CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Passiontide Chronology: Wednesday of Holy Week”- Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope
“… the Lord is fulfilling Passover. The priests and elders can plan all they want, but God is in control. …”
Category: Holy Week
CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “[‘The Gospel … takes us to Bethany, where … Lazarus, Martha and Mary were giving a supper for the Teacher’] Homily Of His Holiness Benedict XVI: Eucharistic Celebration On the Fifth Anniversary of the Death of the Servant Of God John Paul II” – VaticanVa 3.29.10
“The Gospel … takes us to Bethany, where … Lazarus, Martha and Mary were giving a supper for the Teacher …. This banquet in the house of Jesus’ three friends was marked by presentiments of his imminent death: the six days before Easter, the suggestion of Judas, the traitor, Jesus’ answer that calls to mind one of the devout burial rites, anticipated by Mary, the hint that they would not always have Him with them and the attempt to put Lazarus to death that mirrors the desire to kill Jesus. … Mary of Bethany ‘took 300 grams [a pound] of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the Feet of Jesus and wiped His Feet with her hair” … [an] expression of great faith and love for the Lord … Mary offers Jesus the most precious thing she has and with a gesture of deep devotion. Love does not calculate, does not measure, does not worry about expense, does not set up barriers but can give joyfully; it seeks only the good of the other, surmounts meanness, pettiness, resentment and the narrow-mindedness that human beings sometimes harbour in their hearts. Mary stood at the feet of Jesus in a humble attitude of service, the same attitude that the Teacher himself was to assume at the Last Supper, when ‘… He … began to wash the disciples’ feet’ …”
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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Saint Andrew of Crete: “[‘Hosanna! Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord, the King of Israel!’]; Sermon for Palm Sunday; PG 97, 1002” – DailyGospel.org
“Have courage, daughter of Zion, do not be afraid. ‘Behold, your king comes to you, humble and mounted on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden’ (Zec 9:9). He is coming who is everywhere present and pervades all things; he is coming to achieve in you his work of universal salvation. He is coming ‘who came to call to repentance not the righteous but sinners’ (Lk 5:32), coming to recall those who have strayed into sin. Do not be afraid, then: ‘God is in the midst of you, and you shall not be shaken’ (Ps 46[45]:6) Receive him with open, outstretched hands, for it was on his own hands that he sketched you. Receive him who laid your foundations on the palms of his hands. Receive him, for he took upon himself all that belongs to us except sin, to consume what is ours in what is his… Rejoice exceedingly, daughter of Jerusalem, sing and leap for joy… ‘Be enlightened, for the light has come to you and the glory of the Lord has risen over you’ (Is 60:1). …”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “See What the End Shall Be – Palm Sunday”- Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope
“… As we read the Passion we must understand that this is not merely an account of the behavior of people long gone, this is a portrait of you and me; we do these things. …”
CATHOLIC MUSIC VIDEO: “O Sacred Head Surrounded”
O Sacred Head, surrounded
by crown of piercing thorn!
O Bleeding Head, so wounded,
reviled and put to scorn!
Our sins have marred the glory
of Thy Most Holy Face,
yet Angel Hosts adore thee
and tremble as they gaze
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I see thy strength and vigor
all fading in the strife,
and death with cruel rigor,
bereaving thee of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn thy face on me.
In this thy bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
with thy most sweet compassion,
unworthy though I be:
beneath thy cross abiding
for ever would I rest,
in thy dear love confiding,
and with thy presence blest.
From a medieval Latin hymn attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux of the 12th century.
CATHOLIC MUSIC VIDEO: “All Glory Laud and Honor”
“All Glory Laud and Honor,” by Saint Theodulph ca. 9th century, translated by John Mason Neale, 1851, sung at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.
All glory, laud, and honor
to you, Redeemer, King,
to whom the lips of children
made sweet hosannas ring.
You are the King of Israel
and David’s royal Son,
now in the Lord’s name coming,
the King and Blessed One.
The company of angels
is praising you on high;
and we with all creation
in chorus make reply.
The people of the Hebrews
with palms before you went;
our praise and prayer and anthems
before you we present.
The people of the Hebrews
With palms before You went;
Our prayer and praise and anthems
Before You we present.
To You, before Your passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To You, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise.
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Archbishop Chaput: The Triduum and Easter 2017” – Catholic Philly/Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
“… This year and every year, Holy Week is a time to remember that, as the late Cardinal Augustin Mayer once said, ‘nothing great is ever achieved without suffering.’ Discipleship always has a cost. No Christian ever lives the Gospel without eventually encountering the cross. …”
VIDEO: Catholic TV Mass Readings and Homily: Monday of Holy Week 4.10.17 – EWTN (Alabama)
Catholic TV Mass Readings and Homily for Monday of Holy Week, April 10, 2017, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Sermon for Palm Sunday”/”Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord” – Blessed Guerric of Igny (c.1080-1157), Cistercian abbot
“… If we consider today’s procession and the Passion together, we see Jesus sublime and glorious on one hand, and humiliated and suffering on the other. For in the procession he receives royal honors and in the Passion he is mortified as a criminal. … Lord Jesus, whether your face be glorious or humiliated, we always see wisdom shining in it. On your face shines the refulgence of eternal light …. O Lord, may your light, the light of your face (Ps 4:7), always shine upon us, in sorrow as in happiness… You are joy and salvation for all, both when you ride on a donkey and when you hang from a cross.”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Homily of Saint John Paul II, Palm Sunday, 28 March 1999”
“… Yes! #Jesus #Christ is Lord! He is the Lord of time and history, the Redeemer and the Saviour of man. Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord! #Hosanna! …”