OPENING THE DOORS OF ST JOSEPH PARISH- APRIL 17-20, 2025
Embark on a Holy Week mission to discover love and faith’s true power, transforming lives and hearts, including your own.
Embrace this journey to grow, connect, and spread boundless compassion.
Contact: Ken Sweet [email protected]
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APRIL 13–20, 2025
The 2025 Holy Week Missions theme – Hope Awakens – puts hope front and center in this jubilee year. Christ is the reason for our hope. He gives us hope. And he wants to make us witnesses to hope for every person we encounter.
What is a Holy Week Mission?
Holy Week Missions are a signature mission experience for Mission Youth & Family, an apostolate of Regnum Christi. Palm Sunday ushers in the holiest week of the liturgical year, during which Catholics remember and celebrate the fact that God became man and died on the cross to save humanity. From April 13–20 this year, Mission Youth & Family missionaries in numerous sites across North America will go out into the streets, sharing the message of God’s love. All around the world, Regnum Christi members and collaborators devote this week to serve their parishes, the poor, and those most in need, reminding them of God’s love and mercy—and awakening hope.
“This is the holiest week of the year, and we’ve got to make it holy,” says Fr. Michael Moriarty, LC, who serves in Philadelphia. “We’ve got to sanctify the week by praying together, by going deep in Scripture together, and then, heading out to the streets to spread the Gospel and to remind people that it’s not just another Friday, it’s Good Friday. It’s the best Friday, because it’s when our salvation was won for us, when Christ gave his life for us.”
2024 Holy Week Missions
Last year, during the 2024 Holy Week Missions, more than 3,500 missionaries at 23 locations across North America served over thousands of people, multiple parishes, and dozens of communities by living the spiritual and corporal works of mercy through a variety of events and activities:
2025 Holy Week Missions
This year, Holy Week Missions will be held at 20 sites across the United States and Canada: find one near you!
Mission Youth & Family missionaries at these locations will be spending Holy Week close to the heart of Jesus, experiencing the power of living out the spiritual and corporal works of mercy with missionary hearts, providing food and clothes to the homeless, ministering to at-risk communities, participating in downtown Crosswalks, visiting the elderly, and inviting parishioners to attend the Triduum Masses and receive the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation through door-to-door evangelization.
This Holy Week let Christ send us forth to bring hope to each other, and to each and every person we meet. Visit MY Holy Week Missions to find a Holy Week Mission near you, and watch the official music video of “Hope Awakens,” the theme song for the 2025 Holy Week Missions performed by RC Music Collective, here.
Mission Youth & Family exists to engage youth people, adults, and families in spreading Christ’s love through local missions and abroad, serving communities in their specific needs. To find out more about Mission Youth, visit their website at Mission Youth and Family – Regnum Christi.
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Holy Week is the holiest week of the year. It is the week we celebrate and remember that God became man, died and rose from the dead for us. There is no better time to go out as a missionary to share God’s love with others!
As Holy Week missionaries, we seek to accompany Jesus during this Holy Week, celebrating the deep mysteries. We feel moved to support our parishes and Churches, inviting others to celebrate that week with us. We go out to serve those in need in various ways, sharing God’s love.
Mission Coordinator: Fr. Adam Zettel, LC
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Holy Week ECYD Retreat
April 17-19, 2025
Our Lady of Bethesda
7007 Bradley Blvd
Bethesda, MD 20817
Contact: Natalia Santos
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Come join us this Holy Week for Mission!
Spend these days experiencing the power of living out the mission with other missionary hearts, whether you choose the full mission experience or just come to one of the many mission activities. To experience the mission within a community of apostles creates a greater sense of belonging and bonds of friendship that last a lifetime.
- Door-to-Door Formation: 1-2pm – Missionaries will receive training on proper ways to do door-to-door missions and have welcoming conversations at the doors. Separate trainings will be happening in both English and Spanish
- Door-Door Missions: 2-4pm – To kick off Holy Week, missionaries will go door to door in neighborhoods around St. Leo the Great Parish to invite neighbors to Holy Week masses and reconciliation times.
- Confessions: 3-5pm – Confessions will be available in St Leo the Great Parish
Palm Sunday (4/13)
- Missionary Sending Off Mass (bilingual): 11:30am – Missionaries will receive their missionary crosses during Mass and will be sent out to spread the Good News to the community throughout the week.
- Missionary Picnic to follow – Missionaries will gather after Mass to form community and get to know each other before missions begin.
Holy Thursday (4/17)
- Community Marketplace: 5 – 7pm – Help distribute groceries and other essentials to members of our community in need in the St. Leo’s parking lot.
- Holy Thursday Mass: 7pm
- Altar of Repose: 8pm – 12am – Spend the night in “the garden” with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament as the Holy Triduum begins.
Good Friday (4/18)
- Good Friday Liturgy: 12pm
- 7 Last Words Talk: Immediately following Good Friday Liturgy
- Street Missions: 3 – 7pm – Go in groups along The Alameda carrying a large wooden cross asking passersby for their prayer intentions, invite them to the Easter Vigil Mass, or just wish them a good day. Meet at St. Leo the Great Parish.
- Confessions: 1:30-7pm
Holy Saturday (4/19)
- Morning Missions: Join one of the following missions that will be happening simultaneously in the morning:
- Elderly Ministry @ Palm Villas, 3333 S Bascom Ave, Campbell; 10:30am to 12pm
- Homeless Ministry @ St. James Park, North 2nd Street, San Jose; 10:30am to 12pm
- Pro-life Prayer Vigil @ 1691 The Alameda, San Jose; 1-2pm
- Door to Door Missions @ St. Leo, 9am to 12pm
- Lunch separately with each Mission Team
- Cross Walk: 3 – 5pm – Groups meet at St. Joseph Cathedral (80 S Market St, San Jose) prior to 3pm. We will walk as one group from the Cathedral to St. Leo the Great.
- Experience Sharing: 6 – 7:30pm – Missionaries gather for dinner and share their experiences throughout the day.
- Easter Vigil Mass: 8pm – Missionaries attend the Easter Vigil Mass together at St. Leo the Great Parish.
88 Race St
San Jose, CA 95126
April 12-20, 2025
Mission Coordinator: Autumn Tran
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Holy Week is the holiest week of the year. It is the week we celebrate and remember that God became man, died and rose from the dead for us. There is no better time to go out as a missionary to share God’s love with others!
As Holy Week missionaries, we seek to accompany Jesus during this Holy Week, celebrating the deep mysteries. We feel moved to support our parishes and Churches, inviting others to celebrate that week with us. We go out to serve those in need in various ways, sharing God’s love.
208 Milmont Ave
Folsom, PA 19033
April 13-20, 2025
Mission Coordinator: Peter Stauffer
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Mission Youth exists to engage young people, adults and families in spreading Christ’s love through local missions and abroad serving communities in their specific needs. We believe all Catholic Christians are called and capable of being missionaries through their baptism.
Our mission is to the people we serve, and also to the missionaries themselves as we form them to be apostles, accompanying them in the practice of the works of mercy which open the door to share God’s love & evangelize.
325 W 8th St
Cincinnati, OH 45202
April 18, 2025
Mission Coordinator: Anthony Tepe
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Holy Week is the holiest week of the year. It is the week we celebrate and remember that God became man, died and rose from the dead for us. There is no better time to go out as a missionary to share God’s love with others!
New Orleans Holy Week Mission is April 16 – 20, 2025. Missionary activities include street evangelization, bringing food to the homeless, live stations of the cross, service projects, participating in talks, team dynamics, and liturgical celebrations. Missionaries will be staying in Algiers at the Youth With A Mission Property. Easter Triduum Liturgies will be celebrated at the Cathedral – Basilica of St. Louis King of France.
Holy Week is the holiest week of the year. It is the week we celebrate and remember that God became man, died and rose from the dead for us. There is no better time to go out as a missionary to share God’s love with others!
As Holy Week missionaries, we seek to accompany Jesus during this Holy Week, celebrating the deep mysteries. We feel moved to support our parishes and Churches, inviting others to celebrate that week with us. We go out to serve those in need in various ways, sharing God’s love.
6001 13th St NW
Washington, DC 20011
April 18, 2025
Mission Coordinator: DC Mission Youth & Family
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Alex Kucera has lived in Atlanta, GA, for the last 46 years. He is one of 9 children, married to his wife Karmen, and has 3 girls, one grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Alex joined Regnum Christi in 2007. Out of the gate, he joined the Helping Hands Medical Missions apostolate and is still participating today with the Ghana Friendship Mission.
In 2009, Alex was asked to be the Atlanta RC Renewal Coordinator for the Atlanta Locality to help the RC members with the RC renewal process. Alex became a Group Leader in 2012 for four of the Atlanta Men’s Section Teams and continues today. Running in parallel, in 2013, Alex became a Team Leader and shepherded a large team of good men.
Alex was honored to be the Atlanta Mission Coordinator between 2010 to 2022 (12 years), coordinating 5-8 Holy Week Mission teams across Georgia. He also created and coordinated missions at a parish in Athens, GA, for 9 years. Alex continues to coordinate Holy Week Missions, Advent Missions, and Monthly missions at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Cumming, GA.
From 2016 to 2022, Alex also served as the Men’s Section Assistant in Atlanta. He loved working with the Men’s Section Director, the Legionaries, Consecrated, and Women’s Section leadership teams.
Alex is exceptionally grateful to the Legionaries, Consecrated, and many RC members who he’s journeyed shoulder to shoulder, growing his relationship with Christ and others along the way. He knows that there is only one way, that’s Christ’s Way, with others!
