Holy Spirit Catholic Church

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March 26, 2020

Bishop Robert Guglielmone has asked us to share this information about Holy Week.

Following the instructions given by the Vatican and the recommendations by local authorities due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases, there will be no public celebrations in any Parish of the Diocese.

Holy Week Masses will be livestreamed from the Pastoral Center, broadcast on the diocesan YouTube channel at youtube.com/DioceseChas and on Facebook Live at facebook.com/DioceseChas

• Palm Sunday, April 5 (No blessing or distribution of palms)
      Mass in English at 11 a.m.
      Mass in Spanish at 12:30 p.m.

• Monday, April 6
      Mass at 8:30 a.m.

• Tuesday, April 7
     Chrism Mass at 11 a.m.

• Wednesday, April 8
     Mass at 8:30 a.m.

• Holy Thursday, April 9
     Liturgy of the Lord's Supper at 8 p.m.

• Good Friday, April 10
      Liturgy at 3 p.m.

• Easter Vigil, April 11
      Mass at 8 p.m.  

• Easter Sunday, April 12
      Mass in English at 11 a.m.
      Mass in Spanish at 12:30 p.m.

For the Hispanic community, Fr. Orlando Serrano will transmit his Masses on Palm Sunday (12:30 p.m.), Holy Thursday (7 p.m.), Good Friday (7 p.m.), Saturday of Glory (8 p.m.) and Easter Sunday (12:30 p.m.) in Spanish on these Facebook channels: https://www.facebook.com/StMarkNewberry/   or https://www.facebook.com/Cat%C3%B3licos-con-F%C3%A9-123404062393580/ 

The Bishop asked also to communicate to you that all are dispensed from Fast and Abstinence for the duration of Lent, except for Good Friday.

Online Bulletin:  Diocesan Publications, our bulletin printing company, sent an e-mail that says: “With great concern over the health of our employees and their families, we will be temporarily suspending the physical printing of bulletins for the next two weeks.

"We have staff working remotely who will continue to process your bulletin files and distribute electronic versions via the myParish App, your parish website and DiscoverMass.com .”

This is the link to see our bulletin online:

https://discovermass.com/church/st-mark-newberry-sc/#bulletins

With appreciation and the best wishes for you and your family,

Fr. Orlando Serrano

(Note:  You can also access bulletins onlilne at :

https://discovermass.com/church/holy-spirit-laurens-sc/#bulletins   

You'll connect to the same DiscoverMass.com location where bulletins are also stored for Holy Spirit.  But since the same bulletin covers St. Mark, Holy Spirit and St. Boniface Catholic Church (in Joanna), you can read it or sign up to have it e-mailed to you through either link.)

For more information on the how the Diocese is responding to the coronavirus pandemic, go to  https://charlestondiocese.org/covid-19-response/ and for additional online resources and details about Masses livestreamed or recorded from other churches in South Carolina, go to https://charlestondiocese.org/covid-19-response/online-resources-masses/ .

THURSDAY:    5 PM (Prior to Mass)

FRIDAY:   7 PM     

TUESDAY:   1 PM to 4 PM

THURSDAY:   10 AM to noon