HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE for OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CATHOLIC CHURCH, MILL VALLEY

If you would like to celebrate Holy Week and Easter with your local Catholic community, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, welcomes you! Our schedule is posted below -- do join us!

Reconciliation (Confession) Saturday, April 8th, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Individual confession in the church; Monday, April 10th, 7:00 p.m. in Church, Communal Reconciliation Service with an opportunity for individual confession. (Please note that these are the last opportunities to celebrate confession before Easter.)

Passion (Palm) Sunday April 8th & 9th: Palms will be distributed before all the Masses and blessed during the Mass. The formal procession of Passion Sunday will be at 10:15 a.m. Mass. Sat. 5:30 p.m., Sun. 7:45, and 10:15 a.m.

Tuesday, April 11th: 7:00 p.m. Taizé Prayer during Adoration

Thursday, April 13th: No 7:45 a.m. Mass.

TRIDUUM (Three Days) begins!

HOLY THURSDAY, April 13th, 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament follows in the chapel until 11:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, April 14th, No Mass. 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. (approx.) Prayer and Stations. 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday with communion. Ecumenical Service, 7:00 p.m. Peace Lutheran Church 205 Tennessee Valley Road .

HOLY SATURDAY, April 15th, 8:30 p.m. Together at this special Vigil Mass we celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord, beginning in darkness and moving in and towards His light. This is the major celebration of the Church’s year. (There will be no 7:45 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. Mass this day.) Participants are encouraged to bring with them a small piece of paper (3”x5”) with the names of those who have died since last Easter; these will be used in the Easter Fire to remember those who have entered through death into the eternal and resurrected life of Jesus.

EASTER SUNDAY, April 16th, Masses will be at 7:45 and 10:15 a.m.