13 April 10:00am | 5:30pm
Fast Facts on
Palm Sunday It marks the beginning of Holy Week. It commemorates the triumphant entry of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem, where he would be crucified five days later.
By Angela Paguio
The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is the animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war. Hence, Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem symbolized His entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king. Why palm branches? Even in the ancient times, palm trees were referred to as “phoenix trees” because of the shape of its leaves and their ability to grow new foliage even after being burnt. During the time of Jesus, these served as emblems of nationalism and symbols of resurrection. The traditions of Palm Sunday are largely based on the description from the Gospel of John.
It is also known as Passion Sunday. Its liturgical color is red.
The liturgy for Palm Sunday usually follows the palm processions with a reading of the Passion story – a meaningful reminder that many of the same crowd that welcomed Jesus to Jerusalem would participate in the mob that cheered for his death less than a week later.
Holy Week 2014
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17 April 5:00pm
Eucharistic Vigil on Holy Thursday TRANSFER OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST
The consecrated Eucharistic bread, is carried in procession, from the Church to the place of reposition. During the procession, the hymn Pange Lingua (stanzas 1-4) or another Eucharistic song is sung. When the procession reaches the place of reposition, the celebrant incenses the Eucharistic bread, while Tantum ergo (Pange lingua, stanzas 5-6) is sung. The tabernacle of repose is then closed. After a few moments of silent adoration, the priests and ministers of the altar leave. The faithful are encouraged to continue the adoration before the Blessed Sacrament for a suitable period of time through the evening. There should be no solemn adoration after midnight.
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Pange Lingua (Sing, My Tongue) Sing, my tongue, the ageless story as the cross is lifted high! Tell how Christ our Savior conquered, When for us He came to die As a victim in the battle, death’s dominion to belie To the Virgin, for our healing, His own Son the Father sends; From the Father’s love proceeding Sower, seed and word descends; Wondrous life of Word incarnate With His greatest wonder ends. On that paschal evening see him With chosen twelve recline, To the old law still obedient In its feast of love divine; Love divine,the new law giving Gives Himself as Bread and Wine. By His word the Word almighty Makes of bread his flesh indeed; Wine becomes his very life-blood Faith God’s living Word must heed! Faith alone may safely guide us Where the senses cannot lead
“This is my body given up for you”
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oday we commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist and also the institution of the Priesthood. Christ is present in the Eucharist, in the sacrament of His death and resurrection. In and through the Eucharist, we acknowledge the dwelling-place of the Living God in human history. It is the Sacrament of the Covenant, pure Gift of Love for the reconciliation of all humanity. It is the gift of the Real Presence of Jesus The Redeemer, in the bread which is His Body given up for us, in the wine which is His Blood poured out for all. For the Eucharist is the Sacrament of the Love which conquers death. c r e d i tOF : wTHE w w .IMMACULATE lifeteen.com PARISH HEART OF MARY
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REMEMBER :) *As we approach and before leaving the place of reposition, the proper gesture is to have both knees touch the ground and make a profound bow.
Tantum Ergo (English) Come, adore this wondrous presence Bow to Christ, the source of grace! Here is kept the ancient promise Of God’s earthly dwelling place! Sight is blind before God’s glory, Faith alone may see God’s face. Glory be to God the Father, Praise to his co-equal Son, Adoration to the Spirit, Bond of love in God-head one! Blest be God by all creation Joyously while ages run! Amen Tantum Ergo (Latin) Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui, (bow) Et antiquum documentum Novo cedat ritui; Praestet fides supplementum, Sensuum defectui. Genitori Genitoque Laus et jubilatio; Salus honor, virtus quoque Sit et benedictio Procedenti ab utroque Compar sit laudatio Amen.
18 April 3:00pm
Reminders on
Veneration of
Cross
on Good Friday The people approach to venerate the cross. They make a simple genuflection or perform some other appropriate sign of reverence according to local custom. During the veneration, suitable songs may be sung. All who have venerated the cross return to their places and sit.
EUCHARISTIC VIGIL
Holy Thursday|April 17, 2014 Community Assignments 6pm-7pm St. Philip, St. Matthew 7pm-8pm St. John, St. James the Less 8pm-9pm St. Peter, St. Andrew, 9pm-10pm St. Thomas, St. Simon 10pm-11pm St. Bartholomew, St. Jude 11pm-12mn St. James the Great St. Matthias
Holy Week SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES ( n ex t p age ) PARISH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Linggo ng Palaspas
Lunes Santo
Miyerkules Santo
Huwebes Santo
APRIL 13
APRIL 14
APRIL 16
APRIL 17
time 10AM
event
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HOLY MASS 7AM (TAGALOG) Mass starts at the hill in front of parish church for palm blessing 4PM then proceeds to the parish church
5:30PM HOLY MASS
event
HOLY MASS
7AM
HOLY MASS
4PM
at PIHM Parish Church
at Via Dolorosa, Sitio Pinagmisahan
MARTES SANTO APRIL 15
(ENGLISH)
at PIHM Parish Church 7AM
4PM
6PM
7PM
time
3PM6PM
event
time
HOLY MASS
6AM
HOLY MASS
9AM
General Rehe for Paschal Tr (for parish wo at PIHM Paris Church
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
5PM
EVENING M OF THE LO SUPPER
at PIHM Parish Church
at Via Dolorosa, Sitio Pinagmisahan
at Parish grounds
HOLY MASS
HOLY MASS
6PM
HOLY MASS
at PIHM Parish Church
HOLY MASS
at PIHM Parish Church
PARISH LENTEN RECOLLETION
led by the Evangelion Foundation, Inc.
CHRISM MA
at Antipolo Cathedral
Pagmimisa sa Pagtatakipsil Paghahapuna Panginoon at PIHM Paris Church • Washing of Feet • Procession Blessed Sacra
at PIHM Parish Church at Via Dolorosa, Sitio Pinagmisahan
event
Start of the P Triduum, our gest Holy Ma 6PM12MN
EUCHARIST VIGIL
Solemn Adora before the Al Repose
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Biyernes Santo
Sabado de Gloria
Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay
APRIL 18
APRIL 19
APRIL 20
time 4:30AM
Paschal r lonass
NOVENA FOR THE DIVINE MERCY
(Day1) at PIHM Parish grounds
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2:30PM
event
time
NOVENA FOR THE DIVINE MERCY
9AM
EASTER VIGIL
10:30AM
event
HOLY MASS (TAGALOG)
at PIHM Parish Church
(Day2) at PIHM Parish Church
Procession will end at the Parish grounds
MASS 7:30AM ORD’S
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DAYBREAK STATIONS OF THE CROSS
time
Daan ng Krus sa Bukang Liwayway at Assumption Antipolo
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3PM
CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S PASSION
Pagdiriwang sa pagpapakasakit ng Panginoon at PIHM Parish Church
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ation tar of
9PM12MN
Magdamagang Pagdiriwang sa Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay at PIHM Parish Church Trentang Gitara para sa Kanya PIHM Guitar Orchestra plays for the Paschal Praeconium Salubong follows after Mass Please wear white and bring a candle. The Climax of the Sacred Paschal Triduum Easter season (lasts 50 days) ends on Pentecost.
TBA-to be announced
HOLY MASS (TAGALOG)
at PIHM Parish Church
Easter Egg Hunt follows after 2:30pm
NOVENA FOR THE DIVINE MERCY
(Day3) at PIHM Parish grounds 5:30PM
HOLY MASS (ENGLISH)
at PIHM Parish Church
The Paschal Triduum
17-19 APRIL
Our longest Mass...ever.
By Min Arellano
F
ollowing Lent is the second and the most important part of the Easter Cycle: the PASCHAL TRIDUUM or EASTER TRIDUUM. The Triduum begins on the night of the Holy Thursday, peaks on Easter Vigil and ends with the evening prayers of Easter Sunday. Pascha is greek for Passover which recalls the meal on the night of the escape of the Israelites from death and from Egypt. It also refers to the passion, death and resurrection of Christ who is the true sacrificial lamb that liberates us from sin and death. The three different events form one inseparable unity for they all reveal the same amazing truth: GOD’s LOVE FOR US.
DAY 1 begins with the Celebration of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It was a night of close fellowship mingled with pain, a night of gift-giving and love shared in the shadow of impending betrayal. In his last meal with the apostles , Christ gives his friends the gift of his flesh and blood in the form of bread and wine; thus was the Holy Eucharist instituted. The gift of his love through death on the cross was anticipated and offered to them, and to us, sacramentally. When he bade them “Do this in memory of me”, he tells them, and us, to be bread for the world also. He then stooped before them and WASHED THEIR FEET and commanded them: “What I have done for you, you should do also” i.e., we are to give ourselves to others in love and PARISH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
humble service. The PROCESSION WITH GIFTS FOR THE POOR may follow as one of our concrete responses to Christ’s command. In this Mass, we thank God, too, for the institution of the Priesthood. (In the morning of Holy Thursday, all the priests gather with the bishop in the cathedral to celebrate the Chrism Mass and renew their priestly vows.) Our ordained ministers serve as Christ’s representatives, ministering to, teaching and guiding us; as they vow fidelity to God and their calling, we pray that they may be good shepherds like our Lord. The priest then transfers the Blessed Sacrament to a chapel or to a special place for reposition. The empty altar gives us a sense of gloom because we are separated from the “groom who has been taken away.” We stay awhile to thank Jesus for the gift of the Holy Eucharist and keep watch with him in remembrance of the agony in the garden. This EVENING ADORATION before the blessed Sacrament ends on Holy Thursday. It is GOOD FRIDAY, still DAY1, and we gather in silence in church at the hour of Christ’s death around 3:00 p.m. The passion story as told by John is proclaimed ending with the supreme act of self-sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for us. Hence, the centrality of the cross in our faith. In the VENERATION OF THE CROSS
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that follows, we kiss, and embrace this symbol of God’s awesome love, of his becoming human, then suffering and dying for us. It may remind us of sin, evil and death; but it also stands for our salvation and liberation. It arouses pangs of conscience for our role in Christ’s death, but it also conveys mercy, compassion and reconciliation. It tells us to hate sin and reminds us of the pain and suffering of the countless poor; it challenges us to carry on Christ’s work of justice, peace, and love. It calls us to true discipleship through self-denial, bearing trials and following Christ’s way of life and obedience to the Father’s will. The Veneration of the Cross is the community and individual’s tribute to God’s love, self-gift, power and victory. The COMMUNION SERVICE that comes next is a memorial of the new Covenant offered by Christ: My Body is broken for you; my blood, shed for you.” By eating and drinking the Body and Blood in the hosts that had been consecrated in Holy Thursday evening, we proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again, and we agree to do these things in memory of him: love as he loved, live as he lived. Day 1 ends.
DAY 2 of the Triduum begins in the Evening of Good Friday and ends on Holy Saturday Evening. There are not too many activities this time. We reflect on the death and burial of Jesus who lies in the tomb: resting from his work, from suffering; resting, if you will, in the arms of his Father. He lies and waits until he is called to rise. It is a good time to renew our baptismal vows and declare our
resolution to remain dead to sin and keep alive our faith. Meditating on Christ lying in the tomb, we also allow the scene to speak to us of our own final hour. Do we have a wise and holy fear, i.e. a healthy fear that keeps us on the right side of the moral / spiritual fence and ready to go anytime? Only when we strive to respond positively to Christ’s love and obey his Father’s will can we readily go: as Paul says, “..Life means Christ; hence dying is so much gain.”- Philippians 1:21 During the Celebration of the Easter Vigil, DAY 3, we come to the climax of the Triduum and the whole Liturgical year and to the start of the Easter Season. The first celebration is the EASTER or PASCHAL VIGIL which has, like a beautiful symphony, four movements. First is the SERVICE OF THE LIGHT. We wait in darkness because Jesus is gone and we mourn his absence. The fire burning in the church yard tells us that we are purified by the Easter mysteries we commemorate; and that the light of resurrection is soon to break out and give meaning to all that Christ had suffered. The Easter candle is lit from the fire; this signifies that light has overcome darkness; and that light is Christ. In his light, we see light. We pray that his light might fill our lives and that we might bring it to others in turn. The past also brings light to us. In the LITURGY OF THE WORD, we listen to great prophecies and salvation stories from the Bible. We see God’s love and concern for his people as we follow how he had inter(cont. at the back) PARISH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
The Paschal Triduum (from previous page)
vened and rescued them time and again through the ages. But it is Jesus’ coming, dying and rising that gloriously demonstrate this incredible love. He died that we might live. We search our hearts: have we responded to Christ’s gift of sacrificial love? Is he alive in us? Is he reflected in our thoughts, words, or deeds? The LITANY OF BAPTISM invites us to renew our baptismal vows, remembering that by this sacrament, we were buried with Christ and rose with him to new life with missions to fulfill. If Christ is our Lord and we truly love him, we want to recommit ourselves to him by renouncing sin and professing our faith while holding lit candles to show our gladness in belonging to our church, and our firm resolve to make good our pledge. This celebration is one of the high points of the Easter Vigil. May it be really such for each one of us. The second main celebration is the HOLY EUCHARIST, the great thanksgiving sacrifice which caps the Easter Vigil. We proclaim with great joy: Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed. Jesus alive enters into his glory, a glory he wants to share with us, the glory he had left and the glory he returns to after serving us, sacrificing himself for us. We sing the GLORIA with jubilation, for Christ has shown power
DIVINE MERCY PROCESSION
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over death, and his sacrifice on the cross is our redemption and liberation. The Easter Sunday Mass (besides the Vigil Mass) is likewise a most joyful one especially for those who missed the Easter Vigil. The celebration will raise them up and the renewal of their baptismal vows will strengthen their faith. In the evening, the Paschal Triduum ends with vespers with special praise, thanksgiving and petition. The Easter season then runs for 50 days ending in Pentecost. The descent of the Holy Spirit is the fruit of the death and resurrection of Christ who had said: “if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come.” Jn 16:7. This outpouring of the Holy Spirit enabled the apostles and the young church to continue the work of Christ. The same Holy Spirit will be with us as we return to our homes, our workplaces and our community and share God’s message of love and show a life of obedience to the Father’s will. In this way we join what God is doing now: changing the world. He does it through us and the transformation starts with ourselves, especially during Lent when we are cleansed and purified. We are filled with new hope that comes from the risen Lord who calls us to make the covenant: My body is broken for you; my blood shed for you. Do this in memory of me.” Thus we stay awake for the final coming of the Lord without fear, and with joy though we do not know the hour when he will come. Come my Lord! Maranatha! A P ROJE C T OF T H E P IH M E V A NG E L IZA T ION & WORS HIP M I N IS T RY IN C OOP E RA T ION W IT H T H E P I H M M E D IA M I N IS T RY T E L N O. 6 9 6 -4 3 8 7
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