New Sunday Mass Schedule Starts in November
- Written by randyfronek
Starting with the first Saturday/ Sunday of November, we will have a new Mass schedule.
There will only be one Vigil Mass on Saturday – 4:00 pm at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Sublette – and then each Church will have a Sunday Mass.
In order to satisfy everyone’s desire to have an early Sunday morning Mass, we will start with a 7:00 am Mass at St. Patrick’s in Maytown, followed by an 8:45 am Mass in West Brooklyn at St. Mary of the Assumption, and conclude the
Solemnity of Sunday with the 10:30 am Mass in Sublette.
With the ending of Daylight Savings Time occurring on November 6th (that first Sunday), at least it won’t seem so early as we will have that hour ‘to play with’ or should I say ‘to sleep with.’
I toyed with not having, so early a Mass in Maytown, but I then remembered that when I first came Fr. Joel prayed a 7:00 am Mass in Maytown, followed by an 8:15 am Mass in Sublette, and a 9:30 am Mass in West Brooklyn.
We will call this our Winter Schedule and will revert back to the two Vigil Masses on Saturday and two Sunday morning Masses after Easter (in May of next year).
The number of Mass goers was getting ridiculously low at the 5:30 pm at St. Mary of the Assumption, and something had to change. I had promised (8 years ago) that at some point West Brooklyn would get to celebrate a Sunday Mass again; I’m just sorry that it took so long. Of course, changing any Mass time is difficult and it will take some getting used to, but I am hoping that having a Sunday Mass at each Church will inspire a greater participation in the Eucharistic sacrifice of our Lord.
St. Robert Bellarmine talked to his parishioners about how the ancients offered the holy Mysteries between the 3rd hour (9:00 am) and the 9th hour (3:00 pm), because it was 9:00 am in the morning when the Judaeans crucified Jesus by their tongues (refusing to let Pilate release our Lord) and at 3:00 pm when Jesus commended His
soul back to His Heavenly Father.
But Cardinal Bellarmine explained to his parishioners that ordinarily now (this would have been in the 1580’s) the Mysteries are celebrated between the first hour, that is dawn (or 6 am) and until midday.
Luckily (like your Pastor) none of us lives more than 10 miles from another one of our parishes. If your new Mass time is inconvenient, hopefully the Mass time at the next closest Church is favorable for you.
Yours on the Path,
Fr. Randy
