Posted on 03/15/2008 11:14:07 PM PDT by Salvation
Many of our local parishes closed their doors after 11PM, alhthough our parish is going to remain open all night with the Knights standing guard until morning.
Our last Good Friday Service starts at 8:30 pm.
Yes, can’t start services until the sun goes down.
We do have Stations before Mass though so by the time the Stations of the Cross procession is over it is dark.
We have a service in English for those who can’t come at night. 12:05 pm
My favorite is to make a crown out of the palms. I hang the crown over the painting I have of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That reminds me I have to get some black cloth to cover the painting and my wall crucifix for Good Friday.
I didn’t think they did the black cloth covering things anymore.
All the statues in our church are covered until Easter Vigil.
He told us he wanted us to focus on The Christ during Lent.
We are having an “In the tomb with Jesus” on Friday evening into Saturday morning. At 9pm Friday the church will be totallly denuded of all signs and symbols and the Tabernacle door will be open and empty of any Eucharist. The church will be open all night until 7 am Saturday but during the night there will be 4 guided prayer, scripture reading, and periods of silence, and guided contemplation of the mystery of the Tomb of Christ. I am going to do this.
We have a seperate chapel where Christ will be placed once the alter is cleared. On Easter Vigil Christ will be returned to the Tabernacle.
Do you have a Cenacle Chapel for adoration and silent prayer?
Actually it is a seperate chapel where Father hears confessions. It is also used as the crying room.
Something that always gets me about this Gospel; what is with the young man who is dressed in a loin cloth who runs off naked after being grabbed.
I’ve heard a couple theories about who this may be.
Got any feedback? It is so odd to place this into the story for no apparent reason. I think tht I have heard that the young man was the Gospel writer, that it was St. John??
Any ideas? Or simply nothing deeper than what it appears to be.
Thanks for the ping; post; thread. Informative. Educational.
I’ve always understood that it was St. John. Mark’s Gospel says “a young man”. The young man present would have been St. John. He went home, got clothes and rejoined Christ.
Another thing that is not mentioned in Mark’s Gospel is that Jesus turned around and looked at Peter after his denials. So Christ and Peter must have been in hearing range of each other.
“I heard it was St. Luke. St. John was a man and at the Crucifixion.”
Actually, I’ve heard both of these put forward. Of course, both are apocryphal.
I think that I remember discussion in “The Lamb’s Supper” by Scott Hahn, of it being St. John, “the apostle whom Jesus loved”. St. John was the youngest of the apostles. I sometimes have seen him projected as an adolescent, or as Mark’s reading states “a young man”.
Anyway, it’s interesting stuff to ponder.
Hey, Twink
Ain’t bumped into since Christmas (I think I still have a response to that looong freepmail). Never did find the name of that place I was looking for in Wildwood. ;0)
I remember some wonderful Palm Sunday and Easter services at St. Ann’s.
Happy Easter!
We had our Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning. The teen youth group hosted it. It was the first egg hunt ever for this parish. Afterwards, they had refreshments (juice and cookies) in our parish hall. Then, a mini service in the Church for the kids.
“that squirrels had been busy opening up the plastic eggs and eating the treats.
They got into at least two dozen of them.”
LOL! We didn’t have the problem but I bet it would be something to see.
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