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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Phone: (619) 435-3167
sacredheart@sacredheartcor.org
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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“Jesus says: ‘Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
The Lord does not reserve this phrase for certain friends of his, no; he addresses it to ‘all’ those who are weary and overwhelmed by life. And who could feel excluded from this invitation? The Lord knows how arduous life can be. He knows that many things weary the heart: disappointments and wounds of the past, burdens to carry and wrongs to bear in the present, uncertainties and worries about the future.
In the face of all this, Jesus’ first word is an invitation, a call to move and respond: ‘Come’. The mistake, when things go wrong, is to stay where we are, lying there. It seems obvious, but how difficult it is to respond and open ourselves! It is not easy. In dark times it feels natural to keep to ourselves, to ruminate over how unfair life is, over how ungrateful others are, how mean the world is, and so on. We all know it. We have had this awful experience a few times. But in this way, locked up inside ourselves, we see everything as grim. Then we even grow accustomed to sadness, which becomes like home: that sadness overcomes us; this sadness is a terrible thing. Jesus, however, wants to pull us out of this ‘quicksand’ and thus says to each one: ‘Come! — Who? — You, you, you’. The way out is in connecting, in extending a hand and lifting our gaze to those who truly love us.
In fact it is not enough to come out of ourselves; it is important to know where to go. Because many aims are illusory: they promise comfort and distract just a little; they guarantee peace and offer amusement, then leave us with the loneliness there was before; they are ‘fireworks’. Therefore Jesus indicates where to go: ‘Come to me’. And many times, in the face of a burden of life or a situation that saddens us, we try to talk about it with someone who listens to us, with a friend, with an expert.... This is a great thing to do, but let us not forget Jesus. Let us not forget to open ourselves to him and to recount our life to him, to entrust people and situations to him.”
- Pope Francis
Art by Sieger Koder
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Holy Thursday Evening: The Mass of the Lord’s Supper is celebrated at 7:30pm on March 28th.
Its two more dramatic elements are the washing of the feet after the gospel and the procession with the Blessed Sacrament at the end.
Holy Thursday brings to life for us what happened at “the Last Supper” when Jesus, in an upper room with the disciples for the Jewish Passover meal, acted out for those at table what it would mean for them to carry on his mission on earth. He washed their feet as one “called to serve and not to be served.”
Holy Thursday commemorates the institution of the sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders. Jesus “took the bread, blest it, broke it, gave it to his disciples, saying take this and eat it: this is my Body.” Using the imagery and biblical language of the day, Jesus was saying: “this is me.” With the wine become his Blood he was saying: “this is my life.”
We learn that the Mass is a holy meal.
The liturgy concludes in the same way the Last Supper did. Jesus led the disciples through Jerusalem outside the city walls to the garden of Gethsemane where he would wait in vigil for his trial and death. The priest carries the Blessed Sacrament through the church, outside and over to St. Francis Chapel, representing the garden of olives.
The congregation may follow in procession as did the disciples in Jerusalem. The altar is stripped with solemnity. We may depart in silence or remain with Jesus “in vigil” waiting with him praying about what the next day (Good Friday) would bring. This is the origin of our custom of praying in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Adoration ends at 11:00pm on Thursday.
“Will you spend an hour with Him?”
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We pray to him, through him, in him; we speak with him, he speaks with us.
- St Augustine of Hippo
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