Mass at Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Lehighton will not be offered on Wednesday morning so that clergy may attend the Chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Catharine of Siena in Allentown, where Bishop Alfred A. Schlert will bless the oils to be used in several sacraments throughout the year and throughout the Diocese.

• Stations of the Cross will be offered at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, with the opportunity for the Sacrament of Penance (Confession) immediately following.

• Mass of the Lord’s Supper takes place on Holy Thursday at 6:30 p.m., and is followed by Eucharistic Adoration in the parish hall until Night Prayer at 11 p.m.

• Good Friday Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion will take place at 3 p.m., with Tenebrae service of Scripture and other sacred texts at 7 p.m.

• Easter baskets will be blessed on Holy Saturday at noon in church, and the Easter Vigil will take place at 8 p.m. Easter Sunday Masses are at 7:45 and 10 a.m., with an Easter egg hunt to follow on the church lawn.

•Confession will be offered on Holy Thursday from 8-9 a.m., and Good Friday from 8-9 a.m.

• We offer prayerful good wishes to parishioners who have received or are about to receive the Sacraments of Initiation. Recent “Confirmati” and their Confirmation names are Emily Bennage (Joan of Arc), Gabrielle Feller (Abigail), John McCormick (Carlo, after the new saint-to-be Carlo Acutis), Brian Mriss (Sebastian). We look forward to receiving Marianne Angelovich (Bernadette) and Douglas Romig (John) into the church this weekend. Next weekend the children who recently received the Sacrament of Penance will receive Holy Communion for the first time: Mackenzie Daywalt, Brielle Kistler, Kyle Mriss and Rhea Paukovits. Pray that others will be inspired to follow their lead.

• Our celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday on April 20 starts at 2 p.m. with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, continuing with readings from the Diary of St. Faustina, opportunity for Confession, and sacred music until the solemn chanting of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3 p.m. This is an opportunity to obtain God’s mercy for loved ones living and deceased by the prayers, detachment from and confession of sin required for a plenary indulgence.

• At 6:30 p.m. on his feast day, May 1, the church will offer Holy Mass with the intercession of Saint Peregrine, the patron saint of those who have cancer. Of course, anyone may attend any Mass, and every Mass intercedes for the Church and the world, with the focus our prayers on the health, safety, and salvation of cancer victims and survivors and their loved ones.