CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Tuesday of Holy Week 3.27.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“Reclining at table with His disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.’ …”
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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 MASS VIDEO: Monday of Holy Week 3.26.18 – Catholic TV (Archdiocese of Boston)
Catholic TV Mass for Monday of Holy Week, March 27, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Monday of Holy Week 3.26.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served,
while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil
made from genuine aromatic nard
and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair …”
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Monday of Holy Week 3.26.18 – Loretto Abbey (Archdiocese of Toronto)
Catholic TV Mass for Monday of Holy Week, March 26, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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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 MASS VIDEO: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 3.25.18 – Heart of the Nation (Wisconsin)
Catholic TV Mass for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 25, 2018, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 3.25.18 – Archdiocese of Toronto
Catholic TV Mass for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 25, 2018, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 3.25.18 – Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Catholic TV Mass for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 25, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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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.