Holy Week
Holy Week Schedule
(day-by-day schedule of events)

Monday - Tuesday (March 21-22)

9:00am Mass (Rosary at 8:30am)

Wednesday (March 23)

9:00am Mass (Rosary at 8:30am)
6:00pm Mass
6:30pm The Light is On (Sacrament of Confession, until 8:00pm)
​6:30pm Eucharistic Adoration

Holy Thursday (March 24)

9:00am Morning Prayer (Rosary at 8:30am)
7:30pm Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (bilingual)
9:00pm Eucharistic Adoration until 5:00am​

Good Friday (March 25)

(day of fast and abstinence)
  9:00am Morning Prayer (Rosary 8:30am)
  9:30am Confessions (until 10:30am)
12:00pm Stations of the Cross
12:30pm Confessions (until 1:30pm)
  3:00pm Celebration of the Lord's Passion
  6:00pm Live Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis - Spanish with translation)

Holy Saturday (March 26)

  9:00am Morning Prayer with Blessing of Easter Food (Rosary 8:30am)
  9:30am Confessions (until 10:30am)
  9:30am Decorate for Easter (until noon)
  8:30pm Easter Vigil Mass (bilingual, until 10:30pm)
Holy Week Events
(by type of event)

Sacrament of Confession and Reconciliation

Wednesday, March 23  6:30 - 8:00pm
Friday, March 25            9:30 - 10:30am
Friday, March 25          12:30 -  1:30pm
Saturday, March 26       9:30 - 10:30am

Stations of the Cross

Friday, March 25         12:00pm
Friday, March 25         6:00pm (Live Via Crucis, Spanish and English)

Holy Thursday Adoration

  • The evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (7:30pm) ends with the removal of the Body of Christ from the tabernacle in the main body of the church.
  • The Eucharist is carried in procession to Creedon Hall, where it is kept overnight, to be distributed during the commemoration of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday.
  • After the procession, the altar is stripped bare, and all bells in the church are silent until the Gloria at the Easter Vigil.
  • ​Parishioners are invited to bring white flowers to place before the Blessed Sacrament during the overnight Adoration.

Live Via Crucis
​(Good Friday, March 25, 6:00pm)

  • GS parishioners present a live "Via Crucis" or Stations of the Cross. (Spanish and English) Starts at 6:00pm in the church parking lot.

Easter Sunday (March 27)

Easter Mass Schedule
  7:30am
  9:00am*
10:30am*
12:00noon
  2:00pm* (in Spanish)

*Mass in church and Creedon Hall; overflow parking and shuttle at Mt Vernon HS

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO OUR REGULAR SCHEDULE:
There is NO 5:00pm Mass on Holy Saturday (and no 6:30pm Mass in Spanish).
There is NO 6:30pm Mass on Easter Sunday.