Throwback Thursday: Praying Through Holy Week

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Find out how the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist from Duluth pray during Holy Week, and maybe discover something you can use in your prayer life as we walk with Jesus from his entry into Jerusalem, to Calvary and the Resurrection. The unique prayer commitment Fr. Mike suggests in this episode follows Jesus through all of his experiences—from suffering to celebration—in this the holiest week of the year.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Father Mike Schmitz. This is Ascension Presents. Holy Week is the holiest time of the year.
0:04.6	The Tridum, the last three days of Holy Week are the most sacred, the most holy time.
0:10.8	And yet I think a lot of us don't necessarily know, like how do I pray in a unique way during Holy Week?
0:15.8	Well in my town here in Duluth, Minnesota we have some phenomenal religious sisters called the
0:20.6	Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. And how they observe Holy Week just blows my mind. And I
0:25.2	want to share with you what they've shared with me about how they observe Holy Week. Every day
0:30.9	has another intention, every day has another focus. So they actually start, not on Palm Sunday,
0:35.5	they start on the Saturday before Palm Sunday and they call it, it's called Commitment Sunday,
0:40.0	the day before Palm Sunday that Jesus knowing that he was going to go into Jerusalem and was going
0:44.4	to suffer, was going to die and rise from the dead, that he had to reaffirm that commitment,
0:50.4	his face was set like flint and he was going to go after the Father's will. So Commitment Saturday
0:55.8	to be able to say how committed do I experience my pursuing the Lord? Like he was committed to pursuing
1:02.8	me in his march to Calvary. Number two was Palm Sunday, of course, called Procession Sunday.
1:09.0	This public witness, will I walk with him as he goes into Jerusalem? Will I walk with Jesus as he
1:14.7	publicly walks into Jerusalem? So Commitment Saturday, Procession Sunday, Extravagance Monday.
1:21.2	This is the day that the woman who took the aromatic nard, right, the ointment, and crapped
1:26.8	up in that flask and poured it all out on the Lord, just kind of an abundance, an abundance of gifts
1:33.1	to the Lord who gives us an abundance of grace. So Commitment Saturday, Procession Sunday,
1:39.7	Extravagance Monday. Compulsion to completion is Tuesday. Here's Jesus who's kind of in the midst
1:45.9	of this time in Jerusalem. And he's there's a fire in him that is he and he's impelled. He must
1:53.3	continue to do the Father's will. He's committed to this. He's following through with this. He has
1:57.7	compulsion to completion. Wednesday is what's called the day of aloneness. This is one of the ones
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