Month: March 2021

CatholicBricks Holy Week Schedule

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To assist you in meditating on the events of Holy Week, the following posts will be made according to this schedule (New York timezone). As there are so many people around the world this year who are prevented from attending Mass by their governments, it is my hope that this artwork and links to music will be of some spiritual assistance.

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Holy Thursday:

6pm — The Last Supper

7pm — Jesus washes the feet of his disciples

8pm — the agony in the garden

Good Friday:

8am — the scourging

9am — the crowning with thorns

10am — behold, the man

11am — the carrying of the cross

12 noon — The Crucifixion

3pm — Pietà

Easter Sunday:

9am — The Resurrection

Palm Sunday

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On Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, we take home blessed palm fronds in commemoration of Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

“And on the next day, a great multitude that was to come to the festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.” John 12:12-13

Making a Holy Hour

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Making a holy hour in Eucharistic adoration “Could you not watch one hour with me?” Mt 26:40 There are many ways to make a holy hour in Eucharistic adoration. Some people pray the Rosary, while others make their most heartfelt petitions in conversation with Jesus. Some read scripture or meditations designed for Eucharistic adoration, and others just look at the Blessed Sacrament. When asked what he did in Eucharistic adoration, St. John Vianney replied, “Nothing. I just look at Him, and He looks at me.”

Here are some suggestions if you want to make a holy hour.

St. Patrick’s Day

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St Patrick (387-461)

The patron saint of Ireland, Patrick was a Christian Romanized Briton who was captured by Irish pagan slavers in his youth. He spent six years in slavery before escaping with the assistance of an angel, who one night told him to get up and walk to the seashore. He was able to do so unmolested, and there he found a ship whose crew agreed to allow him to travel with them.

Some time afterward, he received a dream in which the people of Ireland were begging him to come back to them as a missionary, which he did, later becoming a bishop.

Perhaps one of the most famous saints, Patrick has many stories and legends attached to him, including using the shamrock to teach about the Trinity, chasing the snakes out of Ireland, and a vision of Hell.

Learn more about St. Patrick

Lúireach Phádraig (St. Patrick’s Breastplate, sung in Irish Gaelic)