Holy Week and The Three Sacred Days (the Paschal Triduum)

This is the last article in a series of Suggested Lenten Practices for 2010.

Lent 2010: A Journey into the Compassion of God

Palm Sunday begins our celebration of Holy Week; Exploring the fullness of compassion in “real life” situations.

Questions to explore this week:

• What does compassion look like, feel like, sound like in Jesus’ passage through death to life?
• How have you experienced compassion during suffering?
• What situations in your life and in our world are contemporary expressions of Jesus’ suffering and death?
• Did you realize compassion might break your heart?
• Did you know that compassion would lead you to surprising places and understandings?

Spiritual Practices:

• Experience the exploration of compassion in the prayer of community joined this week with all Christians in celebrating the “paschal mystery,” that fundamental mystery of moving through death to life in the way of Christ.
• Communal Reconciliation: March 30, 12:00 noon
• Labyrinth Prayer with Stations of the Cross: March 30, 11:00 AM to 8:30 PM (at your convenience)

Paschal Triduum

Holy Thursday, April 1:

• Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper 7:00 PM. (Eucharistic Liturgy with Foot-Washing; bring bread for the hungry). At the conclusion there will be time for prayer in the Chapel of Reservation.

Good Friday, April 2:

• Taizé Prayer – 6:30 AM and 8:30 AM
• Stations of the Cross – 2:30 PM
• Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (Liturgy of the Word and Veneration of the Cross) – 7:00 PM

Holy Saturday, April 3:

• Evening Prayer, 7:00 PM
• All-Night Vigil – 8:00 PM – 4:30 AM

Easter, April 4:

• Solemn Vigil – Sunday, April 4, 5:30 AM
• Easter Sunday Masses – 9:00 AM & 11:30 AM