Holy Week 2017

The Triduum 2017

DATE		Chapel
The Easter Triduum The Easter Triduum is the holiest and most important liturgical celebrations in the Catholic Church and is the culmination of the entire liturgical year. We are called and challenged to live the Paschal Mystery (Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection) daily, so we gather as a community to celebrate the Triduum: the Passover, Passion, Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. By dying and rising, God’s Son broke the bonds of death and was restored to life; as we unite our lives to Christ we too will be led into the fullness of God’s eternal light! We experience the three days of the Easter Triduum as one continuous celebration, with three movements: Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil/Easter Sunday. The Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday evening marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the Easter Triduum (sunset to sunset, Thursday through Sunday). As we prepare the rites of the Triduum liturgy, we are afforded many opportunities to emphasize and maintain the unity of this one celebration. We accomplish this ritually by remembering that each of the days, while having their own emphasis, commemorate the entire mystery of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. We arrive at the joy of the resurrection only through suffering and death. Easter without the cross has little meaning.

April 9^th	Palm Sunday 12 Noon English Mass [Blessings of the Palms]	Main Chapel
April 13^th	Holy Thursday 7:00 PM English Liturgy	St. Mary’s Chapel
April 14^th	Good Friday [Day of Fasting and Abstinence] 5:00 PM Stations of the Cross 7:00 PM Good Friday Service	St. Mary’s Chapel
April 15^th	Holy Saturday 7:00 PM Easter Vigil Mass (Japanese)	St. Mary’s Chapel
April 16^th	Easter Sunday 12 Noon English Mass	Main Chapel