Last week I wrote about the Sacred Triduum we will celebrate during Holy Week: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. The point I made can be summarized in this way: These three days form a single feast during which we participate in the mystery of Christ’s death and resurrection. Stated negatively, these three days are not three separate feasts. Nor are they a mere remembrance of the past. They form a single feast, the most important of the Church’s year, in which we enter into the Paschal Mystery. In this column I discuss each of these days. Click the title to read more.
In a few weeks we will enter the most sacred week of the Church’s liturgical year: Holy Week. At the climax of this week, we will celebrate the Sacred Triduum, three days that form a single celebration: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. Click the title to read more.
It has been two, five, ten, twenty years since your last confession. You would like to go to confession, but you are not sure what to do. You have grown out of the habit of receiving the sacrament, and you are not sure what to say, what to confess. It is not as complicated as it seems. All you need to do is the following. Click the title to read more.