ST MICHAEL’S Easter Monday 5 April Catholic Church Easter Triduum 7.00am-9.00am Adoration Under the Pastoral Care of the 9.00am Mass Michaelite Fathers Holy Thursday 1 April 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena 10 Croydon Road, Hurstville NSW 2220 9.15am Morning Prayers in the Church Easter Tuesday 6 April Phone: 02 9587 2166 Email: [email protected] 10.00am Chrism Mass (St Mary’s Cathedral) 6.45am Mass Sacrament of Reconciliation: 7.00pm Evening Mass of the Lord’s 6.00pm Marian Cenacle with Adoration Supper & Washing of the Feet Saturdays: 9.30am and 4.15pm 7.00pm St Michael Devotion with Adoration 8.30pm Vigil commences at the Altar of Repose 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena with Benediction 3rd and 4th Sundays of Lent: 9.00am-10 am, in the Old Church (no assigned group) 11.00am-12.00pm, 5.30pm-7.30pm Easter Wednesday 7 April 9.00pm Croatian Community Second Rite of Reconciliation 29 March 7.00pm 6.45am Mass 9.30pm Tongan & Islander Communities at St Patrick’s Kogarah 7.15am-9.15am Adoration 10.00pm Chinese & Spanish Communities 2021 Holy Week & Octave of Easter 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena 10.30pm Filipino Community & Legion of Mary Easter Thursday 8 April Palm Sunday 28 March 7.15am-9.15am Adoration 5.00pm Anticipated Mass (27 March) Good Friday 2 April 9.15am Communion Service 6.30pm Anticipated Mass (27 March, Spanish) 10.00am Stations of the Cross (Bethany Hall) 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena 8.00am Easter Friday 9 April 10.00am 3.00pm Celebration of the Passion of the Lord 12.00pm (Cantonese) 9.15am Mass 6.00pm 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena 9.45am-11.45am Adoration Monday 29 March 7.30pm Divine Mercy Novena 8.00pm-10.00pm Adoration 9.15 am Mass Black Saturday 3 April 9.45am Adoration 9.00am Morning Prayers with Holy Rosary Easter Saturday 10 April 9.00am Mass Tuesday 30 March 3.00pm Divine Mercy Novena 9.30am Perpetual Help Novena and Adoration 9.15am Mass 10.30am-11.30am Adoration 9.45am Adoration Easter Sunday 4 April 6.00pm Marian Cenacle with Adoration 3.00pm Divine Mercy Novena 7.00pm St Michael Devotion with Benediction 6.00pm Easter Vigil Mass Divine Mercy Sunday 11 April (Saturday, 3 April) 8.00pm RCIA Rehearsal (in the Church; no 6.00pm Anticipated Mass (10 April) Adoration) 8.00am Easter Sunday Mass 8.00am Mass 10.00am Easter Sunday Mass Wednesday 31 March 10.00am Mass 3.00pm Divine Mercy Novena 9.15am Mass 3.00pm-6.00 pm Divine Mercy Devotion 9.45am Adoration 6.00pm Easter Sunday Mass 6.00pm Mass The Easter Triduum begins with the Vigil of Holy "Therefore, Easter is not simply one feast among We will soon attend the Last Supper and receive Thursday. It marks the end of the forty days of others, but the "Feast of feasts," the "Solemnity of the gift of the Holy Eucharist, the Body, Blood Soul Lent and the beginning of the three-day solemnities," just as the Eucharist is the "Sacrament and Divinity of Jesus Christ. We will enter into the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus of sacraments" (the Great Sacrament). St. deep meaning of the Holy Priesthood. We will be Christ - Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Athanasius calls Easter "the Great Sunday" and the invited to pour ourselves out like the water in the Vigil/Easter Sunday. The Fathers of the Second Eastern Churches call Holy Week "the Great basins used to wash feet on Holy Thursday. We Vatican Council reminded us of the extraordinary Week." The mystery of the Resurrection, in which will be asked with the disciples in the Gospel significance of the Triduum: "Christ redeemed us Christ crushed death, permeates with its powerful accounts we will hear proclaimed to watch with all and gave perfect glory to God principally energy our old time, until all is subjected to him." the Lord. We will be invited to enter with Him into through his paschal mystery: dying he destroyed (CCC #1168, 1169) his anguish by imitating His Holy surrender in his our death and rising he restored our life. Sacred Humanity in the Garden of Gethsemane. The Lord gives us time as a gift and intends it to Therefore, the Easter Triduum of the passion and become a field of choice and a path to holiness in Through the stark and solemn Liturgy of the resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the this life and the window into life eternal. Through Friday we call "Good", we will stand at the Altar of entire liturgical year." (General Norms for the time the Lord offers us the privilege of discovering the Cross where heaven is re-joined to earth and Liturgical Year and the Calendar, # 18) His plan for our own life pilgrimage. Through time earth to heaven, along with the Mother of the Lord. These last Forty Days were a time of preparation He invites us to participate in His ongoing We will enter into the moment that forever for these great Three days, which is what Triduum redemptive plan, through His Son Jesus Christ changed - and still changes - all human History, means. These three days lead us to an empty tomb who has been raised, by living in the full the great self-gift of the Son of God who did for us and an Octave, eight days, of celebrating the communion of His Church which is the seed of the what we could never do for ourselves by in the Resurrection. They also introduce an entire kingdom. That redemptive plan will find its final words of the ancient Exultet, "trampling on death liturgical season, the Easter Season, which lasts for fulfillment in the recreation of the entire cosmos in by death". We will wait at the tomb and witness Fifty days until Pentecost. Christ. Time is the road along which this loving the Glory of the Resurrection and the beginning of plan of redemption and re-creation proceeds. the New Creation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs us: "Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source At the very epicentre of our Liturgical Calendar is Let us enter fully into the Sacred Triduum of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the the great Three days we celebrate, Holy Thursday, Liturgies. The Great Three Days of Holy Thursday, whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, Good Friday and the Resurrection of the Lord, the Good Friday and Easter Invite Us into Heart of the on either side of this source, the year is Sacred Triduum. Good Liturgy is not simply a re- Mystery of Faith. Let it Begin! transfigured by the liturgy. It really is a "year of the enactment of something that happened over 2000 Lord's favour." The economy of salvation is at years ago but an actual participation in the events By: Deacon Keith Fournier 28/3/2018 Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org) work within the framework of time, but since its themselves through living faith. These events are fulfillment in the Passover of Jesus and the outside of time and made present in our Liturgical outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the culmination of celebrations and in our reception of the history is anticipated "as a foretaste," and the Sacraments. Just as every Mass/Divine Liturgy is kingdom of God enters into our time. an invitation to enter into the sacrifice of Calvary which occurred once and for all. .