Holy Week at Home Retreat for the Domestic Church
Sheboygan South Catholic Parishes
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April 5th 2020 Palm Sunday
| Parish Online Event: Palm Sunday Mass: 9:00 AM LIVE stream in English 1:00 PM LIVE stream in Hmong | Suggested Activities: • Gather “Midwest” Palm branches in nature and display them above your door or in your home. OR • Printable Palms for Palm Sunday https://www.catholicicing.com/printable-palms-for-palm-sunday-free/ • Download/Read the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Document: “Holy Week in The Domestic Church: An at Home Guide for Individuals and Families” at this link: https://www.archmil.org/Courageous-Communion/Holy-Week.htm • Plan your Holy Week activities using this document and the document listed above. Prayer and Reflection: † Read one of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem: Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-10, or Luke 19:28-40. Now imagine the scene as if you were there. Hear and see the crowd around you, the palms on the path. Imagine you are laying down palms and welcoming Jesus. What else could you do to make Jesus feel honored, respected and welcomed? We all long to feel welcomed and accepted. Let us pass this same welcome on to others. |
April 6th – April 8th Holy Week
| Stay connected through our SSCP Facebook Page (link at top of document) and our website: www.sscparishes.org | Suggested Activities: • Watch the Mini-Series: Jesus of Nazareth (Available on Prime Video) • Create a Home Altar: https://www.catholicicing.com/how-to-set-up-a-home-altar-catholic-home-altar-ideas/ • Make a stained glass window: Stained Glass Window Instructions |
| • Organize a shared virtual meal with family and friends for Easter Sunday using Zoom. Learn about using Zoom here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us | |
| Prayer and Reflection: Access Daily Readings here: † Monday Readings for Mass http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040620.cfm † Tuesday Readings for Mass http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040720.cfm † Wednesday Readings for Mass http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040820.cfm † See also: Matthew 21:12-26:14; Mark 11:12-14:11; Luke 19:45-22:6; John 12:27-5 | |
| † Pray a Rosary daily |
April 9th Holy Thursday
| Parish Online Event: Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00 PM LIVE stream | Suggested Activities: • Bake bread or rolls (from scratch or Pillsbury) OR • Make Hot Cross Buns: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/hot-cross-buns-recipe-1928112 • Wash your children’s feet and teach them about having a servant’s heart. • View Holy Thursday Slideshow of Sacred Art by Fr. Paul Fliss Holy Thursday Slideshow Here |
| Prayer and Reflection: | |
| † Evening Meal Prayer on Holy Thursday: Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 St Paul’s Last Supper Offer some spontaneous intercessions. Conclude with the Lord’s Prayer. † After Mass: Read the Agony in the Garden (Matthew 26:36-46) | |
| Theme: Hunger for God You meet us in our hungering with mana not of our making, and in our thirsting you surprise us with unexpected wine. You are the source of our desiring and the end of all our longing. -Jan Richardson- † How have you been nourishing your spirit? † What in you, is not being nourished? † Is there too much of something, or too little? † How is God asking you to nourish someone else? |
April 10th Good Friday
| Parish Online Event: Good Friday The Passion of the Lord 1:00 PM LIVE stream | Suggested Activities: • Fast and Abstinence Day • Make or draw, or paint a cross. • Donate Blood: The Red Cross Website |
| • View Good Friday Slideshow of Sacred Art by Fr. Paul Fliss Good Friday Slideshow Here Prayer and Reflection: † Pray with our on-line Stations of the Cross SSCP Stations of the Cross † Read the Passion of Jesus from the Gospel of John (Chapters 18-19) Imagine standing at the foot of the cross. Imagine Jesus’ physical agony. Be aware of your feelings as you witness his sufferings. What do you want to say to him? Theme: Letting Go for New Life All the works of God proceed slowly and in pain; but then their roots are sturdier and their flowering the lovelier. -Blessed Theresa Gerhardinger, SSND- † What are the “Works of God’” in your life that proceed slowly and in pain? † What do you need to surrender at the cross? † Does someone need you to go to the cross with them? † Reflect on what you are mourning right now during this time apart. |
April 11th Holy Saturday
| Parish Online Event: Holy Saturday The Easter Vigil: 8:00 PM LIVE stream | Suggested Activities: • Continue Fasting and Abstinence up until the Easter Vigil • Write a letter to your future self to remind yourself how this time in history as impacted your relationship with self, God and others. • Have a bonfire or use your fireplace. • Light your baptism candles and look at family photos and family memories of our baptisms. |
| • Color Easter Eggs | |
| Prayer and Reflection: † Pray for our RCIA Candidates and Catechumen, who’s sacraments have been delayed at this time. | |
| † Use this food blessing ritual to bless your Easter foods: I. ORDER OF BLESSING THE EASTER FOODS INTRODUCTORY RITES All make the sign of the cross and reply: Amen. Leader: For our sake Christ became obedient, accepting even death, death on a cross. Therefore God raised him on high and gave him the name above all other names. Blessed be God for ever. All: Blessed be God for ever. Leader: Throughout Lent we have been preparing for the resurrection of the Lord by prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. Our lenten fasting is a reminder of our hunger and thirst for holiness which is satisfied only by Christ who feeds and nourishes us by his word and sacraments. When we gather at our first meal of Easter may this food be a sign for us of that heavenly banquet to which the Lord calls us. READING OF THE WORD OF GOD A Reading from the book of Deuteronomy Observe the month of Abib by keeping the Passover of the LORD, your God, since it was in the month of Abib that he brought you by night out of Egypt. You shall offer the Passover sacrifice from your flock or your herd to the LORD, your God, in the place which he chooses as the dwelling place of his name. You shall not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you shall eat with it only unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, that you may remember as long as you live the day of your departure from the land of Egypt; for in frightened haste you left the land of Egypt. Nothing leavened may be found in all your territory for seven days, and none of the meat which you sacrificed on the evening of the first day shall be kept overnight for the next day. You may not sacrifice the Passover in any of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you; only at the place which he chooses as the dwelling place of his name, and in the evening at sunset, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt, shall you sacrifice the Passover. You shall cook and eat it at the place the LORD, your God, chooses; then in the morning you may return to your tents. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh there shall be a solemn meeting in honor of the LORD, your God; on that day you shall not do any sort of work. The Word of the Lord INTERCESSIONS Leader: The Son of God who invites us to the Paschal feast stands ready to help. Let us call upon him in our need. R. Lord, prepare us for the feast of life. Assisting minister: That Easter may find us cleansed of sin and ready to live anew our Christian faith, we pray to the Lord. R. Assisting minister: That the bread we share may be a reminder of the bread of life we share in the eucharist, we pray to the Lord. R. Assisting minister: That we may be ready to give from our table to those who hunger and thirst, we pray to the Lord. R. Assisting minister: That we may one day enjoy the banquet of the Lord in the heavenly kingdom, we pray to the Lord. R. All: Our Father . . . Theme: Waiting for New Life You hollow us out, God, so that we may carry you, and you endlessly fill us, only to be emptied again. Make smooth our inward spaces and sturdy, that we may hold you with less resistance and bear you with deeper grace. –Jan Richardson- † What “answers in life” are you waiting for? Are answers important? Why or why not? † How have you experienced God’s grace (or not) in times of waiting? † Does anyone need your support in their own waiting? |
April 12th Easter Sunday
| Parish Online Event: Easter Sunday Mass 9:00 AM LIVE stream in English 1:00 PM LIVE stream in Hmong | Suggested Activities: •Host an Online Party •Plant a bulb outside or in a pot and celebrate “New Life”. • View Easter Slideshow of Sacred Art by Fr. Paul Fliss Easter Slideshow Here |
| Prayer and Reflection: | |
| † Special Meal Blessing Easter Sunday Meal Prayer Lord God, on this most holy day Let your blessing rest upon us And upon our table. Let us share in your passing over From death to life. Bless us and this food of our first Easter meal. May we who gather at the Lord’s table Continue to celebrate the joy of the resurrection And be admitted finally to the heavenly banquet. And may the Risen Lord Jesus open our eyes that we may know him In the breaking of the bread. ALL Bless Us O Lord, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive From thy bounty, through Christ, Our Lord. AMEN | |
| Theme: New Life We are called to stand in awe at the unfolding miracle of being loved and the surprise that greets us when we finally open our hearts to receive the light that awakes us. -Doris Klein, CSA- † How can you find new Easter life—forgiveness, renewed hope, peace? † Where or how has God surprised you? † Are you open to trying new things, challenges, in order to find God’s presence there? † Describe what your New Life will look like. |