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The Way of the Cross is prayed every Friday during the season of Lent in our parish. The service is at 7:00 pm on Fridays; on First Friday it will be at 6:00pm. Let us join in prayer as we recall the suffering our Lord endured for our salvation.

Lenten Lunches– The annual Lenten Lunches sponsored by the Rockaway Ecumenical Clergy Association will take place every Friday during Lent beginning on March 7th. The program takes place at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall beginning with lunch at 12 Noon followed by a presentation given by a different clergy person each week

Our Lenten alms project is the RICE BOWL sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. Rice bowls will be available in church for you to take home and place on our kitchen-dining room table as a reminder of the fasting and abstinence which is part of our Lenten observance. Money which you would normally spend on snacks and other non-essential food should be placed in the rice bowl and at the conclusion of Lent (Easter Sunday) brought to the church. The alms collected from the rice bowls is used to feed people throughout the world, especially in parts of Asia, Africa and Central America, where food insecurity is a serious issue. Alms giving is one of the major disciplines of the holy season of Lent.

Tuesday February 18 at 7:00 PM, please join us and the Purgatorial Society to pray for all the souls in Purgatory. Mass will be sung in the original language of our Church and will be a beautiful prayer on behalf of all those awaiting Heaven. Additionally, all are invited to enroll their deceased loved ones in society by going to PurgatorialSociety.Org. Your loved ones will then be included in the prayers at every requiem mass that the society celebrates.