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Our Lady of Walsingham The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Under Protection of Our Lady of Walsingham Bishop Steven J. Lopes Father Charles A. Hough – Rector & Pastor Deacon James Barnett, Deacon Mark Stockstill

Deacon A. G. Stockstill, Deacon Scott Woloson – Pastoral Assistants + Palm - Second Sunday in Passiontide + 28 March AD 2021 +

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham 7809 Shadyvilla Lane + Houston Texas 77055 713-683-9407 + Fax: 713-683-1518 + olwcatholic.org Parish Secretary: Catherine Heath [email protected] Business Manager/Director of Facilities: Deacon Mark Stockstill Office Manager: Terri Bolton Director of Cathedral High School: Sr. Thomas Aquinas Director of Music/Organist: Edmund Murray Director of Events: Ana Newton Associate Director of Music: Chalon Murray Director of the Office of Liturgy: Rebecca Hill Director of Guild: Ruth Mack Director of Holy House Academy: Catalina Brand Director of CCD & Youth Ministry: Tim Caruthers Safe Environment Coordinator: Chalon Murray Life & Family Ministries Coordinator: Taylor Ehrhard

Call the Parish Office if you wish to. . . + become a Registered Member of Our Lady of Walsingham + explore the possibility of becoming Roman Catholic + schedule a Wedding or a Baptism + talk about the Annulment process + schedule a Confession by appointment

Welcome to Our Visitors

Thank you for sharing in the Holy Sacrifice of the with us today. Please fill out a visitor’s card (found in the pew racks) and return it in the offering plate so we will have a record of your visit. And please introduce yourself after Mass.

If you are a Catholic, we at Our Lady of Walsingham receive Holy kneeling and by (both species on the tongue).

If you are not a Catholic, during Communion we invite you either to come forward with your arms crossed over your chest, or fingers across your lips, and receive a blessing from the Priest or Deacon, or remain in your pew and reflect on the presence of Christ.

Prayer Intention of the Holy Father, Pope Francis Let us pray that we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God.

Altar of Repose on

You are cordially invited to spend time in prayer at the Altar of Repose after the Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper. Join members of our parish family at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham after the Maunday Thursday Liturgy, April 1 at 8:00 pm through 12 midnight and in St. Jude Hall from 12 mid- night through , April 2 at 12:00 pm.

In Our Parish This Week

Passion Sunday

Weekly Budget $ 17,850 Saturday, March 27 Saturday in Passion Week Regular Offering $ 25,304 8:00 am Said Mass [Jack & Mary Stewart+]

On-Line contribute on amounts are en- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual & Private Prayer tered in the weekly Regular Offering. On- 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Training - St. Jude Hall Line contributions can be made by clicking 3:45 pm Confession the “Donate Now” button at 4:00 pm Rosary for Vocations - Cathedral www.olwcatholic.org or you may mail your 4:30 pm Said Mass 60 Years & Older [Brett Goulas] contribution to Our Lady of Walsingham Sunday, March 28 : Second Sunday in Passiontide 7809 Shadyvilla Lane 7:30 am Rosary for Vocations-Cathedral Houston Tx 77055, if you are unable to 8:00 am Sung Mass [Parishioners of Our Lady of Walsingham] attend Mass. If you have questions 8:45 am Confession please contact Deacon Mark Stockstill at 9:30 am Sung Mass [Parishioners of Our Lady of Walsingham] [email protected]. 9:45 am Adult Forum - Chancery Great Hall 9:45 am CCD Classes - Seton & Newman Halls 11:15 am Begins at the Shrine with Weekly Votive Lights [Parishioners of Our Lady of Walsingham] 11:15 am LiveStream at olwcatholic.org the Votive Lights 1:00 pm Walsinghammers & Egg Project - Seton Hall of 5:30 pm Rosary for Vocations - Cathedral The Martyrs 6:00 pm Said Mass [Julian Bott+] burn this week for Monday, March 29 Monday in all those ill, especially 8:30 am Morning Prayer - Cathedral Roman Escobedo 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual and Private Prayer Susan Thurber Holy House Academy Classes on Break Carl Davis 12:00 pm Said Mass [Jesus Chao] 5:00 pm Evening Prayer - Cathedral Guillermo Gutierrez Tuesday, March 30 Tuesday in Holy Week Bill 8:30 am Morning Prayer - Cathedral Sergio Molina & Family 8:30 pm - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual and Private Prayer Sarah Giosi Family 12:00 pm Said Mass [Howard Chapman+] + 12:45 pm Rosary & Adoration - Cathedral the Votive Light of 4:15 pm Treble Choir Practice - Rehearsal Hall Our Lady 6:00 pm Evening Prayer & Benediction - Cathedral burns this week for Wednesday, March 31 Wednesday in Holy Week James Fisher & Mark Ferenz+ 8:30 am Morning Prayer - Cathedral Jean Lane+ 8:30 pm - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual and Private Prayer Hassen Cara+ Holy House Academy Classes on Break Paula Newton+ 12:00 pm Said Mass [Julian Bott+] Jules Bernard+ 12:30 pm Bulleting Folding - St. Jude Hall Pat Davis+ 2:00 pm Regis School of the - Confession + 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm Confession the Votive Light of 5:00 pm Evening Prayer St. Gabriel Thursday, April 1 Maunday Thursday burns this week for 8:30 pm - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual and Private Prayer Alice Harper Caswell 6:30 pm Solemn Mass & AudioSimulcast at theShrine For a Successful Adoption of Two Brothers LiveStream at olwcatholic.org 8:00 pm Procession to Altar of Repose - Shrine Sarah Scherf Family + 12:00 midnight -12:00 pm Procession of to St Jude Hall the Votive Light of Altar of Repose & Adoration St. Joseph Friday, April 2 Good Friday: Passion and Death of Our Lord 12:00 am - 12:00 pm Adoration at the St. Jude Hall Altar of Repose burns this week for 9:00 am at Planned Parenthood Arnaud Pichon 12:00 pm-3:00 pm Confession Baby James Catalanotto & 12:00 pm Stations of the Cross - Cathedral Family 1:00 pm Via Matris - Cathedral Laurie Schilling 2:00 pm Good Friday Liturgy & Veneration of the True Cross + LiveStream at olwcatholic.org The Votive Light of St. Jude 6:30 pm Good Friday Liturgy & Veneration of the True Cross Saturday, April 3 burns this week for Cameron & Courtney Bisig 9:00 am A Liturgy of the Word for Holy Saturday Linda Stegall 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Cathedral Open for Individual & Private Prayer Jerry Guerinot 8:00 pm Mass & LiveStream at olwcatholic.org + 11:00 pm St. Lawrence Grill - Shrine Campus Sunday, April 4 of Easter Day 7:30 am Rosary for Vocations - Cathedral 8:00 am Sung Mass & LiveStream at olwcatholic.org In Our Parish This Week [Parishionners of Our Lady of Walsingham]

9:15 am Easter Egg Hunt - Picnic Grounds Sunday, April 4 Solemnity of Easter Day 9:30 am Sung Mass [Parishioners of Our Lady of Walsingham] 11:15 am Solemn Mass 9:35 am Sung Mass with Treble Choir at the Shrine [Parishioners of OLW] 10:45 am Easter Egg Hunt - Picnic Grounds 5:30 pm Rosary for Vocations - Cathedral Adult Forum on Break 6:00 pm Said Mass [Parishioners of OLW] CCD Classes on Break

Holy Week & the Sacred Triduum Step by step, we now enter the holiest part of and draw close to the great Paschal Mystery of Our Lord's death, burial, and resurrection. With Palm Sunday, the second in Passiontide, we begin Holy Week and approach the Triduum Sacrum, the last three days before Easter Sunday. The season of Lent ends on the evening of Maundy Thursday with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Thus commemorating the institution of the Eucharist, we commence the Easter fast, keeping vigil with Jesus at the Altar of Repose. Then we enter the solemn drama of Our Lord’s Pas- sion on Good Friday with the Adoration of the Cross. We mourn in quiet and darkness until the new fire is kindled with Christ’s triumph over death at the Great Vigil of Easter on the evening of Holy Saturday. Fasting turns to feasting, sorrow to joy, and shadows to dazzling light on this “solemnity of ,” this “mother of all holy vigils,” as the Liturgy of Easter Even was called in the early Church. The ceremonies of the Sacred Triduum exemplify the power of liturgical drama, and in the ritual re-presentation of the Church enacts her twofold identity as the Bride of Christ and as the Body of Christ: she at once mourns for her Bridegroom, the Man of Sorrows, even as she becomes one with His suffering Corpus to rise with Him to glory. The last three days of Holy Week dramatize for us a great transformative pageant in which the audience becomes the actors, presenting the arc of an action that can be considered from a threefold perspective. First, the Triduum brings to a climax and a conclusion our preparation for Easter. Our penance, fasting, and ascetic discipline throughout Lent have served as so much spiritual training to ready our souls to imitate Christ in emptying ourselves that we might be filled with the Father’s mercy. Secondly, though, in another sense, these three days are already part of Easter itself, and not simply a prelude. The Triduum finds its unity in the paradoxical co-inherence of Christ’s death and resurrection--the two go together and sum up the Paschal mystery--and hence it is fitting that the Triduum only begins once Lent is over. If the Triduum thus simultaneously looks back to Lent and forward to Easter, in a third sense, these days can be regarded as complete in themselves and constituting a single trilogy or a three-act drama, staging for us and in us the unified action of Christ’s redemptive love. Dr. Clint Brand

The Adult Forum Faith Seeking Understanding: Adult Catechesis ~ Fides quaerens intellectum ~ Great Hall of the Chancery Sundays 9:45 am - 10:45 am

March 28 Mr. Eric Domuret “Communism and the Medieval Theatre: A Correlation”

For more information about our schedule and programs, visit the parish website at www.olwcatholic.org. You can also reach the CCD Director, Mr. Tim Caruthers at [email protected] or 713-683-9407.

Facilities Requests For meetings, events, or classes at OLW, contact the Events Office to speak with Ana Newton. By email [email protected] or contact the office at 713-683-9407. Thank you!

Holy Week — Triduum Sacrum Throughout Lent the Church has prepared us for the sacred experi- ence that comes with Holy Week and the celebration of the Paschal mystery. A steady crescendo in the Liturgy has been taking place since . Each week the sound rose higher and louder. Although Mother Church often spoke about the Cross and the Res- urrection, she did so in veiled signs and figures. Not until this mo- ment does she remove the curtain. Now we will see the Holy of Ho- lies and witness the Sacrifice of the Immaculate Lamb, and we are called this week to participate ourselves in the most sublime drama of religious history.

HOLY WEEK begins each year with Palm Sunday, which commemorates Our Lord's entry into Je- rusalem before His Passion, death, and Resurrection. The final three days of Holy Week are called in the Triduum Sacrum (translated as "Sacred Three Days" in English). Each day of this begins at sundown according to the ancient Hebrew custom still used in the reckoning of liturgical time. Each day in the Triduum fulfills one of the three main Lenten disciplines of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer, as we heard outlined in the reading of the on Ash Wednesday.

MAUNDY THURSDAY At the Mass of the Lord's Supper, our fasting is satisfied in the Holy Eu- charist as we receive Jesus, the Bread of Life. Nourished by His Body and Blood, we commemorate the institution of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. On this night the church is decked in festive white and the bells ring joyously during the . The priest imitates Jesus in washing the feet of men from the congregation, as a sign of the service He commands us to perform for one another as His disciples—hence this night is called Maundy Thursday from the Latin term meaning “commandment”. At the end of Mass, the tabernacle is left empty, and the altar and sanctu- ary are stripped of all adornment, anticipating the desolation of Good Friday. Before the stripping of the altar, the Blessed Sacrament is carried to an altar of repose (at the Shrine and St. Jude Hall) where we are invited to watch and pray in vigil throughout the night until 11:00 am on Friday. The faithful are asked, as the disciples were, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40). GOOD FRIDAY This day of mourning and fasting commemorates Jesus' death on the Cross, the ultimate form of almsgiving and the perfect pattern of self-sacrifice. On this most solemn day all the images in the church are veiled in black, we abstain from food, and we dedi- cate ourselves to prayer, meditation, and the examination of conscience as we reckon with our sins and our own responsibility for the murder of Christ. Between noon and three in the after- noon, we are called to contemplate the three hours' agony of Jesus on the Cross before He ren- dered up His spirit to the Father. We walk the Way of the Cross, and we seek to fathom the ineffable grief of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Liturgy of Good Friday begins in silence as the priest and ministers prostrate themselves before the empty altar. During the Liturgy of the Word, we hear the mournful words of Scripture and take part in a dramatized reading of the Passion according to John. Next are the Solemn , in which we pray for the needs of the Church, the whole world, and all peoples. This is followed by the Adoration of the Cross as the faithful come forward to kneel in veneration of our precious relic of the True Cross dur- ing the singing of the Reproaches. Finally, we receive Holy Communion from the , and then depart the Church in silence.

THE SOLEMN VIGIL OF EASTER When we keep vigil, we live as the Gospels command, with “lamps burn- ing ready . .. like those awaiting their master's return, so that when he arrives he will find them awake and will seat them at the table” (Luke 12:35). We wait, and everything begins again, all new, at the Resurrection of Our Lord. The Liturgy of the Great Vigil of Easter begins with the Lighting of the . Outside the church, new fire is kindled in the darkness, and its flame lights the Paschal Candle representing the light of the Risen Christ. The deacon chants the Exsultet, that ancient hymn of praise and the first joyous acclamation of the resurrected Lord. Next we hear the story of salvation, as told from the Hebrew Scriptures, a tale of types and shadows finding their fulfill- ment in Christ, the very Paschal Lamb of God. Then comes the Liturgy of Christian Initiation where the saints are in- voked and the priest blesses the font, the catechumens are baptized and confirmed, and we all renew our baptismal vows before being sprinkled with the newly blessed "lustral" wa- ter. Finally, the first Mass of Easter begins to the joyous intoning of ! Christ is risen!, the candles at the altar are lit from the Paschal Can- dle, and the bells ring out during the Gloria as we begin the first Mass of the Resurrec- tion. So ends the three days of the Triduum. They present us with the story of God's love and our redemption, the great mystery of our deliverance from sin and death, filling us with an joy which the Church continues to celebrate during the whole of the Easter season as the paschal candle burns at every Mass for fifty days until the Solemnity of . Palm Sunday March 28, 2021 Blessed Palms are widely recognized as a symbol of peace and victory, hence their preferred use on Palm Sunday.

Annual St. Lawrence Grill after the Easter Vigil Mass

The annual St Lawrence Grill will take place after the Easter Vigil, Saturday night into Sunday morning, April 3-4.

The first St Lawrence Grill was held in 2002, when a few parishioners who had kept the great fast (no food from Holy Thursday Mass until after the Great Vigil of Easter) were tired of finding no restaurants open so late on a Saturday night.

So we said, "Let's just get a few grills and do something here!" It was a small event, about a dozen people and a couple of backyard grills, but from such small beginnings great things blossom!

We've tried very hard all these years to preserve the original spirit--a shared, sometimes raucous, community meal. Grills with hot charcoal are provided, along with soft drinks and plasticware.

So, after the Easter Vigil Mass is over, the grills will be hot. Bring something wonderful to cook and/or drink. Steaks, sausage, fish (if you 're not sick of Lenten fish), vegetables, home-made or store-bought concoctions --even musical instruments. And bring something to share with those who come unprepared!

Christ is Risen! All should join in the feast, welcome the stranger, "he that hath no money, come!" (Is. 55:1)

St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, Pray for Us!

Mark your calendars! Friday, April 30th 6:30 pm Royal Oaks Country Club This wonderful event is the principal fundraiser for our in-residence choir, Chorus Angelorum. The choir is led by Edmund Murray, Director of Music for The Cathedral and assisted by Chalon Murray, Associate Director of Music for The Cathedral. How can you help? - Buy a ticket or a table - Make a donation - Provide an item for the silent auction: week end place, jewelry, gift certificates, antiques, art, sporting event tickets, horseback riding lessons, singing lessons, cooking lesson, etc. - Buy a raffle ticket or two - Volunteer: decorations, raffle ticket sales, set up

For more information or to volunteer contact: Karen Chapman 713.828.4464 [email protected] Michelle Crawford 281.250.2082 [email protected]

For silent auction contact: Becky Palermo 713-203-6520 [email protected]

Join us for the 6th annual Converging Roads medical ethics conference presented by the St. John Paul II Foundation, Catholic Healthcare Professionals of Houston, and University of St. Thomas. On the topic of The Heart of Health Care, this one-day conference offers continuing education for healthcare professionals rooted in the Hippocratic and Catholic ethical tradition.

Saturday, April 17, 2021 | 9:15 AM – 6:45 PM In Person and Online | St. John Paul II Foundation | Houston, TX Speakers: Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD; Father Philip G. Bochanski; Michael S. Parker, MD; and more!

In-Person Registration ranges from $69-$149 based on CME/CNE inclusion. Online Registration ranges from $39-$119 based on CME/CNE inclusion Student scholarship rate is $15 for In-Person attendance and $0 for Online attendance. For more information, please visit convergingroads.com or email [email protected].

ADORATION of the

SAVE THE DATE! BLESSED SACRAMENT Catholic Kids Camp Tuesdays 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm - Cathedral at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham + BENEDICTION + 6:00 pm - Cathedral July 26-30, 2021

Bulletin Folding for Easter

The members of the Bulletin Folding team will meet

Wednesday, March 31 at 1:00 pm in St. Jude Hall to Want to Help with Easter Day Egg Hunts? prepare all the leaflets for the Easter Tridium services. There will be much to do so additional help is gladly Would you like to help hide eggs before the Easter appreciated. Contact Catherine Heath at 713-683-9407 Egg huts? Be a chaperone in one of 2 hunting areas? to let her know you can help. Thank you! Contact Taylor Ehrhard at tay- [email protected] or text/call 713.444.9418. Shrine Shoppe News THANK YOU! The Shrine Shoppe will be open Walsinghammers Youth Group this Sundayfrom 10 am to 2 pm. We will be closed for filling the nearly 1,000 eggs Easter Sunday, April 4 and re-open that eager young egg hunters will find! Sunday, April 11 at 10 am.

Happy Birthday! March 27 – Kathryn Coulter, Sarah Logston, William Miller March 28 – Gregory Heerensperger, Anne Ryan, Ethan Alvarez, John Paul Talik March 29 – Franklin Bay Jr., Lauren Turner Wedding Inquiries March 30 – Pascal Sixdenier, Jeff Jimenez, Chiara Castillo Contact Rebecca Hill at [email protected] for March 31 – Patricia Bacot, Milton Bossier, Beverly Harmon, Paul Mascio, Robert Smith, Adam Kramer, Wedding requests. Contact Ana Newton in the Events Luis Ortiz Office for wedding reception requests at April 1 – Jennifer Tashenberg, Mark Wallace, [email protected]. Wedding requests be Angel R. Claudio, John Amelyan pre-approved 6 months in advance. April 2 – Leo Williams, Paula Stuckey,Elliot Polsky April 3 – Charlie Hough, William Marrs April 4 – Shanna Harris, Audley Heath, Elizabeth Seaton, Christopher Sharkey, Raquel Zlomke, Carolyn Verdina, Patrick Adams, The five large votives can each burn for a week in honor, John Paul Barnes, Jeremy Pawlak, Amaris Bobbio in thanksgiving, or in intercession, of your loved ones. Please complete a Votive Light envelope found in the

narthex and place it in the offering plate at any Mass or contact Catherine Heath at the Parish Office, 713-683- 9407, to request any of the five candles: St. Jude, St. Happy Anniversary! Joseph, St. Gabriel, Our Lady or the Martyrs for your Paul & Jocelyn Hayek - March 25, 2017 intention. Stipends of $5 may be mailed to 7809 William & Deborah Colton - March 28, 1981 Shadyvilla Ln Houston 77055 or paid on-line at Paul & Tamatha Caldwell - April 3, 2004 www.olwcatholic.org. Stephen & Namji Harris - April 4, 2000