Holy Week

 In Pastor's Notes-Fr. Ritche

This weekend, we begin the holiest of all the weeks in the Church’s liturgical seasons. This is the highpoint of our Church’s life. This week, we remember the greatest love offered to humanity. While it involves stories of betrayal, pain, suffering, and death, it is also about hope, forgiveness, courage, new life and unconditional love.

Holy Week begins with the commemoration of the Lord’s entry into Jerusalem and how Jesus was acclaimed the Son of David. People greeted Jesus with “Hosanna!” But we know that acclaim quickly changed to “crucify him, crucify him.”

This week we will also hear Jesus giving us a new commandment, “Love one another as I have loved you!” Jesus exemplifies service by washing His disciples’ feet and eventually the noble sacrifice of dying to save us from our sins. Jesus died on the cross, but that was just a prelude to the climax of God’s transforming love for us. And that love has remained with us – for every death there is a resurrection!

The stories shared during this Holy Week are a good starting point for our prayers and reflections. See yourself as one of the characters in these stories. What is God teaching you in taking on that role? What adjustments or changes might you need to make? In what way is God offering you hope and new life?

We offer rich, liturgical celebrations during this week, so I encourage you to be present, along with your family members, and friends, in all the services of the Easter Triduum.

Holy Thursday
8:30AM – Liturgy of the Hours
7:00PM – Mass of the Lord’s Supper – Livestream
8:30PM – Altar of Repose in the Gym until Midnight

Good Friday
8:30AM – Liturgy of the Hours
12:00PM – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, Veneration of the Cross, and Communion
7:00PM – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, Veneration of the Cross, and Communion – Livestream

Holy Saturday
8:00PM – The Great Vigil of Easter and with the Celebration of Initiation Sacraments – Livestream

Easter Sunday
8:00am – church
9:30AM Mass – church and gym – Livestream in church
11:30AM Mass – church and gym

I look forward to celebrating this Holy Week with all of you. Fr. Edgar, Greg Vohs the parish and school staffs, and I are praying for you always. May the Christ the crucified and risen Lord bless all of you abundantly.

Blessed Holy Week everyone!

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