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All activities at the parish have been cancelled until further notice. For the time being, we will continue to have Confessions on Saturdays from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM. However, if you are sick or have a compromised immune system, please stay home.
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Holy Week Masses and Other Devotions
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe has informed the parishes that the suspension of public Masses to guard against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) will continue through Holy Week and beyond. We do not know how much longer this will continue.
The Masses for the Easter Triduum will be live-streamed on Facebook with access through our parish website which is www.fatimachurchabq.org.-
Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord's Supper, 6:00 PM-
Good Friday
Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, 6:00 PM-
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil, 8:00 PM-
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday Mass, 10:00 AMAfter these liturgies have been live-streamed, we will also have a recorded version available afterward, if all goes as planned. We are still very new at this “streaming video” process and there have been some “hiccups” along the way, but we really appreciate the kind comments we have received from parishioners who are grateful for the chance to watch Mass from their own church.
It would be appropriate for parishoners to pray the Stations of the Cross this week, and pray the Novena of Divine Mercy at 3:00 PM beginning on Good Friday and concluding on the Saturday after Easter. May we all have a very blessed Holy Week! -
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Notes from the Pastor
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How quickly things can change! That seems particularly true in our current time as we respond on a daily basis to the changing threat of the Coronavirus, COVID-19. But as we reflect upon the events of Holy Week in Jesus’ day, we also recognize how quickly things changed at that time as well. The Mass for Palm Sunday (also known as "Passion Sunday”) begins with the Processional Gospel (Matthew 21:1-11) that recalls the joyous arrival of Jesus in the holy city of Jerusalem riding on the back of a donkey with crowds of people waving palm branches and shouting: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” The Scripture Readings for Mass later end with a reading of the Passion of the Lord, as Jesus is betrayed and tortured, denied, mocked and crucified. The very crowds who had welcomed him to shouts of “Hosanna!” later shouted “Crucify him! Crucify him!” as our Lord stood before Pontius Pilate.Read More -
Our Readings at Mass today go straight to the heart of our Catholic faith. They speak of death, and new life in Christ. In the First Reading, from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 37:12-14), we heard: “Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.” In the Gospel (John 11:1-45), the stone has been rolled back from the tomb of Jesus’ friend, Lazarus. Jesus commended that he come forth from the tomb and be released from all the wrappings that bound him up, and then set him free.Read More -
This Wednesday, March 25th, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord - nine months to the day of his birth in Bethlehem. The Gospel for the day is Luke 1:26-38, and it describes the event of the Annunciation, and encourages us to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary by placing our trust in God. The Archangel Gabriel greeted Mary with “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” These words brought confusion to Mary and troubled her. The angel spoke again telling her “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” Then we hear the angel’s announcement that Mary has been chosen by God to bear His Son, Jesus.Read More -
The image of mercy flowing like water is present in today’s Gospel (John 4:5-42) where Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman at the well. From the start, we know that this is no ordinary meeting: It is with a Samaritan with a mixed marital history, spurned by others to such a degree that she must come to the well at the hottest time of the day, when no one else is there. But there is someone there: Jesus! And despite her scandalous personal history and the social norms of the time which would have prohibited a man from speaking to a woman in public who was not his wife, Jesus speaks to her. And what a conversation it is!Read More -
Lent is a season of change; a season of transforming our spiritual lives. There seems a natural correlation since the very word “Lent” is rooted in a word that meant “spring” and we are all familiar with the changes that take place in springtime as the earth bursts forth with new life that has been dormant during the winter season. Unfortunately, while nature seems quite incapable of resisting the changes common to springtime, we human beings seem all too capable and willing to resist changes in our lives. Transformation requires energetic effort. It challenges and disturbs our comfortable patterns of behavior, even when those patterns may be harmful to us, either physically or spiritually.Read More
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Bp. Barron's Lent Reflections
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Friends, today’s Gospel is John’s wonderful narrative of Christ’s Passion. On the cross, Jesus entered into close quarters with sin (because that’s where we sinners are found) and allowed the heat...
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