Holy Week

[Elliott]

Thy Kingdom Come!

Dear Brothers in Christ,

I just wanted to send out a note with a few reminders of some customs Movement

members generally observe during Holy Week.  

• Participate in as many of the Holy Week liturgies as you can, so as to accompany the Lord through his Passion.
• To the extent possible, try to enter into the "great silence" of the Sacred Triduum by refraining from using tv, radio & various other screens and gadgets from Holy Thursday in to Easter. (Obviously, adapt this to your actual situation).
• It's our custom to read the accounts of the Passion as our Gospel Reading during the Triduum. The traditional order is: Wed: Matthew; Holy Thurs: Mark; Good Friday: John; Holy Saturday: Luke.
• Not customary, but wonderful, is the Holy Father's summation last week of his two-year catechesis on the saints. I think you'll find much beauty, simplicity and encouragement in his simple explanation of how to be holy --and how we're all called to it.  I think you may find this very much a  synthesis of our own spirituality. It's about striving to know Christ, so as to think, feel and behave more like Him.  
• I also commend to you  his Palm Sunday homily from this past weekend.  

Also, a brief announcement:

Saturday Evening, April 30th, we will celebrate the beatification of John Paul the Great with an anticipated (Sunday) Mass at 7:00 pm at OLB, followed by a brief dedication of some relics and hors d'oeuvres. No charge, but there will be a free will offering collected to defray the cost of food and wine. Anyone is welcome: husbands, dates, kids, friends...

Finally, a few prayer requests. ( I would encourage you to let me know if there are ever prayer requests that you have for the Men's Section).

• Please pray for April and Tom Hoopes (formerly of the Washington Section, now living in KS), who is recovering from a D&C after a molar pregnancy.
• Please pray for the Holy Father.  Last Saturday, the 16th,  was his 84th birthday, and this will be a grueling week for him, no matter how beautiful. He also asks that we pray especially for Christians in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East during this time. 
• And, of course, let's pray for each other to be able to enter deeply into the Holy rites we've begun today and be renewed with the grace of the Easter season.  

in Christ,

Elliott 

Elliott Dorham

c: 410.598.8924

elliott...@gmail.com