How to Watch: Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion from Saint Mary Cathedral April 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is Good Friday. Today the whole Church mourns the death of our Savior. This is traditionally a day of sadness, spent in fasting and prayer. The title for this day varies in different parts of
Isaiah 52:13–53:12Psalms 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 25Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9John 18:1–19:42 Isaiah 52:13–53:1213 Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. 14 As many were astonished at him — his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Days of Holy Week | Saturday | The Vigil of Easter | April 3 April 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is the Vigil of Easter. Tonight our churches will be cast into darkness only to be engulfed by the Light of Christ who is raised from the tomb and, in
Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14Psalms 116:12-13, 15-181 Corinthians 11:23-26John 13:1-15 Exodus 12:1-8, 11-141 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Days of Holy Week | Holy Thursday | April 1 April 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is Holy Thursday. It was on this day that Jesus Christ instituted both the Holy Eucharist and the sacred priesthood during the Last Supper. “Sisters and brothers, this Holy Thursday gathering is neither a
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Days of Holy Week | Good Friday | April 2 April 02, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is Good Friday. This is the day that Jesus Christ was put to death on a cross upon a hill just outside Jerusalem known as Calvary. “Sisters and brothers, as we gaze upon and reverence
How to Watch: Holy Thursday from Saint Mary Cathedral April 01, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is Holy Thursday. This morning, Bishop Earl Boyea will be joined by the priests of the Diocese of Lansing at Saint Mary Cathedral to celebrate the Chrism Mass. This Mass manifests the unity of the priests with their bishop.
Isaiah 50:4-9Psalms 69:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34Matthew 26:14-25 Isaiah 50:4-94 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 5 The Lord
Watch: Bishop Boyea’s Seven Days of Holy Week | Wednesday | March 31 March 31, 2021 Diocese of Lansing Today is Spy Wednesday! Today we recall that Christ was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, a clandestine spy among the disciples. Today we also find Jesus staying at Simon the Leper’s house in Bethany where a woman
Isaiah 49:1-6Psalms 71:1-6, 15, 17John 13:21-33, 36-38 Isaiah 49:1-61 Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. 2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me;