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2024: HOLY WEEK - EASTER SCHEDULE
LENT

  Holy Family Co-Cathedral - Kuwait City
  Our Lady of Arabia Parish - Ahmadi
  St. Thérèse Parish - Salmiya
  St. Daniel Comboni Parish - Jleeb Al Shuyoukh





General Notices




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Holy Family Co-Cathedral Parish, Kuwait City


PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS: Week Starting March 22

1. The Lenten Confessions will be on 25th, 26th and 27th March from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Priests will be available for confessions on these three days.

2. All the Holy Week Pontifical Masses of Bishop Aldo will be live telecasted.

3. The English Holy Hour will be on the First Friday, April 5th, from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

4. The Adoration Chapel is under renovation. During this period the 3rd Station of the Plenary Indulgence will be the Blessed Sacrament Chape (The Chapel of The Innocent Children). If anyone desires to support the cause for the Renovation, you can do so at the Parish Office. We appreciate your great patience and wonderful generosity.

5. The Parish Office will be closed during the Holy Week from 28th to 31st March.

6. All are kindly requested to gain the Jubilee Plenary Indulgence of St. Arethas during this Particular Year.

7. The Halls and the Classrooms during the Holy Week will not be available for any other activities except for Holy Week Services.

8. People who are bedridden, elderly or sick, and want to receive anointing, confession and communion, kindly call to register at the parish office.

For more details, please see the notice board.


Our Lady of Arabia Parish, Ahmadi

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS: Week Starting March 22

1. Parishioners are reminded that the Eucharistic Adoration on 28th March, Maundy Thursday will be from 9:45PM to 11:00PM at the catechism block. Let us all remain in prayer and ponder on Jesus’ words “Can you not stay with me for one hour”?

2. On 29th March, Good Friday the first English mass will begin at 6AM (and not at 6:30am as mentioned on the Holy Week schedule). After Mass there will be a procession from the Church to the Catechism block.

3. On 11th April Thursday our Parish will be making a Visit to Holy Family Co Cathedral for a Plenary indulgence of St. Arethas and Companions Jubilee Year. We will begin with a Holy Mass in English at 8AM at Our Lady of Arabia. After Mass, free buses will be arranged to take us to Kuwait City and back. Those interested to register, please fill up the registration form or visit the Parish Office.

4. Confessions for all parishioners registered for this visit, will be on Monday 8th April from 6pm to 8pm in the Catechism block.

5. Our Parish Priests will travel to Bahrain from 25th March for the Chrism Mass. Please do keep all the Clergy in your prayers.

6. We wish you all a prayerful and peaceful holy week. God bless you all.


St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus Parish, Salmiya

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS: Week Starting March 22

1. As we begin Holy Week we enter into the mysteries of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ. May this entire week bring us closer to Jesus who suffered and died for our salvation. Palms will be Blessed and distributed at all the Masses on Friday 22nd March, Saturday 23rd March (only evening Mass) and on Sunday 24th March.

2. Priests will be available for confession in English on Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th March, from 6:15 am – 7:30 am and from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

3. 28th March is Maundy Thursday. The Washing of the Feet will be done at all Masses.

4. 29th March, Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence. The Liturgical Ministry Commission (LMC) will be animating the Good Friday Meditation from 12 noon to 3.00 pm in Don Bosco School basement. Do join in the Good Friday Meditation on the Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross. The Salmiya Parish Youth (SPY) will animate a meditation from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Church after the service of the Veneration of The Cross. Do join in these spiritual moments of reflection on the Lord’s Passion.

5. There will be No Mass Intentions read for Palm Sunday, and during Easter Triduum. All Masses are celebrated for the intentions of the Parishioners.

6. During the Holy Week all parishioners are requested to please park your vehicles away from the church so as to avoid traffic congestion around the Church. Kindly cooperate with the instructions of the ushers and traffic wardens. Parishioners are requested to come only 10 minutes before the mass they want to attend, to avoid overcrowding outside.

7. The Adoration Chapel will remain closed from Maundy Thursday till Easter Sunday.

8. We are grateful to Fr. Vladimir Echalas, who preached the 3-day Retreat in Tagalog in our parish. It was well attended and many benefited from his preaching which helped us in prayer and reflection during this Lenten journey. Thank you, dear Fr. Vladimir.

9. The registrations for the Easter Blessing of Families can be done through the Parish App. Kindly coordinate with the other catholic families in your building and submit the form Online (preferably as a building) before 27th March 2024. It is not obligatory to make an offering to the Priest or the Parish for the Easter Blessing of your Family. All the families are warmly invited to ensure that your home is blessed at Easter time.

10. A Thanksgiving Mass for students of class 10 & 12 will be held on Tuesday, 09th April at 6:30 pm which will be animated by the Salesian Cooperators, followed by a fellowship for the students soon after the Mass in the Church courtyard.

11. The Eucharistic Ministers are organizing an Outreach program “Living with the Joy and Hope of Easter” for the home-bound, sick & the aged parishioners. The program begins with the Holy Mass at 6.30 pm on Thursday 11th April 2024 during which the persons will receive the anointing of the sick. Please register at the Parish Office by 09th April.

For more details on the announcements, kindly check the Parish App and the Church Notice Board.


St. Daniel Comboni Parish, Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS: Week Starting March 22

1. We are distributing blessed palm leaves on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. However, you may take palm leaf only once in these three days.

2. This is the jubilee year of St. Aretha’s. All are encouraged to gain JUBILEE PLENARY INDULGENCE during this year.

3. The schedule of the Holy Week is on the notice board.

4. The Lent is a season of fasting, penance, and almsgiving. What you save from fasting is for the poor and needy. Lenten charity envelopes are available at the parish desk. Please collect charity-envelop, put your contributions, and deposit them in the Lenten Charity box in the basements

5. Palm Sunday is on 24th March. We are celebrating it from Friday to Sunday.

6. Please do not bring vehicles and park on the church premises.

7. Please do not gather on the premises of the basements after holy mass.

For more details on the announcements, kindly check the Parish App and the Church Notice Board.


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