Have you been waiting patiently? It’s almost here! We are now in Holy Week, which culminates in the Easter Triduum – three days of awe-filling immersion into the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord. Triduum is the goal, the summit, the extraordinary endpoint of our journey through forty days in the Lenten desert. It is unlike any other moment in the Church’s liturgical calendar – it’s almost like stepping over a threshold, out of chronological time and into kairos time, into a sacred space unique in the depth of engagement it offers, and in the beauty of liturgy that graces it. Truly nothing is like the Triduum liturgy! If you have never participated before, now is the time: you will never forget this incredible experience of time-out-of-time.
Join us first on Holy Thursday evening for the Feast of the Lord’s Supper and recall Jesus kneeling humbly before his disciples to wash their feet, then blessing, breaking, and sharing bread – the first Eucharist – with his disciples… Process afterwards with us to O'Brien Hall for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament…
Follow in Jesus’ footsteps on the Way of the Cross Friday afternoon, and venerate the Wood of the Cross in remembrance of his death at the most extraordinary Communion service of the liturgical year…
Witness the Light of Christ as it slowly fills Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Holy Saturday evening, and hear the story of salvation history, from Genesis to Romans… punctuated with a joyful Gloria that tells us that Resurrection is at hand…
And then, at last, on Easter Sunday, join in the joyful proclamation of Jesus Risen and know in the depth of your being God’s faithful and abiding love…. Alleluia!
Come, make your way to the magnificence of Triduum!
Image source: Jeffrey Smith, Sovereign (detail), prints available at: https://www.ascendingstorm.com/
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