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On Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum His Holiness Pope John Paul II General Audience April 8, 1998 On Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum His Holiness Pope John Paul II General Audience April 8, 1998 Reflection on the Sacred Triduum 1. In these days of Holy Week, the liturgy very forcefully underscores the opposition between light and darkness, between life and death, but it leaves us in no doubt as to the final outcome: the glory of the risen Christ. Tomorrow the solemn celebration "in Cena Domini" will lead us into the Sacred Triduum, which offers the central events of salvation history for the reflection of all believers. Together we will relive and deeply participate in the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. 2. At tomorrow's Chrism Mass, the morning prelude of Holy Thursday, priests will gather with their own Bishop. During a significant Eucharistic celebration, which usually takes place in diocesan cathedrals, the oils for the sick and for catechumens will be blessed, and chrism will be consecrated. These rites symbolize the fullness of Christ's priesthood and that ecclesial communion which must enliven the Christian people, gathered by the Eucharistic sacrifice and strengthened in unity by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Tomorrow evening we will celebrate with grateful hearts the institution of the Eucharist. At the Last Supper, the Lord, "having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end" (Jn 13:1). Precisely at the moment when Judas was preparing to betray him and night had fallen over his heart, divine mercy triumphed over hatred, life over death: "Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said: 'Take, eat; this is my body'. And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, 'Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins' " (Mt 26:26-28). God's new and eternal Covenant with man is thus written indelibly in the blood of Christ, the meek and mild lamb, freely sacrificed to atone for the sins of the world. At the end of the celebration, the Church will invite us to remain in prolonged adoration of the Eucharist, to meditate on this extraordinary and incomparable mystery of love. 3. Good Friday is marked by the Passion account and by contemplation of the Cross, in which the Father's mercy is fully revealed. The liturgy has us pray in this way: "When we were lost and could not find the way to you, you loved us more than ever: Jesus, your Son, innocent and without sin, gave himself into our hands and was nailed to a cross" (Roman Missal, 1983 ed., Eucharistic Prayer for Masses of Reconciliation, I). So great is the emotion evoked by this mystery, that the Apostle Peter, writing to the faithful of Asia Minor, exclaimed: "You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot" (1 Pt 1:18-19). Therefore, after proclaiming the Passion of the Lord, the Church puts the adoration of the Cross at the centre of the Good Friday liturgy, not as a symbol of death but as a source of authentic life. On this day, charged with spiritual emotion, the Cross of Christ is lifted up upon the world as a banner of hope for all who in faith welcome its mystery into their lives. 4. Meditating on these supernatural realities, we will enter the silence of Holy Saturday, in expectation of Christ's glorious triumph in the Resurrection. At the tomb we will be able to reflect on the tragedy of a humanity that, deprived of its Lord, is inevitably dominated by loneliness and discouragement. Turned in on himself, man feels deprived of every breath of hope in the face of suffering, the failures of life and, especially, death. What should we do? We must wait for the resurrection. At our side, according to an ancient, widespread popular tradition, will be Our Lady, the Sorrowful Virgin and Mother of Christ sacrificed. On Holy Saturday night, however, during the solemn Easter Vigil, "the mother of all vigils", the silence will be broken by joyful song: the Exsultet. Once again the victory of Light over darkness, of Life over death, will be proclaimed and the Church will rejoice in meeting her Lord. Thus we will enter the atmosphere of Easter, the Resurrection, the endless day which the Lord inaugurated by rising from the dead. Dear brothers and sisters, let us open our hearts to God's grace and prepare ourselves to follow Jesus in his Passion and Death, in order to enter with him into the joy of the Resurrection. With these sentiments, I wish everyone a fruitful paschal Triduum, and a holy and happy Easter. Preparing for Holy Thursday Opening Prayer: continually forming in the life of our faith community. All our community's "religious education" comes to a special focus for our youngest members. Let us pray. God our Father, This Holy Thursday liturgy has the Elect in mind, we are gathered here to share in the supper and it is a wonderful night for children. On this night which your only Son left to his Church to reveal we "act out" the meaning of the Eucharist, the meaning his love. of our salvation, and the meaning of discipleship. In He gave it to us when he was about to die our preparing for Holy Thursday, it helps to enter into and commanded us to celebrate it as the new this experience as a member of a community that and eternal sacrifice. desires to "show" to our newest and youngest members, who we are and who we desire to be. We pray that in this eucharist we may find the fullness of love and life. The Word. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your To begin to prepare, let us read the readings of Son, this Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper. Our chewing who lives and reigns with you and the Holy starts here, as does our nourishment. The Exodus Spirit, account of the Passover tradition reminds us of the one God, for ever and ever. Amen. To come to this night prepared to celebrate, we can reflect on all the As we prepare to celebrate this wonderful liturgy reasons we have to be grateful. we begin by entering into a new movement. As this liturgy begins, Lent has ended. Our 40 days of Lent exit, the liberation, of the people in slavery in Egypt, helped us "prepare to celebrate the Paschal Mystery and meal that commemorates it. "This day shall be a with mind and heart renewed." Now we come to three memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall liturgies which help us experience what is offered us in celebrate." During our Lenten journey, we have the new Passover. Each liturgy helps us enter more desired greater freedom, and a deeper liberation from deeply into the mystery and meaning. Holy Thursday the patterns that keep us from being free. We want to evening takes us to the heart of the gift and to our come to the Holy Thursday memorial with those desires mission. alive with hunger and thirst. The Elect and the children. Psalm 116 asks, "How shall I make a return to the We begin with the Catechumens and LORD for all the good he has done for me?" The word, Candidates with whom we have been journeying all "Eucharist" means "thanksgiving." To come to this year. If there are no persons preparing for full night prepared to celebrate, we can reflect on all the communion with us in our parish, or if we have not reasons we have to be grateful. The Spirit of Jesus been aware of them, this is the time to become uses the gift of gratitude to gather us for Eucharist. conscious of and sensitive to the Elect, in our community, our city and around the world. Through Paul tells us the simple and profound words of the rites of Acceptance and Election, our brothers and Jesus, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in sisters have grown to "hunger" for communion with remembrance of me." The gift and the mandate. And us. We have welcomed them, blessed them, anointed Paul says, "For as often as you eat this bread and drink them, and cared for them as our own. For the last the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he three weeks we have prayed for them and supported comes." Our celebration on Holy Thursday will show us them in the temptations that come at the end of a long how to proclaim the meaning of the Lord's gift to us.John's gospel is a puzzle and a revelation. The On this night, we act out the meaning of the account of the Last Supper in this gospel does not include the narrative Paul gives us, as do the accounts Eucharist, the meaning of salvation, and the in Mark, Matthew and Luke. In this account of the Last meaning of discipleship. Supper, Jesus does not take bread and wine, say the journey. prayer of thanksgiving, break the bread and share the cup, with the words, "This is my body; this is my blood; Each Sunday, as we dismissed them after the do this in memory of me." In this narrative of the homily and before the "Prayer of the Faithful," we told them that we "longed for the day" when we could be Visit the Online Ministries site: Praying Lent.
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