Holy Week Schedule for Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, MV

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 13th, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. and Tuesday, April 16th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Individual confession in the church; Monday, April 15th, 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 13th & 14th: 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. Weekend Mass times are Sat. 5:30 p.m., Sun. 7:45 a.m., and 10:15 a.m.

Tuesday, April 16th: All night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Wednesday, April 17th: 7:00 p.m. Taizé Prayer around the Cross

Thursday, April 18th: No 7:45 a.m. Mass

TRIDUUM (Three Days) begins!

HOLY THURSDAY, April 18th, 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 19th, 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 20th, 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 21st, Masses will be at 7:45 and 10:15 a.m.

It is to our hearts that we need to go so that Jesus may die and rise there. As we celebrate Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum, we are not re-enacting historical events. We are observing them unfold anew in our lives, and celebrating our good fortune to be those observers and participants. We are the Body of Christ. We celebrate in Reconciliation and Eucharist a union that only Christ’s death and resurrection can achieve. Christ’s action takes place in us as we grow in our belief in the power of God’s love to make it so. Come join us in these celebrations!