Easter time approaches
Holy Week schedule; Mass of Chrism in Cathedral, Waterford at 11m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7pm Ballysaggart 8.15pm Lismore.
Bring your family Trocaire box to either Mass. Good Frday; Public Sations of the Cross 12 noon from St Carthages Church through the town down to Cathedral led by Dean Paul Draper and Fr Michael Cullinan. Feel free to walk with us. 3pm Good Friday Commemoration of the Passion of Christ 7pm in Ballysaggart. Stations of the Cross at 8pm in St Carthage’s Church Easter Vigil 9pm in St Carthages Church Easter Sunday 9.30am Ballysaggart, 11am Lismore.
Try and make time to come and participate in our Holy Week. Using Word, Song and Music with symbolic gestures we will enter the Dying and Rising with Jesus Christ. Do not be afraid, was something Jesus said many times to those who walked with him. His were troubled times. Ours are so troubled. It is the first time that we can see the cruelty and inhumanity of war instanteously. In the face of such evil we feel helpless, and yet that feeling does no good... Out of the dying and rising so many people are responding with such generosity.
With Holy Thursday we enter the mind of Jesus Christ so that we may go on doing what he said ‘ Do this in memory of me. The very heart of our Faith is the Eucharist, where we come as active participants, not as passive audience. After the Gospel you will walk up to the altar with your gifts for the poor. With Good Friday we will look into the face of the crucified Christ and see the love that sets us free. When the Gospel tells of the Risen Christ it is always with the wounds of Good Friday.
Our veneration of the Holy Cross will be a reverent bow as Covid is still about. We will make a generous donation to the Good Fri collection for the poor Christians in Holy Land. They have suffered much due to the collapse of the pilgrims coming and walking with them
Easter Vigil as night falls will lead us by song and organ, word and gesture to capture something of the Easter event. From darkness into blinding light, from nothingness to creation, from alienation for salvation. Holding our Easter Candles as we renew our Baptismal promises we will face the world with hope in our hearts. The evil that war has unleashed on our world has led to a spirit of humanity and generosity that is the only response to that evil.