This week we celebrate the Confirmation of more than forty of our young parishioners. As we near the end of the Easter season, we complete it as we began at the Easter Vigil, with our parish reveling in the joy of sacramental initiation. I’d like to share with you today some of what I … Continue reading 20/5/07 – The Easter Season: A Time for Initiation
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The Easter Vigil is considered to be the Church’s night of nights. It is the night when we celebrate Jesus’ Passover. Not the angel of death’s passing over the homes of the Israelites in the early covenant, but Jesus’ passing over from death to new life in the new and everlasting covenant. It certainly was … Continue reading 6/5/07 – Remembering the Easter Vigil
This is the wood of the cross on which hung the Saviour of the world. Come, let us worship. These words, which Fr. Paul and the assembly chanted as the cross was brought into the church, are central to our celebration of Good Friday. The cross is our focus on Good Friday. It is … Continue reading 29/4/07 – Remembering Good Friday
Our Easter Triduum this year began as always with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. It is the final time the Eucharist is celebrated before the Easter Vigil. The gospel focuses us on the act of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. This year, as is the tradition, Fr. Bernard, Prior of our … Continue reading 22/4/07 – Recalling Holy Thursday
Our celebration of the Easter Triduum has now ended, but the Easter Season is certainly not over! The Easter Season is fifty days in length. After spending forty days preparing for Easter, we have seven weeks to rejoice in the great miracle of the resurrection. We have until Pentecost to celebrate how we are blessed … Continue reading 15/4/07 – Rite of Sprinkling Holy Water during Easter
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