Holy Week/Easter Services in Burry Port & Kidwelly

Holy Week and Easter 2012 at Burry Port and Kidwelly

Timetables for Easter services, Masses, devotions etc. are available in the church foyers.

You can also see the timetable on this site (previous post and until Easter on the Mass Times page).

Easter Services

Please remember your Easter Obligations.

Easter Sunday Message from our Parish Priest

Alleluia, Christ the Lord is risen indeed! Our Redeemer Liveth! 

“If Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing is useless” ( 1 Cor. 15:14). 


At the beginning of the Holy Week, I sent out a message to you, encouraging you to celebrate the Holy Week in preparation for the Resurrection of our Saviour with hearts and minds that are worthy of the love Christ showed us in his sufferings and death. With the responses I received, I am glad that many of us paid attention to the message and I believe acted upon it.


Based on this I am so glad that our Church has greatly been renewed within this period, and I pray that the grace and the fruit of this season will abide with us forever.


The hallmark of the resurrection of Christ is VICTORY. Triumph over evil. Setting us free from the captivity of devil, St. Paul puts it more aptly “You were dead. You were in sin and uncircumcised at the same time. But God gave you life with Christ. He forgave all our sins. He cancelled the record of our debts, those regulations which accused us. He did away with all that and nailed to the cross. Victorious through the cross, he stripped the rulers and authorities of their power, humbled them before the eyes of the whole world and dragged them behind him as prisoners” (Col.2:13-15). 


Our actions henceforth should be perceived as sweet fragrance exhibiting love, charity and hope here in Burry Port, Kidwelly and in anywhere we find ourselves.


I want to seize this opportunity to thank you so much for the love and affection shown me on my 40th birthday, Thanks for the gifts and the cards, they are simply gorgeous. Thanks and God bless. Happy Easter to you all.

A Happy and Holy Easter to All

Parish Easter Mass times cards for Burry Port and Kidwelly Churches' front cover is pictured above.

Good Friday - Collection and Response

> Holy Places Collection: Collection will be taken for Holy Places on Good Friday.

> At the veneration of the Cross on Good Friday our response shall be:

  Venite, Adoremus (come let us adore him).

OUR PARISH PRIEST'S EASTER MESSAGE

Holy Week message from the Parish Priest:

As we prepare to celebrate the great events of our salvation, I want to implore us to approach this holy season with hearts and minds that are worthy of the love that Christ showed us, in his great sacrifice. Let us eschew all forms of hatred, gossips, rumours and ill feelings. Let us allow Christ to be rooted in all of our actions.

The “Exsultet”, the great Easter song which doubles also as the Easter Proclamation states clearly that the grace of this most wonderful event “dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy; it casts out hatred, brings us peace, and humbles earthly pride...when heaven is wedded to earth and man is reconciled with God!” You will agree with me that this is most gracious. PLEASE do not let us lose out in the grace that God is lavishing on us. Our act of appreciation to God for this greatest event in human history is to “climb the mountain of the Lord with clean hearts and pure hearts”

Please let us remain the salt of the earth and light of the world. We are witnesses of Christ!

Let us join of prayers and petition with St. Francis of Assisi;

O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.

Oh Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."

I wish you all a grace-filled Holy week and Happy Easter Celebrations.

Holy Week

* PROGRAM FOR THE HOLY WEEK WILL BE OUT BY NEXT (PALM SUNDAY)


  The blessing of the palm will be at the Church Hall. There will be procession to the Church from the Hall.

Flower Collection

* Flowers: Collection will be taken for flowers next Sunday(3/4/11)

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SERVICES 2010

OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA, BURRY PORT
&
OUR LADY AND ST. CADOC, KIDWELY

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SERVICES 2010


Tuesday 23rd March
7.00 pm Kidwelly: Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Wednesday 24th March
7.00 pm Burry Port: Sacrament of Reconciliation.

HOLY WEEK

Saturday 27th March
6.30 pm Burry port: Vigil Mass of Palm Sunday with Blessings of the Palms and Procession into the Church.

Sunday 28th March
10.30 am Kidwelly: Holy Mass of Palm Sunday with Blessings of the Palms and Procession into the Church.

Wednesday 31st March
11.30 am St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Swansea: Chrism Mass.


THE SACRED TRIDUUM

Holy Thursday 1st April
7.00 pm Burry Port: Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of the Feet and Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament to the Alter of Repose.

8. 15 pm Burry Port: Passover Meal in the Church Hall.

9.00 -11.00 pm Burry Port: Adoration before the Alter of Repose.


Good Friday 2nd April
2.15 pm Burry Port: Stations of the Cross.

3.00 pm Burry Port: Liturgy of the Sacred Passion, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion.
(A Day of Fasting and Abstinence)

Holy Saturday 3rd April
8.30 pm Burry Port: Solemn Easter Vigil.

Easter Sunday 4th April
9.00 am Burry Port: Holy Mass of Easter Sunday.

10.30 am Kidwelly: Holy Mass of Easter Sunday.

Passover Meal

PASSOVER MEAL ON HOLY THURSDAY - After The Evening Mass of The Lord’s Supper there will be an opportunity for parishioners to partake of a very simple Passover Meal of lamb and unleavened bread in the church hall at Burry Port to commence at 8.15pm. Anyone wishing to attend is kindly asked to put their name on the list on the notice boards as soon as possible so that the correct amount of food can be prepared without any waste. We also require a large picture of the Last Supper that can be displayed in the hall during the meal, if anyone has such a picture and could lend it to us for the meal, we would be very grateful. Thank you.

LAMB, UNLEAVENED BREAD, ROASTED EGGS – Please kindly give your name to Mary (after Mass this weekend) if you would like to supply any of the food (cooked lamb, unleavened bread, eggs roasted in their shells) required for the meal. Thank you.