St. MICHAELS'S CHURCH HOLY WEEK SERVICES & SPECIAL MASSES

The St. Michael’s Church Preservation Society is pleased to provide you with a list of Spanish language Holy Week services announced by St. Monica’s Parish to be held at St. Michael’s Church. We also want to announce the special celebration of two Masses at St. Mikes of Italian Saints that have a connection with current families in Atlantic City. On TUESDAY, MARCH 29 at 7 PM a Feast Day Mass of Saint Ludovico of Casoria (1814-1885) born Arcangelo Palmentieri in Naples, Italy a professed Franciscan priest & founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (Gray Sisters). He was Canonized in 2014. This saint is an ancestor of the Palmentieri Family of Ducktown and longtime supporters and parishioners of St. Michael’s Church. On MONDAY, APRIL 4th at 6 PM a Feast Day Mass will be celebrated for St. Gaetano Catanoso (1879 - 1963) born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. He is professed diocesan priest & founder of the Veronican Sisters of the Holy Face. He had a great devotion to the Holy Face of Christ, a growing devotion. He was Canonized in 2005. The Catanoso family in South Jersey own & operate Steel Pier. For the first time ever…there will be a WAY-OF-THE-CROSS through the streets of Ducktown on Good Friday at 3:00 pm. Our Spanish Brothers and Sisters will carry a full size cross in a living procession that will begin at the entrance of St. Michael’s Church at 3:00 pm and walk to 14 “stations” located on a route along Atlantic Ave., Georgia Ave. down to Fairmont Ave. and then return to St. Michael’s Church on Mississippi Ave. This WAY-OF-THE-CROSS will be unique, inspiring, and change the way you “imagined” the real Stations-of-the-Cross occurred 2,000 years ago. HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE (Spanish) Holy Thursday, March 24, 7:00 pm “Last Supper Mass” Good Friday, March 25, 3:00 pm; Readings on The Passion and Ducktown Street Procession of the Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday, March 26, 8:00 pm Vigil Mass Easter Sunday, March 27, 10:30 am “Mass of the Resurrection” TUESDAY, MARCH 29 (English/Italian) 7:00 PM: Feast Day Mass for St. Ludovico of Casoria (pictured below) MONDAY, APRIL 4 (English/Italian) 6:00 PM: Feast Day Mass for St. Gaetano Catanoso