Lent: March 27th

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MASS READINGS

March 27, 2018 (Readings on USCCB website)

COLLECT PRAYER

Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord's Passion that we may merit to receive your pardon. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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Activities (11)

• A Jonas (Jonah) Project
• Holy Week in the Catholic Tradition
• Housecleaning for Holy Week I
• Housecleaning for Holy Week II
• Jonas and Holy Week
• Lent Hymn: Open, O Hard and Sinful Heart!
• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week in the Home
• Music for Lent and Easter: St. Matthew Passion by Bach
• Spring Cleaning
• Tenebrae--Candelabrum for Stations of the Cross
• The Passover Meal: 1. Introduction

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Prayers (6)

• Prayer for Tuesday of Holy Week
• Prayer Before a Crucifix
• Prayer for Palm Sunday and Holy Week
• Way of the Cross
• To Keep A True Lent
• Family Evening Prayer for Holy Week

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Library (14)

• A Holy Week Reflection from Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP | Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
• Catechesis of Fasting | Adam DeVille
• Easter Triduum | Pope Benedict XVI
• Easter Triduum | Pope Benedict XVI
• Easter Triduum | Pope Benedict XVI
• Easter Triduum Is the Center of Christian Faith | Pope Francis
• Following Holy Week, Holding Our Course | Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J.
• From Palm Branches to the Wood of the Cross | Fr. Roger J. Landry
• How to Make the Church Year a Living Reality | Very Reverend Martin B. Hellriegel
• Lent and the Family | Mary Reed Newland
• Mediator Dei (On The Sacred Liturgy) | Pope Pius XII
• The Exsultet | Dom Jerome Gassner O.S.B.
• The Paschal Mystery Is Present Reality | Pope Benedict XVI
• The Paschal Triduum Is a Story of Love that Knows No Bounds | Pope Francis

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Blog & Podcasts (11)

• A Lenten reading list
• Before Holy Week Passes Us By: The Lesson of Lent
• Celebrating Holy Week in the Home
• Celebrating in the Home for the Holy Triduum
• Holy Week in the Home
• Holy Week in the Home During Quarantine
• Holy Week Preparation
• Holy Week viewing: Pasolini's Gospel According to St. Matthew
• Passiontide and Veiling of Images
• Salvaging Lent by Keeping the *Holy* in Holy Week
• Two Business Meditations for Holy Week

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"False witnesses have stood up against me, and my enemies threaten violence; Lord, do not surrender me into their power!" Our Lord calls upon His heavenly Father to shield Him against His enemies. In God's providence, however, the Cross of Christ was destined to be a sign of glory and not an emblem of shame: from that Cross came victory over Satan, from it came life, resurrection and salvation: "It behooves us to glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection, by whom we are saved and delivered."

On the Cross Our Lord expiated our avarice by His extreme poverty, our sensuality by His most bitter sufferings, our pride by His profound humiliations, our disobedience by His most perfect submission to the Will of God. Embracing us with His extended arms He draws us into the path which He has trod and which alone leads to life eternal. — Cathedral Daily Missal

The feast of St. Stanislaus, which is ordinarily celebrated today, is superseded by the Holy Week liturgy.

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Meditation
Today, again, our Savior sets out in the morning for Jerusalem. His intention is to repair to the temple, and continue His yesterday's teachings. It is evident that His mission on earth is fast drawing to its close. He says to His disciples: "You know that after two days shall be the Pasch, and the Son of Man shall be delivered up to be crucified."

On the road from Bethania to Jerusalem, the disciples are surprised at seeing the fig-tree, which their divine Master had yesterday cursed, now dead. Addressing himself to Jesus, Peter says: "Rabbi, behold, the fig-tree, which Thou didst curse, is withered away." In order to teach us that the whole of material nature is subservient to the will of God, Jesus replies: "Have the faith of God. Amen I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain: Be thou removed and cast into the sea! and shall not stagger in his heart, but believe that whatsoever he saith shall be done, it shall be done unto him."

Having entered the city, Jesus directs His steps towards the temple. No sooner has He entered, than the chief priests, the scribes, and the ancients of the people, accost Him with these words: "By what authority dost Thou do these things and who has given Thee this authority, that Thou shouldst do these things?" We shall find our Lord's answer given in the Gospel. Our object is to mention the leading events of the last days of our Redeemer on earth; the holy volume will supply the details.

As on the two preceding days, Jesus leaves the city towards evening: He passes over Mount Olivet, and returns to Bethania, where He finds His blessed Mother and His devoted friends.

—The Liturgical Year, Abbot Gueranger O.S.B.