Praying Holy Week
Each day of Holy Week offers a new way to engage with this most sacred season.
Click on each day below for a page of music, text, video, and photographs to help you pray along the road to Calvary and the Empty Tomb.
- Palm Sunday
We hear anew the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. - Monday in Holy Week
An invitation to experience spiritual mystery on its deepest and most cosmic scale. - Tuesday in Holy Week
Transformed into the Body of Christ, we are given for the world. - Wednesday in Holy Week
Sustained reflection on the Lord’s suffering and death. - Maundy Thursday
The beginning of the holiest three days in an already holy week. - Good Friday
We commemorate the Lord’s crucifixion and death. - Holy Saturday
A day of waiting, anticipation, and preparation. - Easter Sunday
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Video Resources, Arranged by Series (Time in min:sec):
HOLY WEEK SCHOOL OF PRAYER
Short reflections on the moving liturgies of the week and their meaning.
 Wednesday (4:09) |
 Thursday (2:26) |
 Good Friday (2:55) |
 Holy Saturday (2:01) |
PRAYING OUR LIVES
Experiencing Holy Week as a journey into the heart of God through prayer.
 Sunday (1:51) Vulnerability |
 Monday (2:59) Compassion |
 Tuesday (2:59) Experience |
 Wednesday (3:11) Paradox |
 Thursday (2:51) Revelation |
 Friday (3:01) Suffering |
 Saturday (3:15) Emptiness |
HOLY WEEK SCHOOL OF PRAYER
Video teachings on how to pray Holy Week through meditating on Jesus.
“The Resurrection and the Life” (Sat, 55:37).
I have found the Lent course of Marks of Mission invaluable as a starter for sermons and other reflexion during the run up to Easter. I have appreciated how rewarding it is to be drawn to contemplate more deeply the five wounds of Christ at this time.
I was pleased to see that your videos are once again being shown daily in the cathedral in Canterbury.
Thank you for your inspiration from across the Pond!
Have a joyous Easter
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The Lenten Study, “Marks of Mission” has been a source of growth and a deeper consciousness and inspiration of the love of Christ in our lives and how we (I) can reach out in faith to serve others in a loving, caring way to the glory of God.
Thank you for Lenten journey. It is so good to feel part of this virtual community. I continue with you in prayer.
Caroline
As someone who remembers Father Banner at the old wooden
church on Bowdin Street in Boston, it’s reassuring to see that
SSJE is still providing its healing services.