Lenten Services and Programs for 2010
at the Sorrowful Mother Shrine, Bellevue Ohio

Stations of the Cross All Fridays of Lent at 10:35 am before 11:00 am Mass

Evening Confessions Tuesdays of Lent from 6:30 to 7:30
Shrine Chapel: February 23rd, March: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th.

February 17th Ash Wednesday & Eucharistic Adoration after Mass with:

2:00pm Chaplet of the Precious Blood
3:00pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy
3:30pm Benediction

February 28th Sunday 5:30pm Pilgrim Center Melting Pot Café.
Pot Luck Dinner & a Movie: Saint Padre Pio Miracle Man - The Priest Who Bore the Wounds of Christ.
Bring your favorite casserole / meal to share and discuss how the featured saint can affect your life.

March 7th Sunday 2:00pm Anointing of the Sick Mass in Shrine Chapel

March 14th Sunday 5:30pm Pilgrim Center Melting Pot Café.
Pot luck Dinner & a Movie: Blessed Andre, C.S.C.
Bring your favorite casserole / meal to share with all and watch a DVD and discuss how the featured saint can affect your life.

March 18th Thursday 6:30pm An Evening with St. Joseph
Become better acquainted with the Foster Father of Our Lord by viewing Joseph of Nazareth The Story of the Man Closest to Christ. This DVD will be presented the evening before the feast of St. St. Joseph.

March 20th Saturday 1:30 - 4:00pm Lenten Marriage Recollection Day
Pilgrim Center Melting Pot Café.

Exploring Sacred Scripture Sunday Mass Readings Coming Alive
This program will look at the Scripture Reading during the Lenten Season, especially those used on the various Sundays throughout Lent. This program will be offered on Tuesday Evening’s beginning at 6:30pm - 7:30pm they will be held in the Pilgrim Center in the Melting Pot Café. Make sure to bring your bibles. Both the Old Testament and New Testament will be referred to.

Lent / The Great and Holy Fast Through the Eyes of An Eastern Catholic
Fr. Yuri will present a series of presentations on how The Great and Holy Fast is observed by Catholics belonging to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The topics to be explored are: What Is The Great and Holy Fast? What Is Sundays of Forgiveness Vespers? How Does It Differ From Lent In The Latin Church? What Is The Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts, The Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and The Akathis Hymn to the Mother of God?
These presentations will be offered on February 25th, March 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th in the Pilgrim Center in the Melting Pot Café from 6:30pm - 7:30pm with a possible service to the Mother of God on the 25th the Annunciation

Ash Wednesday, Fridays of Lent and Good Friday
Please remember that Ash Wednesday and Good Fridays are days of fast and abstinence. All Fridays during Lent are days of abstinence from meat. All persons who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence; all adults are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of their sixtieth year. Nevertheless, pastors and parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound by the law of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of penance. (Canons 1249 - 1253)
Those who suffer from chronic or serious health problems should adjust their fast and abstinences and penances accordingly.