HOLY WEEK

 

Holy Week

Is the last week of Lent

Which precedes Easter

Starting on Lazarus Saturday

It includes Palm Sunday

Maundy Thursday

And Good Friday

And ends on Holy Saturday

HOLY MONDAY

 

Holy Monday is

The Third day of holy week

Is notable for several reason

We are told in The Gospels

That amongst other things

The cursing of the fig tree

The questioning of Jesus' authority

And the Cleansing of the Temple 

All took place on Holy Monday

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

 

With the Roman Rite

Of Palm Sunday

Or Passion Sunday

Holy Week begins

Marking the humble entrance

Of the Messiah

Into Jerusalem on a donkey,

So he could accomplish

His paschal mystery,

But Palm Sunday

Also marks with the

Blessing of palm leaves

The beginning

Of his journey to the cross

LAZARUS SATURDAY

 

Lazarus Saturday

Is the day preceding

Palm Sunday

Which celebrates the raising

Of Lazarus of Bethany

A day of joy and triumph

Which begins Holy Week

WHERE THE CROWNS OF ANGELS GLOW

 

If I am the first of us to go

I will wait for you in the place

Where the crowns of Angels glow

 

If I go first because I lost the fight

I will be waiting with the Father

Where souls emerge into the light

 

If I am the first of us to go there

I will await you in lush meadows

Where sweet perfume fills the air

 

If I go first and leave your company

We will meet again in paradise

And be together for all eternity

 

If I am the first to go, allay your fears

I will be waiting in the place

Where God has banished tears

 

If I go before you and we must part

I will wait for you in heaven

Where sweet music soothes the heart

 

If I am first to go, we will meet again

In a far better place than this

Where God has banished pain

 

If I go first through the eternal door

You will find me with the angels

Where suffering is no more

 

If I am first to go by days or years

You will find me waiting there

Far beyond this vale of tears

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINT DAVID

 

The feast day of Saint David

Is Wales’s National Day

When the Welsh people

Celebrate Saint David's Day

SAINT DAVID

 

Saint David was born in the 5th century

A scion of the royal house of Ceredigion,

And founded a Celtic Monastic order,

At Glyn Rhosyn, the Vale of Roses,

Which became an important Christian shrine

Where St David's Cathedral stands today