The schedule of Lenten services from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday at St. Dominic is as follows:

Ash Wednesday

Masses, including distribution of ashes, for Ash Wednesday, February 17, will be celebrated as follows: School Mass, led by students in Grade 2, at 8:20 a.m. (in the church), Mass at the Northfield Retirement Community Chapel at 10:30 a.m., Mass in English at 5:30 p.m., and Misa, Spanish Mass, at 7 p.m.

Lenten Regulations

The Christian faithful are to do penance through prayer, fasting, abstinence and by exercising works of piety and charity. All Fridays through the year, and especially during Lent, are penitential days.

Abstinence: All who have reached their 14th birthday are to abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays during Lent.

Fasting: All those who are 18 or older, until their 59th birthday, are to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Only one full meal is allowed on days of fast. Two other meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to one’s needs, but, together, they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids are allowed. This obligation does not apply to those whose health or ability to work would be affected seriously. People in doubt about fast or abstinence should consult a parish priest or confessor.

Fridays of Lent

Stations of the Cross will be prayed in the Sanctuary of the Church on the Fridays of Lent–February 19, February 26, March 5, March 12, March 19 and March 26–as follows:

2 p.m., led by the students of St. Dominic School

6 p.m. in English

7 p.m. in Spanish (Via Crucis)

Note: On Friday, March 26, Stations of the Cross will be presented in Mime at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. by St. Dominic School students. There will be no 2 p.m. Stations of the Cross.

Reconciliation Service

Our Lenten Communal Reconciliation Service will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 21st. Several priests will be present to hear confessions.

Confessions are heard each week at 4:45 p.m. on Tuesdays, 5 p.m. on Thursdays (except Holy Thursday), and from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Saturdays (except Holy Saturday) in the reconciliation room of the Church (enter through the Chapel).

Holy Week

Holy Thursday, April 1: Bilingual Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m., and includes the re-commissioning of all Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. A meal, sponsored by the Hispanic Community, will be served at 8 p.m. in the O’Gara Social Hall. Eucharistic Adoration will take place in the lower level of the Church from 8 p.m. until Midnight.

Rice Bowls may be turned in beginning with the Holy Thursday Mass.

Good Friday, April 2: A bilingual liturgy will take place at 7 p.m. A collection for the Holy Land will be taken up at this liturgy.

Easter Vigil, April 3: Bilingual Mass will be celebrated at 8 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 4:  Masses will be celebrated at 8 and 10:30 a.m. and Misa at 12:30 p.m.

Temple of Aaron Visit

Shabbat Shalom service at the Temple of Aaron in St. Paul on Friday, March 12. Orientation at 7:15 p.m. Service begins at 8 p.m. Leaving St. Dominic at 6:15 p.m., driving together. Return around 10 p.m. Space is limited. Contact Fr. Denny to reserve a place.