Anno Domini 2025, Lent III (March 23)

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Sunday, Lent III. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Monday (tomorrow): 10:00 AM, Mass, S. Gabriel, Archangel.
• Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Mass, the Feast of the Annunciation of the BVM.
  6:30 PM, Holy Rosary & Evensong.
• Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Mass, Lenten Feria.
• Thursday: 6:30 PM, Evening Prayer from Family Prayer; Holy Communion, S. John of Damascus, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor. Immediately following, Soup & Study.
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Mass, S. John of Capistrano, Confessor, with Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Stations of the Cross, followed in-turn by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
  STATIONS BY APPOINTMENT.
• Saturday: 10:00 AM, Holy Communion, Lenten Feria.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Lent IV, Mothering Sunday.

Inasmuch as we've had no lay-participation in the Friday-evening Stations of the Cross, they will be removed from the schedule. However, as has been the case ever-since we established 'Stations as a regular part of our Lenten devotions, if there is another more-suitable time, let me know, and we can sing them then. They are an important part of our spiritual regimen during Great Lent.

The just-concluded Clericus of the CAC was very informative. Much information was distributed, debated, and prayed-over. The peak of the Clericus was, of-course, the Consecration of The Rev'd Canon David Francis Sokol as the First Bishop-Ordinary of the Diocese of Saint Cuthbert. The fellowship was wonderful, the ceremonial and assemblage moving. We are marching-forward!

Easter Day is now less-than a month-away. Double-down on your devotions, on your sacrifices, on your admissions of guilt, on your preparations for that great and glourious day. Time ever-passes, but is only lost when we fail to make devoted use of it. I remain

in His praise,

The Rt. Rev'd T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish