{"id":87,"date":"2014-04-13T03:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T03:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-04-13T03:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T03:12:18","slug":"please-come-hope-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/please-come-hope-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Come. Hope for Everyone."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s taken me awhile (like 30 years!) to begin to under-stand what happens this coming week . . . Holy Week.<\/p>\n

I used to think of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday as \u201cChurch Week\u201d (a lot of time spent in church.) I was an altar serv-er in grade school and high school, so the week was spent practicing the very solemn and detailed liturgies of those days. Sr. Annella would drill them into us.<\/p>\n

The Triduum (Thurs.\/Fri.\/Sat – Sunday) was filled with washings, processions, cross carrying, incense, darkness and candles, all with a solemn almost mournful dignity. There was something mysterious and profound that you just couldn\u2019t put into words. Each was its own separate \u201cproduction\u201d, kind of like watching the Passion Play at Oberamagau.<\/p>\n

This all remains, but I think I understand it a bit better now. It\u2019s not a play or a movie, it\u2019s a re-presenting. The liturgy \u201cmakes present again,\u201d the saving actions of Jesus in Jerusalem that week. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised about this \u201cmake present again\u201d because it happens at every Mass. Jesus, in a non-bloody manner, offers his life on the cross for our salvation. We receive his resurrected body in our own hands, and we eat him as the Bread Broken and Given for eternal life.<\/p>\n

This is profound stuff. We\u2019ll never plumb the depths of God\u2019s love for us in Christ. But we can take a step. Come this week.<\/p>\n

It really is one event, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, The Son of God. It takes four days to re-present (Thursday through Sunday). Thursday presents the Wash-ing of Feet (Christ\u2019s commission to humble ourselves in service to our brothers and sisters) and the gift of the Eu-charist and priesthood at the Last Supper.<\/p>\n

Good Friday has us walk with Christ the sorrowful jour-ney to his death and a moment to kiss the cross on which he died for love of us.<\/p>\n

Holy Saturday is wrapped in silence throughout the day until sunset, when we light the new paschal candle and announce the Resurrection, and each carry our own can-dle, which now shares that same light.
\nThat night our catechumens will be baptized, and all will receive Confirmation and Eucharist. This liturgy begins the celebration of Easter.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning is a further joy as we peer into the empty tomb with Mary Magdalene and the apostles.<\/p>\n

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So, do you have to be \u201choly\u201d to celebrate Holy Week? Does your Lent have to be full of prayers and sacrifices? Both of these would be nice, but the answer is \u201cNo\u201d. It\u2019s a \u201ccome as you are\u201d presentation. God loves you as you are.
\nPlease Come!!<\/p>\n

One week to go. Let\u2019s use it for prayer, fasting and alms-giving. May God bless you this week, wherever you are on your journey.<\/p>\n

Fr. Tim<\/p>\n

PS. See the purple refrigerator page in the bulletin for times of liturgies.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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