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Holy Week with the Victoria Ordinariate

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Ordinary Day?

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Today, Holy Saturday, we remain in isolation. We recall Jesus laid to rest in the Tomb. The Holy Sepulchre is closed today, as it was when a great stone was rolled across its entrance to seal the Tomb. passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; A dawn of gold brightly beaming. Clouds rapidly slid their way in; a grey canvas framed the sky. Threads of blue tempt one to hope. The sun returns; it never left. Clouds merely obscured it. Patience. The prison cannot contain the Son. The Virus has enabled a solemn and uneasy quiet for this day, as it did yesterday, Good Friday. Mind you, grocery stores were relatively busy; queues were slow. Conversations - at the required two metres - were quite enjoyable; not trite. Today is Holy Saturday. 624 "By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one". In his plan of salvation, God ord...

Holy Week with Blessed John Henry Newman Church, Vancouver Island

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TRUE PARTICIPATION IN THE MASS

"I was gathered into the offering of the Son to the Father. I participated in the self-offering of God today."

FEATURED SCRIPTURE | Revelation 7:9-12

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

THE GOLDEN ARROW

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

FEATURED QUOTE

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. ― Thomas Sowell