Collected here are resources to help you pray during this unusual Holy Week. As we stay physically separated, let us be in social solidarity and spiritual union. We are all members of the Mystical Body of Christ, connected intimately with our savior and one another. Below you will find documents, videos, and websites to explore, for adults and children.
Scroll down to find documents and other resources.
Triduum: A Spiritual Pilgrimage- Celebrate Easter by taking a 30-minute journey to the Holy Land. This film cinematically walks through the locations of the Holy Week story, re-presenting the most important days of human history. Immersed in the real and sacred places of the Holy Land, the pilgrim faithful is brought tangibly nearer to the story, the landscape, and the reality of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Go to:
https://watch.formed.org/videos/triduum
Holy Week Services with Archbishop Gregory - the Archdiocese of Washington is live-streaming services from the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, DC, on the archdiocese's YouTube channel: youtube.com/washarchdiocese. The link to watch will appear just as the service is set to start.
April 5 | Palm Sunday: 10:00 am (archived here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUEUiIGpoXY)
April 9 | Holy Thursday: 5:30 pm
April 10 | Good Friday: 1:00 pm
April 11 | Easter Vigil: 8:00 pm
April 12 | Easter Sunday: 10:00 am
April 12 | Easter Sunday: 12:00 pm (on the
National Shrine’s YouTube channel)
Catholic Icing - a website filled with crafts, projects, educational materials, foods, to help children learn about our Catholic faith. There are lots of ideas for celebrating Holy Week including a printable palm cross!
https://www.catholicicing.com/
Bishop Robert Baron of Word on Fire Ministries - see our parish's Home Page, lower right corner, for videos from Bishop Barron, including videos of him presiding at Holy Week Masses. Here is a direct link:
https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/
Holy Week at Home - A Prayer Resource We can walk with Jesus during Holy Week wherever we are, even if we are not in church. The document below -
Holy Week at Home - will help you pray with prayer services and rituals adapted from the Catholic liturgies. You can pray these lovely prayers either alone or with others, including children, on Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night, and Easter Sunday. These prayers are not meant to replace watching the liturgies (viewing options will be posted soon), but are meant to be used in addition to to the liturgies, to enhance our connection to the Lord and the Church. We appreciate Liturgical Press for making this document available for free.
The Walk with Jesus Text Experience - This is a real-time, text message series during Holy Week sponsored by SHINE-FM Radio (95.1). Each day of Holy Week, you will receive text messages to update you on what Jesus would have been doing at that moment. It begins on Palm Sunday, April 5. To join, text EASTER to 88474.