You are all invited to a free Lent Soup Supper !
Friday, March 20, 2020 5PM – 6:30PM
Followed by Reflections at the Foot of the Cross at 7PM
Menu: Soup, salad and bread
We will be accepting non-perishable food for St. Vincent de Paul.
After being nourished with good food and fellowship, please join us for Reflections at the Foot of the Cross, a beautiful service of prayer, story-telling and music led by the Heaven Help Us Players, sponsored jointly by St. Bonaventure and Nativity of Mary.
Reflections at the Foot of the Cross
Approximately every other year, Heaven Help Us Players, a cooperative ministry of Nativity of Mary and Saint Bonaventure Parishes, offers an extremely powerful prayer service titled “Reflections at the Foot of the Cross.” This year, it will be offered at Nativity of Mary Catholic Church on Friday, March 20th at 7pm. The evening will begin with a Soup Supper at 5:00pm, coupled with a collection of bags of non-perishable food for the St. Vincent de Paul pantry.
In the context of storytelling with Liturgical and Contemporary Christian music, ‘Reflections’ is a prayerful offering similar to a Living Stations of the Cross. Biblical voices – the Centurion, the disciple John, Veronica, Mary Magdalene, the Man Born Blind, Mary Mother of Jesus – offer their testimony surrounded by music led by singers and musicians from Saint Bonaventure and Nativity of Mary Parishes.
The vivid storytelling is the truly amazing feature of “Reflections at the Foot of the Cross,” drawn from the written visions of a Mystic of the Church, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824). It was during the last five years of her life that she began to write down the history of her visions which have become a treasury for many of the faithful. She was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II.