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The Easter Vigil The Easter Triduum THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD THE CULMINATION OF THE ENTIRE LITURGICAL YEAR At the Easter Vigil liturgy, we will The third part of the Paschal Vigil once again recount the story of our is the Liturgy of Baptism. How truly Holy Week Schedule It is important to remind salvation, baptize our Elect, and with those blessed are we who will welcome new ourselves that Lent exists only as of us already baptized will renew their members into our midst tonight. The water Palm Sunday Vigil, a preparation for something baptismal promises. Then comes is blessed, becoming the waters of new (Saturday) March 27TH Confirmation of the newly baptized and birth. We call on the intercession of all 5:30 PM: Mass bigger. That something bigger is the Easter Triduum. they will receive Eucharist for the first God's holy ones in the litany of saints. TH time. * Due to the Coronavirus we have no Those to be baptized - and all of us after Palm Sunday, March 28 them - publicly renounce Satan and profess 8:30 AM: Mass The three days of the Paschal initiations this year. 11AM: Streaming Mass The Easter Vigil is the high point the faith. And then, the moment of new Triduum are one celebration, TH of the celebration of the Triduum. The birth: those to be baptized are immersed in Monday, March 29 830AM: focusing on three aspects of the This is the night service begins at Sunset around the great the waters of life. They are presented with Pray the Rosary same mystery: Christ's passage when once you led our Easter fire by fire pit (in case of inclement candle lit from the paschal light, and the TH through death into eternal life. forebears, Israel's weather, it will begin in the outer breeze clothing with the white garment Tuesday, March 30 830AM: children, way). It is the night of the Passover of the symbolizing new life. What immense joy is Pray the Rosary This is the mystery in which we ST share through our Baptism. This from slavery in Egypt Lord, His passage from the darkness of ours as we celebrate these "new births"! Wednesday, March 31 and made them pass death into the radiant glory of eternal life. Finally, all the assembly is blessed with the is the mystery into which we are 830AM: Pray the Rosary dry-shod through the The new fire is blessed and the Paschal new water, the new cleansing prophesied 9 AM: Mass called not only at the moment of Candle is prepared. Christ is the Alpha and by Ezekiel now come to fulfillment. Red Sea. ST our physical death, but the Omega, the beginning and the end, all The fourth part of the Paschal Vigil Holy Thursday, April 1 time belongs to Him, including this year is the celebration of the Eucharist. Our 830AM: Pray the Rosary throughout our life: allowing This is the night 9 AM: Morning Prayer ourselves to be handed over by that with a pillar of fire that is our own. As the candle is carried newest members, with the rest of the 7 PM: Streaming The Lord’s Supper through the darkened church, its light assembly then come together around the the events and circumstances of banished the darkness TH spreads throughout the assembly and we table of the Lord to be nourished with the Good Friday, “Before the feast of sin. April 2 life that seem so nonsensical and proclaim the Light of Christ. The Exsultet, life that is God's own. For the newly 830AM: Pray the Rosary even unjust; being willing to of Passover, Jesus the great Easter hymn of joy, is sung. The initiated they will receive Communion for 9AM: Morning Prayer This is the night 12:00PM: Stations of the Cross pass through the darkness of the knew that his light of Christ, the Morning Star, shines the first time. 3PM: Streaming The Lord’s Passion that even now brightly in our midst. Ideally, all who can should uncertainties and the unknowns; hour had come to throughout the world, In the readings of the Liturgy of participate in the Paschal Vigil, given its Holy Saturday, April 3RD being raised in the midst of all sets Christian believers the Word, we hear the story of salvation: significance in the liturgical year as a 9AM: Morning Prayer into a new life by the power of pass from this apart from worldly creation, the covenant with Abraham, the whole and its importance for our parish and 8:30PM: Streaming Easter Vigil God at work in us. world to the vices Exodus, and four prophetic readings set in community life. TH Father. and from the gloom of the time of the Babylonian Exile. God Mass on Easter Sunday has its Easter Sunday, April 4 What the Triduum promises to renew and re-create His sinful own readings and propers. The 8:30AM Easter Sunday Mass He loved his own sin, 11AM: Streaming Easter Sunday commemorates, that which leading them to grace people in covenant love. The readings are renewal of baptismal promises and the makes it the “culmination of the in the world and and joining them to his integral in the telling of the story and each blessing with the new Easter water takes “Christ redeemed us all and gave entire liturgical year,” is the he loved them to holy ones. has its own Responsorial Psalm and place at these Masses as well. prayer. After the Old Testament readings, May our participation in perfect glory to God principally passion, death, and resurrection the end.” we joyfully sing God's praise in the Gloria. this Paschal Triduum strengthen us for through his paschal mystery: of Jesus Christ. Though This is the night Pope Benedict XVI The reading from the letter to the Romans all the crosses – which will be part of our dying he destroyed our death and rising he restored our life. chronologically three days, it is when Christ broke the speaks of our own participation lives in the coming year. In the face prison-bars of death Therefore the Easter Triduum of one liturgy. (immersion) in Christ's Death and of the darkness, the unknown, the passion and resurrection of and rose victorious Resurrection through Baptism. In our and the inexplicable, may we know from the underworld. Christ is the culmination of the Psalm response we hear once again the the power of God at work in and through entire liturgical year.” Join us for the joyful Alleluia which has been silenced for our weakness, bringing us through it (General Norms for the Liturgical Year celebration of Excerpt from the “Exultet”, the all of Lent. Finally, we hear the Gospel to new and transformed life in the Easter proclamation and the Calendar, # 18) proclamation of the first Easter morning.) victory He has won. The Triduum! St. Nicholas + Gig Harbor, WA + www.stnicholascc.org St. Nicholas + Gig Harbor, WA + www.stnicholascc.org Holy Thursday Good Friday THE MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S PASSION The Triduum begins with the Evening washing of feet after the homily. In This liturgy includes the solemn King of the Jews whose Death Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy our service to one another, we give veneration of the Cross and distribution represents His full accomplishment of Thursday. The Entrance Antiphon of our life on behalf of one another, in of Holy Communion, since this is the the Father's work and the outpouring of the Mass calls our attention to what it memory of Jesus. In sharing the bread only day of the church year that Mass the Spirit. From the wound in His side, is all about: the Cross of Christ, our of His life that is broken for us, in is not celebrated. All depart in silence life-giving water bursts forth. salvation, our freedom, our life (see drinking of the cup of His blood that and those who wish may stay and pray Galatians 6:14.) According to the is poured out, we are nourished in in the church. The Solemn Intercessions on Good synoptic accounts of the Gospel eternal life; we are united to Him and Friday are inclusive of the entire (Matthew, Mark, and Luke,) Jesus' to one another; we commit ourselves On entering the church on Good human race. We pray for: the Church, Last Supper was a Passover meal to live in a manner that remembers Friday, we notice immediately its the Pope, all ministers in the Church, commemorating Israel's deliverance His presence among us. In so doing, starkness and emptiness. We can feel Catechumens preparing for Baptism, from slavery in Egypt (see Exodus 12 we proclaim His death, and His life of the absence of the Blessed Sacrament. Christian Unity, the Jewish people, all - 15.) self-giving, until He comes in glory. The Good Friday celebration at 3:00 those who do not believe in Christ, The Gospel account of John offers a PM is not a Mass, but a three-part atheists, and those in special need. different chronology. The last days of After the reception of Holy ceremony consisting of the Liturgy of “This is my body, Jesus's life are during Passover time, Communion at Mass, the Blessed the Word, the Adoration of the Cross, In the second part of the service, we but the last supper is not a Passover Sacrament is removed from the and Holy Communion. The readings venerate the cross of Christ, coming which will be meal.