HOLY TRINITY PARISHHudson and Germantown, New York429 E. Allen St. – P. O. Box 323 Hudson, NY 12534

March 25, 2018

PHONE: (518) 828 - 1334 WEBSITE: www.holytrinityhudson.org E-MAIL: holytrinityhudson@gmail.com

REV. ANTHONY BARRATTPastor

DEACON RICHARD WASHBURNDeacon

REV. WINSTON BATHPastor Emeritus

THE “HOLY DRAMA” OF HOLY WEEK BEGINS(2018)…

This weekend we once again celebrate Palm

Sunday, or, to give it the official title “Palm Sunday of

the Passion of the Lord.” It is hard to believe that the

season of Lent is coming to a close for another year.

How has this Lent been for you….? I do hope that you

and your family or friends have experienced some

spiritual renewal and refreshment. I hope and pray too

that the journey of Lent has given you many opportuni-

ties to reflect on your relationship with the Lord, to

seek healing and forgiveness from God where this is

needed and to make that extra time and effort to let

God’s grace and love work in you.

However Lent has been for us, we now change

gear somewhat and focus our attention on “Holy

Week.” Jesus invites us, once again, to journey with

him as He enters Jerusalem to suffer, to die and to rise

from the dead. It is an intense and moving week. In

fact, many of our liturgies this week are unusual and

very dramatic. This is quite deliberate and very impor-

tant! I would like to make a warm and heartfelt invita-

tion to you and your family and friends to come to as

many of the events and liturgies during Holy Week as

you can. Please do consider inviting family, friends or

neighbors who perhaps have not been to church in

some time to come with you.

The Church urges us to enter into all these

events in our Lord’s life, death and resurrection and so

to be part of the unfolding drama. That is why we par-

ticipate in the Masses and liturgies of Holy Week in a

special and more dramatic way than usual: carrying

palms, being the “crowd” in the reading of the Gospel,

venerating the cross or processing with candles. We

are not passive onlookers or spectators on Palm Sun-

day, or at the Last Supper (Holy Thursday), or as we

relive Jesus’ passion on Good Friday or as we rejoice

at the empty tomb on Easter Sunday. We are to be

drawn into these life-changing (and world-changing)

events. The introduction at the beginning of Mass to-

day puts it so well:

Dear brothers and sisters, since the begin-

ning of Lent until now, we have prepared

our hearts by penance and charitable

works. Today we gather to herald with the

whole Church, the beginning of the cele-

bration of the Lord’s Paschal Mystery, that

is to say, of His Passion and Resurrection.

For it was to accomplish this mystery that

He entered His own city of Jerusalem.

Therefore, with all faith and devotion, let

us commemorate the Lord’s entry into the

city for our salvation, following in His

footsteps, so that, being made by His grace

partakers of the Cross, we may have a

share also in His resurrection and in His

life.

Finally, we can remember that we do all this as

individuals, of course, but also very much as a commu-

nity of faith. This is especially true as we celebrate

with our catechumens and candidates who are to be

fully initiated into the Church at the Easter Vigil. There

are well over 100 of them just in our own Diocese of

Albany! As they receive the sacraments, it can be a

great time for us to renew our appreciation of our Bap-

tism, or of the Eucharist, or indeed of all the gifts that

God gives to us. So, may you have a truly wonderful

and holy Holy Week!

Father Anthony

Holy week

Schedule

SUNDAY, March 25

Passion (Palm) Sunday: Each Mass thisweekend begins with the blessing ofPalms.

During the Mass the narrative of thePassion will be proclaimed. Anyone whofinds standing throughout the entire nar-rative too uncomfortable, should feel freeto be seated whenever they have a need.

CONFESSIONS - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.Resurrection Church

HOT OFF THE GRIDDLE

We look forward to seeing you at ourannual Palm Sunday Pancake and Sausage Breakfast to-day at the Academy 8:30 a.m. to 11:30.

Menu includes pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, hash pota-toes, rolls, coffee cakes, juice, and coffee. Adults: $10.00Children: $5:00 Family, 2 adults – 2 children: $25.00. If youhaven't been down to the breakfast for a while, give us atry this year.

AN EASTER ADVENTURE

Bring the kids, bring the grandkids, bring the niecesand nephews! On Palm Sunday Holy Trinity will behosting an Easter Egg Hunt, crafts, and games at St.Mary’s Academy for children through the FifthGrade. The festivities begin at 1:00 p.m. Comealong and join the fun.

Holy Thursday Covered Dish Supper

Call the rectory in Hudson at 518-828-1334 and tellus what you will be bringing and how many will becoming with you.

MONDAY, March 26 A Lenten Retreat - 6:00 p.m. Hudson

TUESDAY, March 27 St. Anthony Novena Prayer - following morn-

ing Mass

A Lenten Retreat - 6:00 p.m. Hudson

WEDNESDAY, March 28 A Lenten Retreat - 6:00 p.m. Hudson

Holy ThursdayMarch 29

Office Closed

Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 5:30 p.m. St.Mary’s Church, Hudson

Holy Thursday Covered Dish Supper - St.Mary’s Academy following 5:30 p.m. Mass

Eucharistic Adoration - from the close of theLiturgy until midnight.

Special Holy Thursday Collection

On Holy Thursday, when we remember Jesus’institution of the Mass, we take up a special collectionto purchase wafers and wine for the coming year.Your generous response to this collection will be agreat help to our parish.

GOODFRIDAY

March 30

Office Closed

Solemn Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord -3:00 p.m. - Hudson

HOLY SATURDAY - March 31 Blessing of Easter Baskets - 12:00 p.m. - Hud-

son

Confessions - 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. - Hudson

EASTER!

EASTER VIGIL MASS (First Mass of Easter)

Easter Vigil Mass - 7:30 p.m. - Hudson

EASTER SUNDAY - April 1

Easter Sunday Masses:6:30 a.m. - Resurrection Church, German-

town9:00 a.m. - St. Mary’s Church, Hudson11:00 a.m. - St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

Need your Rosary repaired?

A parishioner has decided for her Lenten ob-servance to repair broken Rosaries. If you have a Ro-sary that is damaged in any way, we invite you toplace it in the collection basket during Lent. Put yourRosary in an envelope with your name, address, andtelephone number on it.

HOLY THURSDAY COVEREDDISH

Following the 5:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord's Supperon Holy Thursday, March 29th, we will have a covereddish supper at the Academy. Plan to prepare your fa-vorite dish and join us. In order to know how manyplaces we need to set up, please call the rectory in Hud-son at 518-828-1334 and tell us what you will be bring-ing and how many will be in your party.

The Christian Service Committee will be provid-ing desserts, rolls, and beverages. These are some ofthe items needed from parishioners: hot casseroles,cold cuts, pizza, wings, salads, baked beans, and dev-iled eggs. (The Christian Service Committee can keepcasseroles and similar items warm, but they are not

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PRAY THE ROSARY

Praying the Sunday Rosaryfor Perpetual Adoration will

not take place on Palm Sunday or EasterSunday and will resume on April 8 at 1:30p.m. at St. Mary’s Church - Hudson

The receptacles for your Operation Rice Bowlcontributions are now in the Church vestibules.Your gifts should be placed in them during theLenten season.

ST. ANTHONY NOVENA PRAYER

The annual thirteen Saint Anthony Novenas willbegin Tuesday, March 20th. The Novena prayer willbe prayed after the Tuesday morning masses. Therewill be no evening Novena prayer services. Novenaprayer booklets will be available in the Sacristy forthose who would like to pray the Novena at home.

Sacrificial Giving

HUDSON

Regular Offertory Weekend (Mar. 18)……..…......... $6,227.00

Heat and Fuel…………………………………….. 595.00Easter Flowers………………………………………751.00Seminarian Support…………………………………. 567.00

GERMANTOWN

Regular Offertory Weekend (Mar. 18)……...……… $1,334.00Seminarian Support………………………………… 10.00

EUCHARISTIC MOMENT Sunday, March 25th

“Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with expositionneeds a great push. People ask me: 'What will con-vert America and save the world?' My answer isprayer. What we need is for every parish to comebefore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hoursof prayer.” St. Mother Theresa

Would you commit an hour of adoration for the sick?

The Sacred Paschal Triduum:Three Days, One Great Liturgy

Today we celebratePassion Sunday, other-wise known as Palm Sun-day. This is the officialbeginning of Holy Week.The central event of HolyWeek is the celebration ofThe Sacred Paschal Trid-uum. The Paschal trid-

uum is the heart of the entire Christian year. TheTriduum is made up of three most sacred days: fromsundown Holy Thursday to sundown Good Friday(the first day) from sundown Good Friday to sundownHoly Saturday (the second day) from sundown HolySaturday to sundown Easter Sunday (the third day).The Triduum, or the “Three Days” is the celebrationof the Christian Passover. The most ancient designa-tion for the days on which the church observed the"crucified, buried, and risen Lord" was the "SacredTriduum" (St. Augustine).

The Easter Triduum is really one celebrationspread over three days. Each day of the Triduum cele-brates the entire mystery of Christ's passion, death andresurrection (Paschal Mystery) while at the same timehaving its own particular focus. The Holy Thursdayfocus is the Lord's Supper on the night before he died.Good Friday is the remembrance of the Passion anddeath of Jesus. Holy Saturday is the vigil at which wehear the good news that Jesus has risen from thegrave.

Holy Thursday: The Celebration ofthe Supper of the Lord

The entrance antiphon forHoly Thursday sets the tone forthe entire Triduum celebration:"We should glory in the cross ofour Lord Jesus Christ, for he isour salvation, our life and ourresurrection; through him we aresaved and set free" (Gal 6:14).This antiphon has been replacedby hymns expressing similar sen-

timents. The entrance song of Holy Thursday is theonly entrance song for the entire three days (there is noentrance song on Good Friday nor at the Easter Vigil).

The focus on Holy Thursday is the Last Supper.Jesus transformed the Jewish Passover meal into amemorial of his death and resurrection. He becamethe new Passover, the Way to new life in the kingdomof God. When we celebrate this covenant meal webind ourselves to Jesus as we follow him to death andresurrection. With Jesus, we surrender our own livesfor the sake of the world. The washing of feet on HolyThursday is a stark reminder that those who eat anddrink at the Eucharistic table must be ready to washthe feet in service to others. Jesus gave us the com-mand to do what he did. That means do everythingJesus did — love others, wash their feet, feed andcloth them, forgive them — everything. "As Christ, somust I do!"

The liturgy on Holy Thursday does not end with adismissal or a final blessing. After the solemn proces-sion of the Eucharist, and the altar and sanctuary arestripped in preparation for the liturgy of Good Fridaythe assembly leaves in silence. It is customary thatpeople remain or return for adoration and prayer lateinto the evening as they "stay and watch with me."

Good Friday: The Celebration of thePassion of the Lord

The second major ritual step on theTriduum journey is the liturgy onGood Friday. It has three distinctparts: (1) the Liturgy of the Word.(2) the Veneration of the Cross and(3) Holy Communion. The GoodFriday liturgy is not a Mass be-cause there is no Eucharistic

Prayer. The intercessions used on Good Friday are anexample of one of the oldest elements in the liturgy.

Although the liturgy on Good Friday focuses on thedeath of Jesus, it is not isolated from the fullness of thePaschal mystery. For us, Good Friday is not a time ofmourning but, rather, of remembering the boundlesslove of God expressed in the sacrifice of Jesus on thecross. In the reading of the Passion according to John,Christ's victory over death shines through every step ofthe way. Death for Jesus was the passage into hisglory. As we remember Jesus' death, we live our owndying to selfishness and sin and our passage into newlife.

The Good Friday liturgy begins in complete silence.There is no music or call to worship. This stark begin-

ning reflects the nature of the Triduum as being oneextended celebration. The celebrant lies prostrate onthe floor before the bare altar and the assembly kneelsin humble recognition of the awesome mystery ofGod's love. After the proclamation of scripture and theextended prayers of the faithful the assembly is invitedto venerate the wood of the cross and to receive holyCommunion.

Again, there is no dismissal at the Good Friday lit-urgy. The liturgy, which began in silence also ends insilence as we await the Vigil.

Easter Vigil: The Celebration of theResurrection of the Lord

The liturgy of the Easter Vigilhas four parts with powerful textsand symbols:

1) The Service of Light—fire,light, darkness, alpha, omega, pro-cession, incense, and proclama-tion of the great prayer of praiseand thanksgiving called theExsultet.

2) The Liturgy of the Word—creation, test of Abra‑ ham, deliverance, flight, freedom, covenant, promisedland, new hearts, thirst, water, giving Glory to God,new life in baptism and the Gospel of the Resurrec-tion.

3) The Rites of Initiation—calling of candidates. lit-any of saints, procession to font, blessing of the water,renunciation of sin, profession of faith, baptism, cloth-ing with baptismal garments, giving of lighted candles,Sacred Chrism, confirmation, renewal of baptismalpromises by all the faithful, and sprinkling with theblessed water.

4) The Liturgy of the Eucharist—bread, wine, theBody and Blood of Christ, a sacred meal with friends.

"The Easter Triduum is at the heart and soul of ourChristian faith, commemorating the triumph of God'slove over darkness and death. It is the fullest ritual ex-pression of what it means to be a Christian. In our re-living and remembering these events, we are renewedand reborn along with the newly initiated members ofour community." (The Easier Triduum by Dan Schutte published Oregon Catholic Press.)

Please come and celebrate theSacred Triduum with our parish family.

(adapted from One Great Liturgy published by the Diocese of Crookston, Office of Worship)

Holy WeekThe Schedule of the Sacred Triduum

PALM SUNDAYOF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

Saturday, March 244:00 p.m. MASS, St. Mary’s, Hudson

5:30 p.m. MASS, Resurrection, Germantown

Sunday, March 259:00 a.m. MASS, St. Mary’s, Hudson

11:00 a.m. MASS, Resurrection, Germantown

PALM SUNDAY BREAKFAST8:30 a.m.— 11:30 a.m.St. Mary’s Academy

301 Allen St., Hudson

HOLY THURSDAY, March 29

MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

EUCHARISTIC ADORATIONFrom the close of Mass until midnight

St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

COVERED DISH SUPPERImmediately following Mass

St. Mary’s Academy,301 Allen St., Hudson

GOOD FRIDAY, March 30

THE PASSION OF THE LORD3:00 p.m., St. Mary’s, Hudson

HOLY SATURDAY, March 31

BLESSING OF EASTER BASKETS12:00 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

CONFESSIONS2:00 - 3:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

EASTER MASSES

SOLEMN EASTER VIGIL, Saturday, March 317:30 p.m., St. Mary’s, Hudson

Easter Sunday, April 1

6:30 a.m. MASS, Resurrection, Germantown9:00 a.m. MASS, St. Mary’s, Hudson11:00 a.m. MASS, St. Mary’s, Hudson

11:00 a.m. MASS, Resurrection, Germantown

Readings for the Week of March 25

Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16/Is 50:4-7/Ps 22:8-9, 17-18,19-20, 23-24 [2a]/Phil 2:6-

11/Mk 14:1--15:47 or 15:1-39Monday: Is 42:1-7/Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14 [1a]/Jn 12:1-11Tuesday: Is 49:1-6/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17[cf. 15ab]

/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a/Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34 [14c]

/Mt 26:14-25Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper: Ex 12:1-8,11-14

/Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 [cf. 1Cor 10:16]

/1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15Friday: Is 52:13--53:12/Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25

[Lk 23:46]/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1--19:42Saturday: Vigil: Gn 1:1--2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-

14, 24, 35 [30] or Ps 33:4-5,6-7, 12-13, 20-22 [5b]

/Gn 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Ps 16:5, 8, 9- 10, 11 [1]/Ex14:15--15:1/Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18 [1b]

/Is 54:5-14/Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13[2a]/Is 55:1-11

/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/Bar 3:9-15, 32--4:4/Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 [Jn 6:68c]/Ez36:16-17a, 18-28/Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4

[42:2] or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 [3] or Ps 51:12-13, 14-15,18-19 [12a]/Rom 6:3-11/Ps 118:1-2,

READINGS AND HYMNS (HUDSON)Reading: p. 117 Opening Hymn: # 82 (pg. 119)

Closing: # 311

MASSES FOR THIS WEEKMONDAY: Weekday (March 26)

7:15 AM Helen Halloran - Family

June Duryea - Mick & Mary Ann Gregory

Lydia Grima - Family

TUESDAY: Weekday (March 27)

7:15 AM Glenn Fish - Donna & Jake Hoffman

Paul Donahue - Barbara Othote

Howie Montague - Family

WEDNESDAY: Weekday (March 28)

7:15 AM Robert Shumsky - Buddy & Rosa Pfeil

Richard & Michael Erickson - Elaine Erickson

HOLY THURSDAY (Hudson)

(March 29)

5:30 PM Mass of the Lord’s SupperLouis J. Conte - Mr. & Mrs. Robert Donahue

Andrew Bivana - St. Mary’s Choir

Selma Van Ness - St. Mary’s Choir

GOOD FRIDAY (Hudson)

(March 30)

3:00 PM Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion

EASTERTHE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD

SATURDAY EASTER VIGIL MASS: (Hudson) (March 31)

7:30 PM Louis Conte - Jim Skoda

Constance Anuska - Family

Rose Leach & Walter Leach, Jr. - Deborah Leach &Susan Curran

EASTER SUNDAY MORNING MASS: (April 1)

St. Mary’s Church, Hudson

9:00 AM Louis Conte - John, Joan & Joey ConteCooney & Dooley Families - Jane & Roger DooleyJulia Miller - Carolyn Chernick

11:00 AM Rosemary Maichin - C.D.A. Court Col. #248

Resurrection Church, Germantown

6:30 AM Living and Deceased of the Parish11:00 AM Rosemary Maichin - The Walker Family

Good Friday Holy Land AppealPope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifi-

cal Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in theHoly Land.

Through the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you standin solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land as a witnessof peace, supporting Catholics there in parishes and schools,maintaining Christian shrines and caring for refugees in theHoly Land.

Please help by giving to the Holy LandCollection on Good Friday.