Category: San Benito County

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• Sacred Paschal Triduum

  

  The brief liturgical season of the Sacred Paschal Triduum (Sacrum Triduum Paschale), also called the Easter Triduum, serves as a bridge or transition between the liturgical season of Lent and the liturgical season of Easter. Triduum is Latin for “three days”. The first day of the Sacred Paschal Triduum begins on Holy Thursday, 2 April 2026 with the evening Mass of…

• Chrism Mass

  

  SALINAS – On Holy Tuesday, 31 March 2026, the Most Rev. Ramón Bejarano, 6th Bishop of Monterey in California, will celebrate the Mass of Chrism at the parish of Madonna del Sasso, 320 E. Laurel Drive, at 11am. The Mass of Chrism “emphasizes the institution of the priesthood” and includes “a general renewal of commitment…

• Meditation on the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin

  

  HOLLISTER – On Friday, 27 March 2026, the parish of Sacred Heart & Saint Benedict will offer a Meditation on the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin at 7pm at Saint Benedict, 1200 Fairview Road. The meditation will follow the Stations of the Cross, which begin at 6:30pm. This Lenten devotion invites the faithful to reflect…

• Holy Week Confessions

  

  HOLLISTER – The parish of Sacred Heart & Saint Benedict will be offering the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation at several different times during Holy Week, all at Saint Benedict, 1200 Fairview Road.

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  Central Coast Surgeon Reflects on Faith and Medicine in Revised Edition of Saints and Healers CENTRAL COAST — A physician with deep ties to the Catholic intellectual tradition and the healing profession has revisited a work that continues to shape conversations about faith and medicine nearly two decades after its original publication. Dr. Edgar A.…

• The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation During Lent

  

  The liturgical season of Lent “precedes and prepares” for the great solemnity of Easter. It is “a time to hear the Word of God, to convert, to prepare for and remember Baptism, to be reconciled with God and one’s neighbour, and to have more frequent recourse to the ‘arms of Christian penance’: prayer, fasting and…

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  The Via Crucis, Latin for Way of the Cross and also known as the Stations of the Cross, is a revered Catholic devotion that retraces the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) of Christ in Jerusalem. The devotion “gradually spread through the Counter-Reformation Church and today remains one of the most popular public or private devotions…