- 12/31/2018 - 01/01/2019
- All Day
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Ave
Coronado, CA 92118
The Ministry Center will be closed Tuesday, January 1st in observance of the New Year.
The Ministry Center will be closed Tuesday, January 1st in observance of the New Year.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Phone: (619) 435-3167
sacredheart@sacredheartcor.org
The grass never sleeps.
Or the roses.
Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.
Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.
The cricket has such splended fringe on its feet,
and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,
and heaven knows if it ever sleeps.
Jesus said, wait with me. And maybe the stars did, maybe
the wind wound itself into a silver tree, and didn’t move,
maybe
the lake far away, where once he walked as on a
blue pavement,
lay still and waited, wild awake.
Oh the dear bodies, slumped and eye-shut, that could not
keep that vigil, how they must have wept,
so utterly human, knowing this too
must be part of the story.
-Mary Oliver
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The Triduum is one liturgy over three days beginning the evening of Holy Thursday with the Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper. It continues on Good Friday with the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and concludes at night on Holy Saturday.
The Sacred Triduum is our once a year celebration of the Eucharist in its entirety. Every Lord’s Day, we pray the Mass in an abbreviated form of an hour or less. The Eucharist is the heart of the Catholic Christian faith, called from ancient times either the Easter Sacrament (Latin) or the Paschal Mystery (Greek) by which we personally make our own the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holy Thursday gathers the Church around the same table for the Passover meal with Christ and his disciples, now the Eucharistic table of the Christian Faithful. There in the upper room, Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and calls us to servanthood, “What I have done, so you must do”.
On Good Friday we gather in silence to recollect Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. We venerate the Cross for it is the doorway to our salvation. And because Christ died, once, for all, we pray for the entire world to know the salvation of God. We share the bread of life, but there is no consecration on Good Friday, as it is a continuance of Thursday’s liturgy. We end in solemn silence to contemplate more deeply God’s ultimate gift for our sake and the sake of the whole world.
Holy Saturday completes our triduum celebration of the Mass with its emphasis on our living out the mission of discipleship that Christ gives us in “the Easter Sacraments”: baptism, confirmation and Eucharist.
The Holy Saturday liturgy begins in the darkness with the lighting of the new fire that will light our new Easter Candle for the coming year. The flame, like faith itself, passes from person to person throughout the community while the magnificent Easter proclamation is chanted.
Christ the Light of the world (part one) draws the faithful to the Word (part two) and the proclamation of salvation history. Then the Word, in turn, leads us to the living waters of baptism (part three.) Finally, our commitment in faith is fulfilled in Christ the Bread of life (part four.)
The ancients taught us that all of reality is contained in these same four elements: fire, air, water and earth. The Easter Vigil celebrates the Risen Lord Jesus Christ as fire (light), air (word), water (new birth) and earth (bread.)
Throughout Lent, the Church has been accompanying those preparing for the Easter Sacraments by our prayer, our self discipline and our giving for the sake of our brothers and sisters. With them now at the Easter Vigil we will share their joy.
The Easter Sunday schedule is the same as Sunday, but with concurrent/overflow masses in the Parish Center at 9 & 11. We welcome all people drawn to the joy of new life in Christ!
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Compunction is not a sense of guilt that makes us discouraged or obsessed with our unworthiness, but a beneficial “piercing” that purifies and heals the heart. Once we recognize our sin, our hearts can be opened to the working of the Holy Spirit, the source of living water that wells up within us and brings tears to our eyes. Those who are willing to be
“unmasked” and let God’s gaze pierce their heart receive the gift of those tears, the holiest waters after those of baptism. This is my desire for you, dear
brother priests. Pope Francis, Chrism Mass
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Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper
7:30 pm
On this Maundy Thursday, in both the foot-washing and the first communion, all the elements of the old creation are taken up by Jesus and transformed in the making of the new. Jesus is both the fully human companion cleansing his friends with a gentle touch, sharing his last supper with them, showing the fullness of his love, and he also the Word, God in his full creative and shaping power, the One in and through whom everyone in that room, and every element of the world is sustained in the beauty and particularity of its being. What we witness in the birth of the sacraments is both a human drama and a divine act of new creation.
As we receive the familiar sacrament of this night, it may be, that if our eyes and ears are open we will sense Christ’s all-transforming presence even through the ordinary elements of the place where we are.
Blessed Holy Thursday to you all, dear body of Christ.
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On Holy Thursday we will bow down in poverty of spirit for foot-washing, and stand ready to receive the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation.
On the Friday we call Good, we pray with Jesus his last words, “Into your hands I commend my spirit,” and lift the entire world in our united prayer for the redemption found in Him.
And come Easter, we rejoice in the New Life of our Risen Lord among us! We will sing our Alleluia’s! We promise to “live forever in the freedom of the children of God”. So may it be. Amen.
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Here is the source of every sacrament,
The all-transforming presence of the Lord,
Replenishing our every element
Remaking us in his creative Word.
For here the earth herself gives bread and wine,
The air delights to bear his Spirit’s speech,
The fire dances where the candles shine,
The waters cleanse us with His gentle touch.
And here He shows the full extent of love
To us whose love is always incomplete,
In vain we search the heavens high above,
The God of love is kneeling at our feet.
Though we betray Him, though it is the night.
He meets us here and loves us into light.
- M Guite
🎨The Washing of Feet by Sieger Köder
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As we approach Easter, we eagerly anticipate Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi blessing. This tradition serves as a reminder of the universal love and mercy of the Church. It’s a moment of unity, forgiveness, and renewal for Catholics around the world.
Let’s look forward to receiving this blessing and embracing the spirit of Easter.
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When it was evening,
he reclined at table with the Twelve.
And while they were eating, he said,
“Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
Deeply distressed at this,
they began to say to him one after another,
“Surely it is not I, Lord?”
He said in reply,
“He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me
is the one who will betray me.
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,
but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”
Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,
“Surely it is not I, Rabbi?”
He answered, “You have said so.”
-Matthew 26:14-27
Spy Wednesday holds profound significance for Christians worldwide as we remember the events leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is a time for introspection, prayer, and contemplation of the ultimate sacrifice made for the salvation of all humanity.
The betrayal of Judas has a personal sting, being a close disciple, a friend.
In medieval times, monks peered into the chalice before consuming the wine at mass on this day, and of course saw their own reflection upon the wine,the cup of salvation, thus spending the day in reflection and repentance.
The days of the Sacred Triduum are upon us.
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As we contemplate Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, we contemplate weeping itself, the Rerum Lachrymae, as Virgil says, the tears of things : tears of frustration, tears of lament, and for so many who have been cruelly bereaved, tears of grief. It’s hard to see through tears, but sometimes its the only way to see. Tears may be the turning point, the springs of renewal, and to know you have been wept for is to know that you are loved. ‘Jesus Wept’ is the shortest, sharpest, and most moving sentence in Scripture.
I have a God who weeps for me, weeps with me, understands to the depths and from the inside the rerum lachrymae, the tears of things.
Jesus weeps
Jesus comes near and he beholds the city
And looks on us with tears in his eyes,
And wells of mercy, streams of love and pity
Flow from the fountain whence all things arise.
He loved us into life and longs to gather
And meet with his beloved face to face
How often has he called, a careful mother,
And wept for our refusals of his grace,
Wept for a world that, weary with its weeping,
Benumbed and stumbling, turns the other way,
Fatigued compassion is already sleeping
Whilst her worst nightmares stalk the light of day.
But we might waken yet, and face those fears,
If we could see ourselves through Jesus’ tears.
-M. Guite
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