April 15, 2025
Dear Friends,
In this most holy time, we at Terra Sancta Ministries wish you a holy Holy Week and a Happy Easter.
We will be open tomorrow, Wednesday of Holy Week, with our normal schedule. We will closed Holy Thursday and Good Friday,
We will be be OPEN on Holy Saturday (April 19) for Confessions only at 10:30 am. Two priests will be available. (There are never any Masses held on Holy Saturday.) We will be open for the week after Easter—Easter Week for all our normal open days: Third Monday (April 21), Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Below are some KEY DATES (not all of them):
April (Month of the Holy Eucharist)
- (Thurs. April 17) Holy Thursday & Third Thursday: CLOSED
- (Fri. April 18) Good Friday: CLOSED
- (Sat. April 19) Holy Saturday: Confessions only (no Mass): 10:30 am
- (Mon. April 21) Third Monday (Monday of Easter Week): 7:00 pm Holy Hour & Mass of Reparation
- (Sun. April 27) Divine Mercy Sunday: Schedule
(10:30 am) Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
(12:30 pm) Rosary
(1:00 pm) Holy Mass: Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM & Fr. Joe Lang
(2:15 pm) Exposition & Confessions: followed by the relic of St. Faustina: Veneration & Blessing
(2:20 pm) Talk: Sr. Mary Claire, ISMM (Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy)
(3:00 pm) Hour of Mercy: Chaplet of Divine Mercy & Eucharistic Benediction
- (Sun. April 27-Tues. April 29) Parish Mission at St. John Fisher Chapel University Parish (3665 E. Walton Blvd, Auburn Hills, MI 48326—near Oakland University): I will be the Mission Speaker:
- Sunday, April 27: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “The Master of Mercy: The Meaning of Divine Mercy”
- Monday, April 28: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “Abundant Insufficiency: Jesus’ Miraculous Manna”
- Tuesday, April 29: 6:00 pm Mass; 7:00 pm Talk: “The Bathing of Souls: Jesus’ Ongoing Mercy in Confession”; 7:30 pm Confessions
Let’s unite with Mary in uniting ourself to her Son in His Paschal Mystery. As one person said, “the Apostles having fled, during the Passion of the Lord, the faith of the Church remained in the Most Blessed Virgin alone.”
To communicate with me, please DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL but email me directly at [email protected] or call/text me at (313) 727-9784. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!
In the Poor and Crucified Christ,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries