Celebrate Easter At St. Benedict’s
“Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast.”
The Great Easter Vigil
Saturday, March 30th at 10:00 pm
Easter Morning
Sunday, March 31st at 10:00 am
Followed by an Easter Egg Hunt!
Holy Week Services
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Palm Sunday
March 24th
10:00 am Procession of Palms & Holy Communion with Choir.
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Maundy Thursday
March 28th
7:00 pm Service of Holy Communion followed by a vigil until midnight.
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Good Friday
March 29th
12:00 pm Litany, Veneration of the Cross, Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.
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Holy Saturday
March 30th
10:00 am Liturgy of the Word and Prayer.
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The Great Easter Vigil
March 30th
10:00 pm Service of Light, Baptism, & Holy Communion.
Holy Week Explained.
The Paschal Triduum
The Easter Triduum holds a special place in the liturgical year because it marks the culmination of the yearly celebration in proclaiming the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Latin word triduum refers to a period of three days and has long been used to describe various three-day observances that prepare us for a feast day through liturgy, prayer, and fasting. But it is most often used to describe the three days prior to the great feast of Easter: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil. The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday.
Just as Sunday is the high point of the week, Easter is the high point of the Christian year. The meaning of the great feast is revealed and anticipated throughout the Triduum, which brings the people of God into contact — through liturgy, symbol, and sacrament — with the central events of the life of Christ: the Last Supper, His trial and crucifixion, His time in the tomb, and His Resurrection from the dead. In this way, the mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ crushed death, permeates with its powerful energy our old time, until all is subjected to him” . During these three days of contemplation and anticipation, the liturgies emphasize the sacrificial death of Christ on the Cross and the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, by which the faithful enter into the life-giving Passion of Christ and grow in hope of eternal life in Him.
Download the Holy Week Guide which provides liturgical and theological insight into the services of this most Holy Week.