Faith Education

Holy Week Prayer Service

On Wednesday next week (27th March) we will have our Holy Week Prayer Service, starting sharp at 2.25pm until 3.10pm. All are invited to join us. We will reflect on Holy Week up until Good Friday. We will then celebrate Easter when we come back to school in Term 2. 

Holy Thursday

"So, during supper, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, [Jesus] rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.” (John 13:2b-5)

The Sacred Paschal Triduum 

These ‘three days’ are the backbone of the Catholic Faith, the most sacred of the year, during which the Church celebrates the Passion, dying and rising of Christ, the source of life and hope. 

Each day tells a different part of the story of Jesus’ saving action, and the Church celebrates one liturgy each day, but the three days form part of a single extended liturgy. (Note that there is no dismissal on Maundy Thursday, and no formal beginning or end to the Good Friday liturgy.) 

Christ accomplished his work of human redemption and the perfect glorification of God principally through his Paschal mystery – by dying he destroyed our death, by rising restored our life. 

So, the sacred Paschal Triduum of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord is the high point of the entire liturgical year.

 (excerpt from article on www.abdiocese.org.uk )

Kinds Regards, 

Ru Lameijn (rlameijn@tcs.catholic.edu.au)

Deputy Principal - Religious Education Leader