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Holy Week : The Easter Triduum
March 24 to 26
Our long journey to the font culminates in the three days that make up the Easter Triduum.
These three days draw us into the mystery of our salvation.
How do we prepare for these holy days? By taking just a few minutes each day
to understand the liturgies we will participate in during
Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil.
Click on the links above and read them ahead of time -
or out loud at the family dinner table before you go.
It will help better understand the rites and symbols we will see.
Or print off the “printable” versions at the top of this page and carry it with you to Church.
It will give each of the rituals so much more meaning.
Whatever we are doing these days, these prayers and
resources can help us be open to the graces the day offers.
Each morning, we can pause to acknowledge the meaning of the day ahead.
Each night, we can give thanks.
Even if we can't celebrate these days liturgically,
we can reflect upon the symbols and rituals,
and let the prayers of the liturgies draw us in.
All, that we might know the depth of the love being offered us,
and power of the gift of life won for us.
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Holy Thursday
March 24
“Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.”
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Collect:
O God, who anointed your Only Begotten Son with the Holy Spirit
and made him Christ and Lord,
graciously grant
that, being made sharers in his consecration,
we may bear witness to your Redemption in the world.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Today's Readings
Daily Meditation:
You gave us an example to imitate.
Holy Thursday is one of the truly marvelous days in our faith community.
We celebrate the gift of the love of Jesus,
given to us for our nourishment -
given to us as an example of self-less love.
In our prayer today, we let our Lord wash our feet - love us unconditionally -
and we let Jesus be broken and given for us.
We pray that we might be faithful to the one commandment of Jesus -
that we might love others in the same way that we have been loved.
Where charity and love are found,
there is God.
Today's Daily Reflection
Intercessions:
The Father anointed Christ with the Holy Spirit
to proclaim forgiveness to those in bondage.
Let us humbly call upon the eternal priest:
Lord, have mercy on us.
You went up to Jerusalem to suffer and so enter into your glory,
- bring your Church to the Passover feast of heaven.
You were lifted high on the cross and pierced by the soldier's lance,
- heal our wounds.
You made the cross the tree of life,
- give its fruit to those reborn in baptism.
On the cross you forgave the repentant thief,
- forgive us our sins.
Closing Prayer:
Loving Provider,
you gather me in this upper room with your son,
to be fed by your love.
At that supper, Jesus told us to 'love one another'
and I know that is the heart of his gift,
his sacrifice for me.
I ask that I might find the source of my own heart,
the meaning for my own life,
in that Eucharist.
Guide me to the fullness of your love and life.
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May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
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Good Friday
March 25
“Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.”
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Prayer:
Remember your mercies, O Lord,
and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants,
for whom Christ your Son,
by the shedding of his Blood,
established the Paschal Mystery.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Or:
O God, who by the Passion of Christ your Son, our Lord,
abolished the death inherited from ancient sin
by every succeeding generation,
grant that just as, being conformed to him,
we have borne by the law of nature
the image of the man on earth,
so by the sanctification of grace
we may bear the image of the Man of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
Today's Readings
Daily Meditation:
This is the wood of the cross,
on which hung the Savior of the world.
Come, let us worship.
This is a very special day of intimacy with our Lord.
It is a day to pray the Stations of the Cross.
A day of fasting and abstinence, in order to sharpen our awareness and openness.
A day to stand at the foot of the cross as a forgiven sinner -
to stand there side-by-side with everyone else who is forgiven.
It is a day of profound gratitude.
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I offended you? Answer me.
Good Friday Reproaches.
Today's Daily Reflection
Intercessions:
For our sake our Redeemer suffered death and was buried, and rose again.
With heartfelt love let us adore him, and pray:
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ our teacher, for our sake you were obedient even to accepting death,
- teach us to obey the Father's will in all things.
Christ our life, by your death on the cross you destroyed the power of evil and death,
- may we die with you, to rise with you in glory.
Christ our King, you became an outcast among us, a worm and no man,
- teach us the humility by which you saved the world.
Christ our salvation, you gave yourself up to death out of love for us,
- help us to show your love to one another.
Christ our Savior, on the cross you embraced all time with your outstretched arms,
- unite God's scattered children in your kingdom of salvation.
Closing Prayer:
My Lord,
your son has suffered so much, shed so much blood.
I was born with so many faults
and my nature is so full of weakness,
and yet your son Jesus has died on the cross.
For me.
I know your grace has the power
to cleanse me of my many sins
and to make me more like your Son.
Thank you for your goodness and love for me.
I ask you, Father, to watch over me - always.
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May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
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There is no liturgy on Holy Saturday. We spend the day reflecting upon the powerful reality of Jesus' death. In addition to the Daily Reflection and the Preparing for the Easter Vigil Liturgy pages, we offer a page with each of the readings for the Easter Vigil and a page with each of the prayers that are said after each reading. These pages are inter-linked, so that is it possible to go back and forth, easily, just following the links.
What is important is that we keep this day holy, and let our “sense” of the mystery of death shape our reflection, and our longing to celebrate the Easter gift of Jesus alive, for us and with us.
If we are able to celebrate the Easter Vigil, we can renew our Baptismal Promises in a way the completes our Lenten journey to the font. We offer a renewal of our Baptismal promises here, which we might do, in these or similar words, which any of us might make as we keep a vigil of readings and prayer Saturday night, or early Easter Sunday Morning.
“On Holy Saturday, the Church waits at the Lord's tomb in prayer and fasting, meditating on his Passion and Death and on his Descent into Hell, and awaiting his Resurrection.
The Church abstains from the Sacrifice of the Mass with the sacred table left bare, until after the solemn Vigil, that is, the anticipation by night of the Resurrection, when the time comes for paschal joys, the abundance of which overflows to occupy 50 days.
Holy Communion may only be given on this day as Viaticum.
From New Roman Missal, Third Edition..
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Data Source : Creighton University's Online Ministries
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