Holy Week 2014 Horarium

Timetable for Holy Thursday - Easter Sunday

Holy Thursday              5.00pm     Mass of the Lord's Supper
                  (No Vespers)
7.30          Compline

Good Friday                (Day of fast and abstinence)
            3.00pm      Liturgy
            (Holy Communion may be received
            only during today's liturgy)
           
            7.30 Compline

Holy Saturday             (No morning Mass)
            5 .30pm     Vespers
            (6.00pm     Church closes)
            (l0.30pm Church reopens)

            11.00pm    Easter Vigil
            (This Mass fulfils the Sunday Obligation)

Easter Sunday
                10.00am    Community Mass
                6.00pm      Vespers

Holy Thursday 'On the washing of the feet Holy Week Year 1

Night Office

After missing the 2nd Reading, I heard a comment with the monks later and prompted to my curiosity.

The heading, "The Angels stood at.." the washing of the feet prompted to further search,and provides the fuller version in a Web Site (below).

The Links are rewarding.

Select Sunday>The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site Home>theWord>Thoughts from the Early Church

http://liturgy.slu.edu/Triduum_Easter2011/theword_journeyt.html  

Second Reading:  

From a homily by Severian of Gabala (Homily On the washing of the feet 15-21)

The angels stood at his side in awe, but the disciples were seated with him,
full of confidence

Thoughts from the Early Church Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper April 21, 2011 Reading I: Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14  Responsorial Psalm: 116:12-13, 15, 16bc, 17-18Reading II: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: John 13:1-15 Commentary: Severian of Gabala

To the end Jesus showed his love for them. The whole visible world proclaims the goodness of God, but nothing proclaims it so clearly as his coming among us, by which he whose state was divine assumed the condition of a slave. This was not a lowering of his dignity, but rather a manifesting of his love for us. The awesome mystery which takes place today brings us to the consequence of his action. For what is it that takes place today? The Savior washes the feet of his disciples. Although he took upon himself everything pertaining to our condition as slaves, he took a slave’s position in a way specially suited to our own arrangements when he rose from the table. He who feeds everything beneath the heavens was reclining among the apostles, the master among slaves, the fountain of wisdom among the ignorant, the Word among those untrained in the use of words, the source of wisdom among the unlettered. He who nourishes all was reclining and eating with his disciples. He who sustains the whole world was himself receiving sustenance. Moreover, he was not satisfied with the great favor he showed his servants by sharing a meal with them. Peter, Matthew, and Philip, men of the earth, reclined with him, while Michael, Gabriel, and the whole army of angels stood by. Oh, the wonder of it! The angels stood by in awe, while the disciples reclined with him with the utmost familiarity! And even this marvel did not content him. He rose from the table, as Scripture says. He who is clothed in light as in a robe was clad in a cloak; he who wraps the heavens in clouds wrapped round himself a towel; he who pours the water into the rivers and pools tipped some water into a basin. And he before whom every knee bends in heaven and on earth and under the earth, knelt to wash the feet of his disciples. The Lord of all creation washed his disciples’ feet! This was not an affront to his dignity, but a demonstration of his boundless love for us. Yet however great his love was, Peter was well aware of his majesty. Always impetuous and quick to profess his faith, he was quick also to recognize the truth. The other disciples had let the Lord wash their feet, not with indifference, but with fear and trembling. They dared not oppose the Master. Out of reverence, however, Peter would not permit it. He said: Lord, are you going to wash my feet? You shall never wash my feet! Peter was adamant. He had the right feelings, but not understanding the full meaning of the incarnation, he first refused in a spirit of faith, and afterward gratefully obeyed. This is how religious people ought to behave. They should not be obdurate in their decisions, but should surrender to the will of God. For although Peter reasoned in human fashion, he changed his mind out of love for God. (Homily on the Washing of the Feet in A. Wenger, Revue des Etudes Byzantines, 227-229) Severian (c.400), bishop of Gabala in Syria, was a strong opponent of Saint John Chrysostom and took part in the intrigues that led to his condemnation by the Synod of Oak. According to Palladius he was also responsible for the transfer of the exiled Patriarch from Cucusus to Pityus. which resulted in his death. Severian is important as an exegete of the strict Antiochene school. He had some popularity as a preacher. (top of page)

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Journey with the Fathers
Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels - Year A, pp. 50-51.
Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.
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Art by Martin Erspamer, O.S.B. (formerly Steve Erspamer, S.M.) from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical Year (A, B, and C). Used by permission of Liturgy Training Publications. This art may be reproduced only by parishes who purchase the collection in book or CD-ROM form. For more information go to:http://www.ltp.org/

Maundy Thursday 28 March 2013 Evening of the Lord's Supper

Priestly Life in Christ (Magnificat com Meditation of the Day)

I am now facing the last chapter of my life and I do not know what awaits me. I know, however, that the light of God exists, that he is Risen, that his light is stronger than any darkness, that the goodness of God is stronger than any evil in this world. And this helps me to go forward with certainty. May this help us to go forward, and at this moment I wholeheartedly thank all those who have continually helped me to perceive the “yes” of God through their faith.

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT  XVI

The Altar of the Chair in the Vatican Basilica
Friday, 4 November 2011

[Video]Photo Gallery

 Priestly Life in Christ

There are certain conditions to ensure growing harmony in priestly life with Christ. I would like to emphasize three of these, which emerge from the Reading that we have just heard: aspiration to work with Jesus in spreading in the Kingdom of God, pastoral duty freely given and the attitude of service.  

First, in the call to the priestly ministry we meet Jesus and are drawn to him, struck by his words, his actions, and his person. It is to have the grace to distinguish his voice from so many other voices and to respond like Peter: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God” (Jn 6:68-69). It is like being touched by the radiance of Goodness and Love that shines from him, feeling enfolded and involved to the point of wishing to stay with him like the two disciples of Emmaus — “Stay with us, for it is toward evening” (Lk 24:29) and to proclaim the Gospel to the world. God the Father sent the Eternal Son into the world to bring about his plan of salvation. Jesus Christ established the Church so that it might extend in time the benefits of Redemption. The vocation of priests is rooted in the Father’s action realized in Christ, through the Holy Spirit. Therefore the Gospel minister is the one who lets himself be seized by Christ, who knows how to “stay” with him, who enters into harmony, into an intimate friendship with him, so that all is done “not by constraint but willingly” (1 Pet 5:2), according to his will of love, with great interior freedom and profound joy in the heart.

In the second place, we are called to be administrators of the Mysteries of God “not for shameful gain but eagerly”, St Peter says in the Reading of this evening’s Vespers (ibid.). One should never forget that one comes into the priesthood through the Sacrament of Orders and this means exactly opening oneself to the God’s action by choosing daily to give oneself up for God and for one’s brethren, according to the Gospel saying: “You received without pay, give without pay” (Mt 10:8). The Lord’s call to the ministry is not the fruit of special merit but a gift to be received and responded to by dedicating oneself not to one’s own plan but to God’s, in a generous and disinterested way, for he sends us out according to his will, even if this might not correspond to our idea of self-fulfilment. To love with him who loved us first and gave all of himself and to be open to allow oneself to become part of that act of full and total love for the Father and for every human being, fulfilled on Calvary. We must never forget — as priests — that the only legitimate ascent to the ministry of the pastor is not that of success, but of the Cross.

In this logic, being a priest means being a servant also through an exemplary life. Be “examples to the flock” is the Apostle Peter’s invitation (1 Pet 5:3). Priests are stewards of the means of salvation, of the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and Reconciliation, not to dispense them according to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God. It is a life profoundly marked by this service: by care for the flock, by faithful celebration of the liturgy, and by ready concern for all brothers and sisters, especially for the poorest and most needy. In practising this “pastoral charity” modelled on Christ and with Christ, wherever the Lord may call you, every priest can completely fulfil himself and his vocation.

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Events of Holy Week unfold 2013

Dear William,

Thank you for the mail that came on Saturday an the eve of Palm Sunday.

 for Holy Week is gloriously enfolding the whole Paschal Mystery.

As the postman, alias sacristan, I was happy to bring your greeting card to each of monks.

We share 'as the events of the Holy Week unfold.

And in the love of the Risen Lord.

fr. Donald

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William W ...
To:  . . .
Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013, 16:40
Subject: Palm Sunday and Holy Week

Dear Fathers,

I have posted my greeting cards to arrive in time to unite with you on Palm Sunday. Not a traditional Easter celebration card, it is in fact a Holy Week greeting, that I may unite with you in the journey of Our Lord across those last days.

In case the post goes awry, I attach to this email images of the card with my seasonal reflection printed on the back.

I created this card using a photograph of a particular pastel drawing of Our Lord (my printer failing to reproduce it satisfactorily), which I have carried in my pocket file-book for thirty years! There are similar pastel drawings on the internet by the same artist, but I have never been able to find exactly the same haunting image. I came across an identical print in a little copy of the ‘Imitation of Christ’ just before Christmas when browsing in the second hand book shop, and I bought the book in order to have a new (more respectable!) copy of the pastel so that I could photograph it to share it with you for Easter! As to my reflection, 'Newness of Life', it tells of a fascination that has arisen in my mind and heart, of a deepening awareness that everything in our life connects with the life of Jesus - as uniquely in so many 'parallel' occurrences in his life, his very experience of creation. Thus have my thoughts wandered.

  

Very few Easter daffodils flowering here in the surrounding parkland! I watch on the weather forecast as the snow clouds settle over East Lothian, and imagine the snow all around you, blanketing you with its stillness. I pray that you haven't been cut off, isolated from supplies and support, but that you are feeling the benefit of the new windows, and ? new boiler. I felt such prayerful concern for you all when that awful bout of flu laid so many low, and pray that all may be well for you all to be together for the start of Holy Week.

An early summer retreat whispers its way into conversations . . . 

With my greetings

and my love in Our Lord,

William

ECCE HOMO !

From the pastel hung in the Corsini Palace, Rome

By GUIDO RENI (1575-1642)

Guido Reni produced such sermons in art as have profoundly moved the generations of men throughout the world ever since his time. Here is one of the most poignant pictures ever conceived and produced showing the "Man of Sorrows" in one of the acutest phases of His suffering:

Then Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. The soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe. Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and purple robe, and Pilate said to them,

'Behold the man”. (John19:1-6)

Guido painted innumerable pictures which are to be seen in all principal European galleries. He studied under Calvaert and Ludovico Caracci, and went to Rome in 1599 and again in 1605. Here he worked for the Church, and one can imagine that the prelates welcomed him as a painter who could move souls and stir the imaginations of their congregations. He left the Eternal City and migrated to Bologna, where he died in 1642.

   My kingdom is not from this world. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.

(John 18:36ff)

Easter Greetings

                (Colossians 1:15ff Amplified Bible – extracts)

“He is the exact likeness and the visible representation of the unseen God, the Firstborn of all creation, for all things were created and exist through him: and he is the Firstborn from among the dead, so that he alone in every respect might be preeminent: for it has pleased the Father that all the divine fullness, the total of the divine perfection, should permanently dwell in him, and God purposed that through his Son’s intervention, all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through him the Father made peace by means of the blood of his cross.”                                               

Uniting with you as we approach

the Joy of the Easter Celebration

in the love of Our Lord

Newness of Life

Parallels to the life of Jesus in the life of one who believes in His divinity have significance far beyond that of shared human experience: His incarnation gives true meaning to our earthly existence; His baptism and temptation, His ministry, His death and resurrection, all offer vocational interpretation for our faith. As each event in His life links one with another, the Spirit presents different aspects that draw us to Him in newness of life.

It  was essential that He be made like His brethren in every respect, in order that He might become a merciful sympathetic and faithful High Priest in the things related to God, to make atonement and propitiation for the people’s sins.[Heb 2:17 - AMP]

 I love to stand in the shadows of the garden and watch with Our Lady

As lovingly she sheds her soulful tears over Your lifeless body,

And listen as the grinding stone is rolled across the entrance to the tomb

Concealing the meaning of Your life shrouded in the mystery of death

Wrapped in grave clothes and placed in a lonely rock-hewn tomb

Where no one has ever been lain, life-giving Saviour rejected as before

When You were wrapped in swaddling clothes and lain in a manger

Where no room was to be found in man’s heart, God most abject of all

First born of all creation, You came to reveal the human side of God

Exposed to the experience of the whole of man’s earthly existence,

Curator of the eternal promises to bring healing and redemption

By Your death and glorious resurrection, first born from the dead

And so I ran to the upper room to bury my face in my chrisom-cloth*

But it was gone – I saw it wrapped around Your head in the tomb

There to be rolled up in a place by itself as You arose from the dead,

By baptism bound to You in death, unbound to live in newness of life

* chrisom-cloth - a white robe put on a child at baptism, used as its shroud if it died

We were buried with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we too might habitually live in newness of life  [Rom 6:4 – AMP].

Henceforth I live to and for God. I have been crucified with Christ - in Him I have shared His crucifixion; it is no longer I who live, but Christ the Messiah who lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith and complete trust in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. [Gal 2:19b-20 – AMP] 

Urgent: The Rosary on Good Friday

Good Friday Rosary - halfway through Lent

---- Forwarded Message -----
From: Andy Milwain ...
Sent: Friday, 22 February 2013, 18:51
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Good Friday Rosary

Imagine what might happen if every Catholic in the world would pray a Rosary
on the same day! We have an example in October of 1573, when Europe was
saved from the invasion of the mighty Turkish fleet, by the praying of the
Rosary by all Christians!

So, on Good Friday March 29, 201 3 , let us all pray a Rosary for peace in
the world and the return of moral values into our communities. If possible,
please pray your Rosary between Noon and 3:00 PM .

Also, please e-mail this message to every Catholic on your address list, and
ask them to pass it along to every Catholic on their lists. Let's unite in
praying one of the most powerful prayers in existence, for these intentions,
on one of the holiest days in our Church year.

Hi, Andy,

Thank you for the message re Good Friday Rosary.

It is timely as we come halyway through Lent; "We are almost to the half-way point in Lent and many of us are still struggling with our Lenten commitments. As we are heading into the Third Sunday in Lent and are anticipating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord – these wonderful resources will carry us into the Easter Season and beyond!" 

The Fatima prayers has been regular for these years.

These familiar invocations or aspirations get a great perspective from discovering the lives of the Fatima Children, beginning with the favourite Bl. Jacinta.  The Fatima Prayers are voiced in pages in the 'Bl. Jacinta and Francisco Marto Shepherds of Fatima', above.           
 Sister Lucia’s memoirs, 'Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words', her personal accouns of the Marto children.   

                   

fr. Donald.    
 PS.    http://sicsempertyrannisjmj.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/feast-of-blessed-jacinta-and-francisco.html

Fatima Prayers: 

Fatima Prayers: For Reparation for Sins through Mary's Immaculate ...

www.ourcatholicprayers.com/fatima-prayers.html

What's a bigger miracle, world peace or the sun dancing? Fatima prayers remind us that for peace in our streets we must have peace in our hearts, through ...             

Pardon Prayer

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You. 
I implore pardon for those who do not believe, 
do not adore, do not hope, and do not love You. Amen.

“Angel of peace” Prayer as taught 
to the “Little Shepherds”

Most Holy Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - 
I adore You profoundly and i offer You 
the most precious Body, Blood,
Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, 
present in all the tabernacles of the world, 
in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, 
and indifferences by which He Himself is offended. 
And by the infinite merits 
of His Most Sacred Heart 
and those of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 
I beg You for the conversion 
of poor sinners. Amen.

Eucharistic Prayer

Most Holy Trinity, I adore you! My God, 
my God, I love you in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

Sacrifice Prayer

O my Jesus, it is for love of you 
and in reparation for the 
offences committed against 
the Immaculate Heart of Mary
and for the conversion of poor sinners.

Penance Prayer

O My Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, 
for the conversion of sinners, 
and in reparation for the sins and offences 
committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
[Said when offering up personal sacrifices, 
sufferings and penance.

Decade Prayer

(After each decade of the Rosary)
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, 
save us from the fires of hell,
lead all souls to heaven, 
especially those in most need of your mercy. 

Prayer for the Canonization of
Blessed’s Jacinta & Francisco

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 
I adore Thee profoundly with all the powers of my soul 
and I thank Thee for the Apparitions 
of the Most Holy Virgin in Fatima 
which have made manifest to the world, 
the treasures of her Immaculate Heart.
By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 
and through the intercession 
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 
I implore Thee if it should be for 
Thy greater glory and the good of our souls, 
to glorify in the sight of thy Holy Church, 
Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto, 
the Shepherds of Fatima, granting us 
through their intercession the grace 
which we now implore. 

Amen

http://childrenoftheeucharist-waf.org/html/canonization_francisco_jacinta.htm