Posts with the category “holy-week”

Spend time in prayer with the Testimony Creation Guide and work on answering at least 5 of the questions, if not creating a 1-2 page written testimony by Tuesday Read the Readings of the Day (Or just one from Book of Acts or Gospel) each day (Great ones about resurrection and about the early church Take a look at Fr. Alex's homilies the past few days --they are excellent and what discipleship is a...  Read More

Increase your personal prayer time by 30 minutes each day.  Spend extra time thanking Jesus and meditating on Jesus' last days, the Last Supper, Jesus Passion and Death.  Read the scriptures on these topics and place yourself in the scene:Matthew 26-27Mark 14-15Luke 22-23John 12-19Those are all the chapters that have relevant information.  Read more than you normally would.  Journal about what you...  Read More

We spent this night looking at Holy Week and the Triduum and seeking to access it with our hearts, to really feel what it would have been like to be a disciple at the time Jesus gave His life for us.  In order to set the tone, we watched the following clip from The Chosen. This is not a scene from the time of Jesus' Passion, it is earlier on in his ministry--the healing of Jairus' daughter.  This ...  Read More