This Sunday, April 23, Mass will be at 8 am. No afternoon Mass. What lovely thing will you do with your afternoon?

This Sunday, April 23, Mass will be at 8 am. No afternoon Mass. What lovely thing will you do with your afternoon?

Fr. Sandquist is ill, and so there is no Mass today in Chelsea, Oklahoma.

This past Palm Sunday at Our Lady of Fatima Chapel in Chelsea, OK, we immersed ourselves in the traditional Catholic ceremonies of Holy Mother Church. These rituals help us commemorate Jesus’s entering Jerusalem to the “Hosanna’s” of the people and visibly proclaim our Faith.
The Schedule for the Sacred Triduum in Chelsea, OK, is as follows:
Holy Thursday: Mass at 6:30 pm, followed by All Night Adoration
Good Friday: Ceremonies begin at Noon and will conclude by 3 pm. (The length of the ceremonies is equal to the time our Lord hung on the cross)
Easter Vigil: Confessions will begin at 9:45 pm. The Easter Vigil ceremonies will begin at 10:30 pm, followed by Midnight Mass. This will be the only Sunday Mass. The Easter Vigil is a day of Fast and COMPLETE abstinence from meat. The abstinence applies to those 7 and older.






Seminarians from CMRI’s Mater Dei Seminary in Persia, Iowa, assisted Fr. Sandquist as Saturday’s Day of Recollection drew to a close. Two conference talks and opportunities for meditation, spiritual reading, and confession filled the schedule.