Saint John Chapel Bulletin
1397 Brick Church Rd.
Bland, Missouri 65014
(Highway P and Brick Church Road)
March 29, 2026
Holy Week
Sunday, March 29, 9:00am
Second Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday), I cl., Violet t
Monday, March 30, 9:00am
Ferial of Passiontide, I cl., Violet
Tuesday, March 31, 5:00pm
Ferial of Passiontide, I cl., Violet
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Wednesday, April 1: No Mass
Thursday, April 2, 6:00pm
The Lord’s Suppeer (Maundy Thursday), I cl., White
Friday, April 3, No Services
The Passion and Death of our Lord (Good Friday)
Commemoration Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saturday, April 4: No Services
Sunday, April 5, 9:00am
Easter Sunday, dbl I cl., Gold / White
Officiant: Father Brendan Dardis, OSB
This is a Private Chapel dedicated to the Latin Mass and to the Traditional Sacraments
Prayer Requests:
Mother of Lu Prayer: After Mass at the Communion Rail every Sunday.
Confessions: 30 minutes before Mass: Rosary, 20 minutes before Mass
Collection: March 15:
Good Friday
Between about the VII century and the XIV, there was a liturgical service held in the afternoon in Rome but never Mass. The first part of the service, composed of readings, chants and prayers, was originally derived from the Jewish Synagogue service of the Sabbath by the early Christians, known as the Mass of the Catechumens. In ancient times, the service ended with the reading of St. John’s version of the Passion. This remnant of an ancient fore-Mass has been retained, on this one day, in accordance with the liturgical premise of preserving ancient practices of high value. Veneration of the Cross is the second part of the liturgy of Good Friday and is derived from Jerusalem. Originally, in Rome veneration was accomplished in the afternoon and began about 2:00 p.m. when a procession led by the Pope proceeded from St. John Lateran to the Basilica of the Holy Cross, and the relic of the True Cross was unveiled and venerated by the clergy, then the faithful. The Communion Service, which constitutes the third part of the Good Friday service, was restored to ancient practice followed in Rome in the VIII century wherein the faithful would receive Communion in silence from Hosts consecrated the previous evening following the recitation of the Pater Noster. The old Mass of the Presanctified dates to about the XII century and was a Gallican practice, adopted from the Eastern Church, which spread to Rome and was an effort to add solemnity to the rite by making it appear as if an actual Mass were being said. This rite was common in the East where rubrics, going back to the IV century, forbade the Mass to be celebrated on ferial days of Lent. It was a substitute. Reception of Holy Communion on Good Friday the faithful continued until at least the XVII century in Rome. How did it become the custom that the people did not receive Communion on Good Friday after so many centuries of reception? It simply grew out of the realization by the Church that people did not want to receive Communion except on rare occasions. The IV Lateran Council of 1215 had been forced to make reception of Communion mandatory, at least once a year, during the Paschal Season. By the time of Pius XII there had been a change of attitude, and the Pope restored the simple Roman practice and removed the dry Mass aspect. No Mass takes place on Holy Saturday in remembrance of the tradition that the Apostles spent the day in mourning for Our Lord. A vigil begins at twilight, or preferably later, so that the Vigil Mass of the Resurrection begins after midnight. The Vigil consists of the blessing of the new fire; the blessing of the Paschal Candle and procession; the readings; the blessing of Baptismal water and conferring of Baptism and renewal of Baptismal vows, the Mass and Lauds.