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The Deacon's Corner-A Reflection from Deacon Loris
The Deacon’s Corner…
Holy Week is Upon Us
Holy Week is the final week of Lent. It begins with Palm Sunday and ends with
Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. Holy week, which includes Holy
Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday is known as the “Triduum.”
On Palm Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem before His
crucifixion. As He rode into the city, the Jews gathered and threw their cloaks and
palm branches on the road before Him, exclaiming praises. We receive blessed
palm on that day and keep them in our homes as a witness to our faith in Jesus
Christ.
On, Holy Thursday we celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, commemorating
the institution of the Holy Eucharist. On this night Jesus changed bread and wine
into His own Body and Blood and commanded the Apostles and their successors to
act in His stead and re-present this sacrifice, that members of the Church would
also receive His Body and His Blood. Since that day, at every Mass, by way of
transubstantiation, the bread and wine offered by the priest becomes Christ’s Body
and Blood once again.
After the Last Supper we have a Vacant Church…the church, now without the
Eucharist is truly vacant…no vigil candle lit and the doors of the tabernacle are left
open, exposing the absence of Christ.
On Good Friday we are invited to remember the Passion of Christ as we make a
spiritual pilgrimage with Jesus to Calvary, a journey which opened the gates of
heaven for each one of us. The Church gathers for the Liturgy of the Lord’s
Passion with the reading of the Gospel account of the Passion, reception of Holy
Communion which was consecrated on Holy Thursday and finally the Veneration
of the Cross. As the Venerable Fulton has said, “unless there is a Good Friday in
your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
On Holy Saturday, the Church waits at the tomb and mediates on Christ’s
Passion, Death and His descent into Hell. With prayers and fasting we await
Christ’s glorious Easter Resurrection…and Mary is with us in spirit, representing
the entire body of the Holy Catholic Church
As she awaits in faith the victorious triumph of her Son over death, We too wait
with Mary on this Holy Saturday.
God bless…Deacon Loris
Holy Week is Upon Us
Holy Week is the final week of Lent. It begins with Palm Sunday and ends with
Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. Holy week, which includes Holy
Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday is known as the “Triduum.”
On Palm Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem before His
crucifixion. As He rode into the city, the Jews gathered and threw their cloaks and
palm branches on the road before Him, exclaiming praises. We receive blessed
palm on that day and keep them in our homes as a witness to our faith in Jesus
Christ.
On, Holy Thursday we celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, commemorating
the institution of the Holy Eucharist. On this night Jesus changed bread and wine
into His own Body and Blood and commanded the Apostles and their successors to
act in His stead and re-present this sacrifice, that members of the Church would
also receive His Body and His Blood. Since that day, at every Mass, by way of
transubstantiation, the bread and wine offered by the priest becomes Christ’s Body
and Blood once again.
After the Last Supper we have a Vacant Church…the church, now without the
Eucharist is truly vacant…no vigil candle lit and the doors of the tabernacle are left
open, exposing the absence of Christ.
On Good Friday we are invited to remember the Passion of Christ as we make a
spiritual pilgrimage with Jesus to Calvary, a journey which opened the gates of
heaven for each one of us. The Church gathers for the Liturgy of the Lord’s
Passion with the reading of the Gospel account of the Passion, reception of Holy
Communion which was consecrated on Holy Thursday and finally the Veneration
of the Cross. As the Venerable Fulton has said, “unless there is a Good Friday in
your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
On Holy Saturday, the Church waits at the tomb and mediates on Christ’s
Passion, Death and His descent into Hell. With prayers and fasting we await
Christ’s glorious Easter Resurrection…and Mary is with us in spirit, representing
the entire body of the Holy Catholic Church
As she awaits in faith the victorious triumph of her Son over death, We too wait
with Mary on this Holy Saturday.
God bless…Deacon Loris
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