Mass & Sacraments
The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions.
The Church celebrates the sacraments as a priestly community structured by the baptismal priesthood and the priesthood of ordained ministers. The Holy Spirit prepares the faithful for the sacraments by the Word of God and the faith which welcomes that word in well-disposed hearts. Thus the sacraments strengthen faith and express it.The fruit of sacramental life is both personal and ecclesial. For every one of the faithful on the one hand, this fruit is life for God in Christ Jesus; for the Church, on the other, it is an increase in charity and in her mission.
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The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments There are seven sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. This article will discuss what is common to the Church’s seven sacraments from a doctrinal point of view.
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1113)
Baptism is birth into the new life in Christ. In accordance with the Lord’s will, it is necessary for salvation, as is the Church herself, which we enter by Baptism. Read More
Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply in the divine filiation, incorporate us more firmly into Christ, strengthen our bond with the Church, associate us more closely with her mission, and help us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds. Read More
The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church’s life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.Read More
Discover the power of the Holy Spirit in the Sacraments
The forgiveness of sins committed after Baptism is conferred by a particular sacrament called the sacrament of conversion, confession, penance, or reconciliation. Read More
The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick has as its purpose the conferral of a special grace on the Christian experiencing the difficulties inherent in the condition of grave illness or old age.Read More
The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the “common priesthood of the faithful.” Based on this common priesthood and ordered to its service, there exists another participation in the mission of Christ: the ministry conferred by the sacrament of Holy Orders, where the task is to serve in the name and in the person of Christ the Head in the midst of the community.Read More
The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1799).Read More
Sunday Eucharist
(“The source and summit of our faith …” ,
II Vatican Council)
Please note new Mass Schedule …
Masses
Saturday
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (Sunday
Vigil Mass)
Sunday
9:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
12:00 Noon
Daily Masses
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
9:00 a.m.
Wednesday & Friday
7:30 p.m.
Mass Intentions: Please see Rose Ylagan at the Gift Shop after all weekend Masses.
Devotions
First Friday of the Month
Sacred Heart of Jesus
9:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m.
Legion of Mary
Seniors, Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.
Juniors, Fridays, 6:15 p.m.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.