HOLY WEEK & EASTER 2023
Week Beginning Sunday 2ND APRIL
Holy Week is magnificent, challenging, powerful, exhausting, intriguing and utterly remarkable. Each year we dive out of our own space and time to be immersed in the great events of salvation - not as a memory or a story, but as a reality which changes our lives and world in a way beyond imagining. Much of this is achieved through the celebration of the liturgy. One of the most challenging aspects of the liturgy of Holy Week - and the Triduum in particular - is that it is diffeArent. It is not the usual day by day or week by week liturgy that our parishes celebrate.
Perhaps you have not celebrated Holy Week as a whole before, or even not at all. Give it a go, and see how marvelous Easter is afterward.
Perhaps you have not celebrated Holy Week as a whole before, or even not at all. Give it a go, and see how marvelous Easter is afterward.
All the major liturgies will be streamed live via our Facebook page
PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD'S PASSION
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0900 Lauds (Morning Prayer) 1000 BLESSING OF PALMS, PROCESSION & PARISH MASS 1800 Vespers & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament |
MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
of Holy Week
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0900 Lauds * 1830 Vespers (Evening Prayer) 1930 MASS & ADDRESS 2115 Compline & Adoration * Except Tuesday |
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THE SACRED TRIDUUM
Christ redeemed us all and gave perfect glory to God principally through his paschal mystery: dying he destroyed our death and rising he restored our life. Therefore the Easter Triduum of the passion and resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year. Thus the solemnity of Easter has the same kind of preeminence in the liturgical year that Sunday has in the week. The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with Vespers on Easter Sunday.
Maundy Thursday of the Lord's Supper
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0900 Lauds 1930 SOLEMN MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER & Vigil of Prayer ending with Compline @ 2115 |
GOOD FRIDAY OF THE LORD'S PASSION
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0800 Lauds
1130 Midday Prayer 1200 STATIONS OF THE CROSS 1400 SOLEMN LITURGY 2100 Compline |
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HOLY SATURDAY (Easter Eve)
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.
From an ancient Homily
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0830 Lauds 2030 THE EASTER VIGIL & FIRST MASS OF EASTER |
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EASTER SUNDAY OF THE LORD'S RESURRECTION
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0900 Lauds 1000 PARISH MASS 1800 Vespers & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament |
