Ash Wednesday
The Ash Wednesday Holy Mass at St. Valentine’s Church at 7:00 PM.
(Our Saviour Church, Lawrenceville, NJ at 4:00 PM)
February 2023
Pre-Lent Booklet
Pre-Lent Booklet has been emailed to you. Please print it and keep for your daily using. If you are not on our emailing list you can download it from our webpage www.stvalentinespncc.org, go to the tab “Bulletin” and search for date Feb 5 (direct link –> HERE).
The BOOKLET is 11 sheets of paper (22 sides) to print on both sides and flip on the short edge.
The season of Pre-Lent begins
The celebration of this season is a preparation for Holy Lent. The three Sundays of Pre-Lent come seventy, sixty and fifty days before Easter. The liturgical color of this season which prepares us to anticipate the spiritual rigors of the Lenten Season is rose. Lent then takes on the somber hue of purple signifying the seven-week period of penitence and introspection and our conversion of heart.
During Pre-Lent the Alleluia heard before the proclamation of the Gospel is eliminated from the Mass and will continue to be so through Lent until Easter morning. In place of the Alleluias, we will hear only a mournful chant called the Tract. Also begun in Pre-Lent is the elimination of the singing of the Gloria which will remain silenced through the Lenten season until the Resurrection of Jesus is proclaimed on Easter.
Floral adornments of the high altar are still appropriate through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, though such adornment may be abandoned if so desired.
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The Annual Parish Meeting
The Annual Parish Meeting will be held this year at St. Valentine’s Parish on Sunday, March 19, 2023, at 3:30 PM.
There will be two Masses on that day: morning Mass at 9:30 AM and an extra Mass at 2:30 PM.
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