Schedule
Sun, Jan 4
Regular Sunday Schedule
Blessing Table after 9 and 11 am Masses
Mon, Jan 5
7 pm Blessing of Epiphany Water followed by Benediction
Please label your salt and/or water
Tues, Jan 6
7 pm Epiphany Mass (Latin)
Wine, cheese, and treats reception hosted by the Marian Daughters in the Foley House
The garage rollup door will close at 11 pm. You may park on the street if you would like to continue conversing at the parish.
Blessing of Epiphany Water
Please bring water jugs with mouth openings wide enough to put in exorcised salt.
The Roman Ritual provides a strong blessing of Epiphany water that casts out all evil spirits, emphasizing the symbolism of water as a cleansing agent. Read article on Aleteia
Bless Your Home with Epiphany Chalk
20 + C + M + B + 26
“20” and “26” represent the New Year
The “+” signs represent the cross
C, M, B stands for the names of the Magi (Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar) and a Latin blessing, Christus Mansionem Benedicat (Christ bless this house).
The Epiphany House Blessing is an ancient tradition deeply tied to the Exodus Passover that places God at the entrance of your home and your entire family under His protection.
A household member can lead this beautiful blessing that brings many graces and protection against spiritual enemies. We will have kits for each family to take home with chalk blessed by Father Felix.
“...Take some of the blood [of the lamb], and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it ... The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:1-13