One of my favorite parts of Holy Week comes on Holy Thursday: the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass.

I love the quiet of that time. I love the way it keeps us in a spirit of prayer, that spirit of prayer that began with the Eucharist. But I also love that it invites us to move. To go from church to church, visiting the Sacrament in each of those sacred spaces. I’ve appreciated the drive that night from parish to parish. I’ve enjoyed the way each parish sets up its shrine for the Eucharist. I’ve appreciated the people I meet on the way—people from all our parishes, fellow travelers seeking to watch with the Lord for an hour (or two or three).

Now that I’m living in the midst of consolidation and linkage, I appreciate that dynamic even more. On Holy Thursday, we go where Christ is. Wherever he is. We do, and we pray with whoever happens to be in the room. That’s a powerful image of what it means to be Catholic, what it means to be Church.

I’d urge us throughout this week to keep the spirit of Holy Thursday in mind.

At Wednesday’s  7 a.m. Mass at Divine Providence Chapel, we’ll receive the holy oils, blessed by the Bishop at the Cathedral just the day before. We’ll receive those oils and send them out to St. Ann, to St. Boniface, to St. Lawrence, to the Catholic Community at SCI Muncy. We’re all fellow travelers, walking with Christ in all those communities.

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings at 8 a.m., we’ll pray Morning Prayer together at St. Lawrence Church—a beautiful way to begin these days with song and psalms.

Join us for Night Prayer on Thursday at St. Boniface’s Adoration shrine in the narthex at 11:30 p.m. to close out our night of travels. Come again—after whatever Good Friday Liturgy we make—at 8 p.m. by the Pieta in the narthex at St. Boniface for the same Night Prayer.

Blessing of Easter foods is moving this year to St. Boniface Church at 11 a.m. Holy Saturday morning. Easter egg hunts will be held at both St. Lawrence and St Ann’s at noon.

 And please bear in mind that the Easter Vigil is the Vigil for both St. Ann and St. Boniface Parishes. Help us welcome new Catholics on that holiest of nights, in that most beautiful of Masses at 8 p.m. at St Boniface.

Lastly, we’re welcoming St. Joseph the Worker parishioners to Easter Sunday Masses at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. at St. Boniface. Please be aware that these are their Masses—their clergy, their lay ministers, their musicians. Let’s be good hosts and good neighbors as we manage parking lots amidst all our comings and goings this Easter.