Carmel of the Holy Family

The Triduum Sacrum

Celebrant: Rev. Frank Klamet

The three Holy Days are the "culmination of the entire liturgical year." We as a worshipping community enter into the holiest of times - into the deepest mystery of our faith.

Holy Thursday

Mass of the Lord's Supper

We begin not only the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper but we also enter into the Holy Days of the Triduum. We come to see concretely our "mandatum" to serve as Jesus did. The footwashing is a powerful symbol of our identity as a servant people.

 

 

Washing of the Feet

"A new commandment I give to you, love one another as I have loved you."

Jesus gives us a very personal and intimate example of loving service and surrender. This action say as words never could, "Here is what love given and received looks like!"

   

Good Friday

Celebration of the Lord's Passion

On this day we enter into an ancient and simple rite. We gather silently as we remember the gift God gave all humanity in the sacrifice of Jesus on the wood of the cross. We receive his body in the simple Communion Rite with the breat consecrated at the Holy Thursday Eucharist. This day, we put on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the wood of the cross,

on which hung

the Savior of the World.

Come, let us worship

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

Were you there when the sun refused to shine?

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

Were you there when they rolled the stone away?

Easter Vigil

"Rejoice, Heavely Powers! Sing Choirs of Angels ...." is the brave call of the Easter Proclamation on this night. This is the night we celebrate the culmination of our Lenten waiting. Light splashes forth into the darkness, Christ has triumphed over death.

Service of Light

Blessing of the Fire and the Paschal Candle

Blessing of the Water

Renewal of Baptismal Promises

Easter Sunday

Celebrant: Rev. Don Cozzens
 
 
     
 
 


Presented here is an Easter Message from Fr. Jim Sheil, a Cleveland Diocesan Priest stationed in Germany.

Christ is Risen!
Today's Gospel (John 21/1-9) proclaims this in a simple story with many meanings, which, taken together, make up one whole: God's creative and redemptive love, become a Person in Christ, offers each one of us the power to grow fully into what we truly are - unique images of the gentle, compassionate God.

Out of death comes life. We must die that we might live. In his words and his living Jesus makes this clear to us. Having gone through the pain, suffering, and loneliness of his Passion and Death, Christ is now risen to fullness of life in every sense of the term. He shows us what we must find out for ourselves. that, regardless of how much evil we see around us, how bleak and devastating the circumstances in which we live, there is at the center of creation and life a divinity which no evil can overpower. The life, death, and resurrection of Christ shows us that this evil is, in the last analysis, powerless, and its ultimate focus, death in its many forms, is merely a stingless facade.

Christ's resurrection also speaks to us of our own journey into wholeness. He invites us to share with him a relationship, much like he shared with his friends of the time, which, as we spend time with him, wordlessly leads us into growth. This growth involves suffering for us as we die to old habits and ways of thinking. As we carry our own cross and suffer our own pains, we also become aware of a new dimension to reality, one that is centered in love and compassion. We are drawn to our own Center, of which Christ is the Word made flesh. Gradually we begin to live from this Center, to see the events of our days as also coming from it. We become aware of a Goodness in the midst of evil which offers hope when all around us is dark with fear and suffering. Instead of looking in the tomb for the Christ we have known in the past, we now look around us for the Christ who is risen and who moves all around us.

The Resurrection is now as well as later, in this life as well as after it. The Resurrection leads us into the
fullness of God who reveals himself in the Risen Christ throughout our lives and the lives of all around us.
On one level, beyond doctrine and dogma, the Resurrection of Christ is for us a deeply personal experience
as we make our own journey into wholeness.

Our beliefs and practices are guideposts along the way.

The experiences of our journey help us to fill them in, to give them meaning in our own lives, to take them out of our head and put them into our heart.

On our journey we learn the meaning of hope a more than a wish that things will turn out for the good, usually a good that fits our idea of how things should be. We come to know hope as a faith-filled openness to the possibility of God in all things, in all relationships. Thus hope becomes for us a way of living, open to what is, firming believing that all creation is the reflection of God. Christ is Risen, and this makes all the difference.

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