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This Saturday five hour workshop will be broadcast via Zoom.

Couples are provided the opportunity for prayerful reflection and discussion of topics important to living the vocation of marriage within the context of the Catholic faith. Topics include Communication, Sacramental Marriage, Marital Intimacy and Responsible Love, Challenges to the Vocation of Marriage, and Stewardship.

FOCCUS: When you register for MAJ, you will automatically be registered for the FOCCUS pre-marriage inventory.

When Jesus first teaches his disciples that he must suffer, be rejected and killed, then rise (Mk 8:31), the response is that this cannot be the way to something great. But Jesus remains committed to God’s way of doing things. Mark’s Passion story tells just how committed Jesus remains to God’s will, dying alone but awakening faith in a lone Roman centurion. This year we will hear Mark’s Passion on Palm Sunday. We will spend this day looking closely at how Mark tells of Jesus bearing his cross and what listening to what Mark writes means for our discipleship and picking up our cross.
Father Joel Macul, OSB, S.T.L., was the abbot of St. Paul’s Abbey in Newton, NJ, from 1997 to 2015. Prior to that, he taught Scripture at Tangaza College and Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. He came to the monastery in Schuyler in January 2017 where he serves as prior.

Palm Sunday is in commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem in the last week before He was arrested and crucified. People lined His path, or waved palm branches, a symbol at the time of victory. This entry is believed by Christians to have been prophesied in Zechariah.

On Monday morning in Holy Week, the archbishop, joined by the priests of the diocese, gather at the Cathedral to celebrate the Chrism Mass. The Mass is at 11:00 a.m. At the Mass the archbishop blesses three oils — the oil of catechumens (oleum catechumenorum or oleum sanctorum), the oil of the infirm (oleum infirmorum) and holy chrism (sacrum chrisma) — which will be used in the administration of the sacraments throughout the archdiocese for the year.