Holy Saturday (from the Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum) is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy week, in which Christians prepare for Easter. This day commemorates the day that Jesus Christ’s body laid in the tomb.

Jesus is alone in the tomb.

This is a great video of a monk explaining the Easter Triduum.

Tonight is the night of The Easter Vigil. It is the biggest Mass of the Year! Every year we celebrate our faith and renew ourselves at this Mass. This year we will have to do it at home.

Our Archbishop’s Easter Message

Check out Mass at various places

https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parishes-with-live-streams

Today, our Lord dies on the Cross.

Have a look back through our stations of the cross.

Try to find a Good Friday mass to watch…. Have a look here…..

https://www.churchservices.tv/timetable/

Watch the Crucifixion here:

One Life Music – A beautiful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJMRIpZPVw

One that we love to sing together.

Take some time today.

Tonight, Jesus is alone in the garden of gethsemane. He is waiting for his fate. He is praying to his father. What he is praying? What is he thinking?

Today or tonight, take some time to prayer and I mean really pray. Pray for the safety of your families. Pray for health workers and their families. Pray for all key workers. Pray for the World.

Be grateful for what we have.

Today, is one of the holiest days of the year for the Catholic Faith which our school community belongs.

The Gospel acclamation for today sums up our faith.

I give you a new commandment:
love one another just as I have loved you, says the Lord.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.  The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table,[a] took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself.  Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”  Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.”  Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”  Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet,[b] but is entirely clean. And you[c] are clean, though not all of you.”  For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?  You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

Watch the second part of this video for the Last Supper.

As we reach the middle of Holy Week, let us think about the people in your little bubble.

Let us think about how much you love those people in your bubble. 

Jesus loves everybody in your bubble. Jesus loves every bubble in the world.

He is trying to protect every bubble. 

He will pop the bubbles at some point and we will come together as a family of God again.

Today our Gospel is from St. Matthew.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.  And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.

The Passover with the Disciples
On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’” So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve;[a]  and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?”  He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.  The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”  Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.

Poor old Judas betrays the Lord. He must have been very confused. He must have felt very insecure. He mustn’t have felt loved.

Remember you are loved by your family, You are loved by your teachers and you are loved by Jesus.