water is blessed and baptismal promises renewed and the Liturgy of the Eucharist is celebrated. Here in one great observance the entire history of our salvation is captured. I encourage you to be there.
 
At each Mass, Christ calls on us to “Do this in memory of Me.” Memory doesn’t mean simply call to mind. It means “make it present in the here and now.” When we remember the history of our salvation, God’s saving love is made real in our midst. In the Eucharist past and future become present. More than any other time in the church year, these days invite us to remember that  we are the heirs to the promise God spoke through the prophet Ezekiel: “…I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Ez: 36: 27b).

~ Fr. Frank