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
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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
For the many people who came to Mass on Ash Wednesday, today continues the liturgical dimension of our Lenten journey. The tone of this season is markedly different to that of other seasons during the year. During Lent, music should be used more simply and perhaps even less often. In particular, the Church insists … Continue reading 25/2/07 – Lenten Music
"Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful, through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices." General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, article … Continue reading 18/2/07 – Beginning Lent
“What Jesus himself did, he also commands us to do. He often said, ‘Pray’, ‘Ask’, ‘Seek’,‘in my name’. He gave us the Lord’s Prayer to teach us how to pray. He instructed us on the necessity of prayer,and told us to be humble, watchful, persevering and confident in the goodness of the Father, pure in … Continue reading 11/2/07 – Lenten Evening Prayer
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