The holiest week of the year is soon at hand. As only one solemn liturgy is permitted each day for the Triduum and as we have grown in size we had to acquire new venues for this year, and are very grateful to St. William's Catholic Church and Royal Palm Academy for hosting us to make the Triduum possible for all, for which no reservation will be necessary. As the ceremonies will be solemn, both priests and seminarian will perform the role of priest, deacon and subdeacon, and therefore there will not be confessions during the solemn liturgies. Please take advantage of Mon-Wed for confessions. 

Please note the following schedule and be sure to invite someone new to participate in these most ancient solemn ceremonies:

Palm Sunday, Mar. 28 
7:15 AM - (low), St. Agnes, Naples
845 AM - (low), St. Agnes, Naples
1:30 PM - (low) Resurrection, Fort Myers 
4:30 PM -  Solemn High Mass. St. William, Naples
- Blessing of Palms and Procession is only done once at the Solemn Mass at 430pm. Palms will be available at subsequent masses in all locations. 

Holy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mar. 29, 30, 31
4:00 PM and 5:15 PM - St. Agnes, Naples
-N.B. - the Passion according to St. Mark and St. Luke are read on Holy Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. 

Holy Thursday, Apr.1
4:00 PM - Solemn High Mass, St. William, Naples

Good Friday, Apr. 2 
7:00 PM - Solemn High Service, St. William, Naples

Good Friday is an obligatory day of fasting for adults 18-60, and of abstinence from meat for all age 14+

Holy Saturday, Apr. 3
Time 10:00 PM  - Solemn High Mass, Royal Palm Academy (gymnasium)

• Propers for the Pascal Vigil can be downloaded.
• Holy Saturday Mass will end around 1 AM. It fulfills the Easter Sunday obligation.)
• Lighted candles are not permitted in the gymnasium. Electric candles will be available for those who wish to use them for supplementary reading light for the first part of the ceremony. If one brings a votive candle they can light it from the Blessed Fire at the end of mass to take home.  

Easter Sunday, Apr. 4
There will be NO Mass at 7:15 AM or 845 AM at St. Agnes
9:00 AM - Solemn High Mass, Royal Palm Academy (gymnasium)
-Easter Egg hunt for kids, coffee and donuts for adults will be available after mass till noon.

1:30 PM - (low) Resurrection, Fort Myers 

4:30 PM - (low) St. William, Naples

  A message from the meal coordinator, Catherine Yarbrough: We currently have 12 ladies who bring meals to our priests. We need a couple more assistants to feed our Fathers from Monday to Friday. Please contact me at [email protected], or text me at 239.503.1303 if you can help. Take a look at our web page if you want to know more details. Please do not sign up until you contact me. Thank you in advance for your generosity! May God reward you!  

Come one come all to our Corpus Christi Potluck next Sunday, March 28, from 11am - 3pm, hosted by Vidal and Adelita at 45 25th Ave NW, Naples, FL 34120.

All food and drink will be provided and sold. Enjoy homemade Brisket, Tamales, Tacos, Empanadas, and more. No need to bring anything. All proceeds go to our building fund. Build up the temple of your body, while you help us build our church :) 

A large tent for shade and chairs will also be provided.  

  The Men's' Group will meet Tuesday, March 23, 7pm-9pm, at the usual time and place. Fr. Romanoski will give the reflection on the 7 Sorrows of Our Lady, Coredemptrix and our role as coredeemers. 

  Please join the respective groups on our email list to receive more details as to place, recordings of previous talks and to RSVP to confirm your attendance.   

This Friday, March 19th, is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, in this special year dedicated to the Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Paternal Protector of the Universal Church. Being a solemnity, and one of the universal Holy Days, though not obliging in the United States, one need not observe a Friday penance of abstinence from meat. We invite all to Mass on this holy day, in honor of St. Joseph. 4pm low mass, 515pm sung mass. 

Stations of the Cross will still follow the 515pm mass. 

Queen of Angels Academy is pleased to announce our 2021 Catholic Homeschool Conference to be held at Christ the King on March 19-20, 2021! Cost is $20 for both days or $30 for couples. Go to QueenofAngelsAcademy.orgg for more information and to register. Featuring talks by foundress of Mother of Divine Grace School, Laura Berquist, as well as other home education experts and our own Fr. Hathaway & Fr. Mahowald. Two days of delicious meals included! Join us on the Feast of St. Joseph for a wonderful time of fellowship with other traditional Catholics. All are welcome, hope to see you there! Adults only, outdoor event. 

We kindly ask for your prayers for those who will be ordained deacons and permanently incardinated into the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, this Saturday, March 13 at 11am. Among them are Rev. Mr Jared Leonard, and Rev. Mr. Noel Soares, who have helped out at our apostolate. One can view the ordination live here 

 Fr. Romanoski will be gone this week to make his annual retreat and attend the ordination. 

As there were very many new families that signed up for house blessings this year, we were not able to visit all of them during the time allotted for Epiphany house blessings. We do retain the request information and will put the families that did not receive it first on the list for next year. Otherwise, we are happy to impart one of the various different house blessings at any other time. Please contact us directly to arrange it. 

Always be aware that false emails are occasionaly sent out pretending to be representatives of known organizations to which people belong. 

Recently a fraudulent email was sent out using my name (Jonathan Romanoski), with a fictitious email address of frrcorp****ristifssp@gmail attempting to contact some of our parishioners. Please disregard it. Our official emails are listed on our website- with the ip address as @corpuschristifssp.com, fr.r or fr.d @corpuschristifssp.com. We also use [email protected] or [email protected] at times in personal communications. Please feel free to contact us at those or call us to verify if there is ever any doubt. 

So please, disregard emails not sent from those email addresses, and obviously the only legitimate way to donate online is through the offical stripe link on our website which goes directly to our parish bank account. 

Under the noraml conditions (sacramental communion, confession 3 weeks before or after, prayers for the intentions of the Holy Father, and detatchment from all affection toward sin), the recitation of the "Prayer before a Crucifix" gains a plenary indulgence on Fridays during Lent.
"Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Thy face I humbly kneel and, with burning soul, pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity; true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment. While I contemplate, with great love and tender pity, Thy five most precious wounds, pondering over them within me and calling to mind the words which David, Thy prophet, said of Thee, my Jesus: They have pierced My hands and My feet, they have numbered all My bones. Amen."
The prayer can be found in the red misallette at Mass on pg. 65