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Year FaithfWho wants to learn some Latin? Do you know what the word Triduum means? Tri means three, like tricycor triangle, and duum means days. So, Triduum means three days! And, not just any three days, but thrspecific days Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, leading us into Easter Sunday and the Resurection. All three days together make up the one celebration of the Triduum, but we celebrate something dferent on each day something historical and something spiritual.

Holy ThursdayWe celebrate the Last Supper, a meal that actually occurred. The meal Jesus shared with his Apostles the nigbefore He died for us. This was not just any meal. At the Last Supper, Jesus instituted two things the Euchrist and the Priesthood. At the Holy Thursday Mass we all remember the first time Christ gave us His Body aBlood to receive, and the priests, in a special way, remember their own call to the priesthood, thanking God the past year and asking for blessings for the year to come.

Good FridayWe remember Christs passion and death. These are events that happened, not simply stories. It is importato remember and know that Christ was really whipped for our sins, really carried His cross for you and for mand was truly nailed to a cross and died so that we could receive the Fathers mercy and one day be with H

n glory. Many parishes will have their service a 3:00pm, the time which Jesus died on the cross, which we cthe hour of mercy.

Holy Saturday

We celebrate Christs burial and descent into Hell. Jesus united Himself so fully to our human nature and wn such a complete state of solidarity with all of humanity, that He did not die for humanity as a whole, but feach individual. Although he was without sin, He became sin and experienced all of the effects of sin paabandonment, death and the descent into hell. In this way, He has taken all sin into Himself and redeemeach of us, providing and witnessing to the path of life, the Way to the Father.

24 March 2013

HE HOLY TRIDUUM: THREE DAYS/ONE CELEBRATION

The cup of the New

Covenant , which Jesus

anticipated when he offered

himself at the Last Supper, is af-

terwards accepted by him

from his Fathers hands in his

agony in the Garden of Geth

semani,

making

himself

obedient

unto death.

CCC 612

CHALLENGE

This weeks challenge is to go

celebrate the whole Triduum at

parish, all three days! This may

that you will have to cancel or p

pone a meeting, or leave

work early, or change your sche

in some way.

This is where you see what mat

most to you in life. What are y

willing or unwilling to sacrifice

Christ?

2012-2013

We have reached the eve of the Easter

triduum. The next three days are com-monly known as 'holy' because they allow

us to relive the event central to our Re-demption. They lead us to the nucleus of

Christian faith: the passion, death andresurrection of Jesus Christ. These threedays could be considered one single day.They make up the heart and are the keyto both the liturgical year and the life ofthe Church. At the end of Lent we alsoenter that climate which Christ himself

experienced back then in Jerusalem.

Pope Benedict XVI