Praying Through Holy Week

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 video follows Jesus through all of his experiences-from suffering to celebration-in this the holiest week of the year.
For more on prayer, check out Oremus: A Guide to Catholic prayer, at bit.ly/1YdBZm5.
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[@alicevill2259]

For the first time it hit me today morning Saturday. My spirit said to me it is not a celebration palm Sunday but Jesus walking volunteering to be sacrificed. Then I remember how the same people that received him with palms crucified him. And so I realized I have to walk with Jesus this day as a support to him. The Holy Spirit guides us 🥰

[@augustinemackey2869]

Days of the week: - Commitment Saturday - Procession Sunday - Extravagance Monday - Compulsion to completion Tuesday - The day of aloneness Wednesday - The body given Thursday - Impotence, there is no law Friday - Night Saturday - Miracles Sunday

[@billyrussell7789]

Days of the week: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

[@autumnn.215]

Thanks

[@allenshapi2170]

Bless you!

[@lisaoreilly5406]

Thank you!

[@Amccordford]

I love the joy that shines thru your smile and your face. I love your enthusiasm.

[@EMC726]

Thank you Fr. Mike, I learn something every time I hear you. I’m really trying to learn and teach my family about our Holy Week. 🙏

[@meinardac4011]

Father Mike God may bless you, so beautiful video about the Holy Week, soooo beautiful our Catholic Church we are looking forward for all the events that are going to be happening.

[@jmeyer3rn]

Father Mike, you make me feel as if I am your friend. Thank you for the blessings you give. This is a very powerful video on Holy Week. And yes, since I reverted in 2008, I understand my faith much more clearly than when I was a child. God bless you and the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.

[@angel_godislovegarcia7573]

All glory to God, Jesus is Lord, God is love, may God, our loving lady of Guadalupe and all the Saints and Angels bless all of you

[@treluvstrees999]

Thank you!! May our Holy Week be blessed by deep reflection and time with our beautiful Passover Lamb!

[@LisaGemini]

The Day of Aloneness! The Last Supper on Holy Thursday...amazing! Thank you, Father, for explaining all of this so well. God bless you this Easter.

[@profeh3346]

Thank you Lord for the blessing of Father Mike. ❤

[@FreedomLandInvestorsInc.]

Throw back!!! Thank you for this. God bless! My parish had a beautiful mass last night. I felt it in my soul.

[@walteraymerich176]

You are awesome, Fr. Mike. Never stop fighting the good fight. God bless you! 🙌 🙏

[@wunderlichjon]

you gotta be one the coolest Priests... straight up. God Bless you Father.

[@naomiwelch6715]

Thank you, Fr. Mike! I have shown my middle school students a few of your Catechism and Bible videos, and they have been asking to see you and hear you. I just love this! I will share this video about Holy Week with them. God bless, you.

[@debbie4503]

I know my Prayer life has gotten so much better. I try to remember to Praise our Lord first, then I pray for people who need healing, whatever kind of healing that may be. I have started saying "Let Your Will Be Done". Because God knows so much more than I ever will. It's comforting to ask that His Will Be Done.

[@chicao8784]

Thank you Fr Mike, you're incredibly awesome. May God bless you and all your prayers.

[@taosblue5120]

Father Mike, thank you so much for all of your beautiful and wonderful work. This message is so very special and heart wrenching at the same time. You're so relatable and genuine and I am very grateful. Happy Easter. ❤️

[@destinixshakur]

It is fr

[@fabiking3338]

🙏

[@kristeandreatujague7016]

Amen and amen. ❤

[@sherryland3739]

My church linked to this video! So good! Will never get old, timeless good info. God bless, thank you!🙏

[@BryanWatson1]

We love you in Memphis! Thank you for your yes. Hope to see you here sooner than later.

[@ca147]

This has really helped me understand Jesus' journey during Holy Week. I was looking for an explanation of what happened to Jesus after Palm Sunday but before Holy Thursday. This has helped greatly. If anybody knows a more detailed account, please let me know! Thank you!!

[@mariastephens8643]

This is so gorgeous. I wish I had remembered​ to watch this video this Holy Week. It is now Easter Sunday for me.

[@nidzacrespo9533]

Thank you 🙏🏻 Father Mike God bless you always, wonderful reflection like always 🙏🏻☦️

[@shahrozesarfraz4930]

Thank you Father

[@sharongrant3946]

What a powerful way to experience Holy Week. Thank you for sharing this manner of reorienting our thoughts and actions during this holy time in the Christian calendar.

[@rosiemchugh4188]

Thank you Father Mike you're an Inspiration 🙏🙏🙏

[@michaelremillard4215]

Fr.Mike .... I’am so grateful that my God through his Begotten Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit came to fulfill the law and retrieve us from the jaws of death where we were placed by the snares of Satan through our freedom of choice .God through the Holy Trinity sacrificed himself through Jesus who became the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world “ and redeemed us ALL so we may not parish but have life eternal with him in Heaven. Glory be to God in the Highest and Praise be Jesus Christ endeared be the Holy Spirit Blessed be our Mary our Mother and Blessed be our Beloved S.Joseph her Holy Spouse FOREVER

[@jesusenvosconfio4474]

Thank you Father!

[@LOVEismyflow]

This is so so beautiful. Thank you Father ♥️God bless you too

[@kentkoehler4460]

Can you imagine what was going through his head wow I so love him thank you

[@MR-dl4fv]

Awesome 👏 I was looking for this to really go in depth during this Holy Week

[@catholicism31]

Saturday (Commitment) Sunday (Procession) Monday (extravagant) Tuesday (Compulsion to completion) Wednesday of aloneness Thursday (body given) Friday (impotence- no law) Saturday (night) Sunday (miracles)

[@patriciamcilhone3437]

God bless you Father

[@annh3599]

Thank you Father Mike

[@theresemartin3075]

Thank you Fr. Mike for sharing this! Will help to make this Holy Week a more deeper experience!

[@jj4christ]

Miss praying Holy Week with FSE. Yep. Very powerful! Life Changing.

[@monicapamei2255]

Thank you father 🙏🙏

[@Painter931]

Thank you Fr. Mike

[@alymay0303]

this is beautiful thank you Fr. Mike

[@KreatywnaPyza]

Thank you Fr Mike. Greetings from Poland.

[@angelabrosius2559]

Wrapped up so simply as an important reminder

[@jugeemortel]

Thank you for this, Fr. Mike!

[@gailkirk4024]

I was going to ask him to slow down too. Hard to keep up. Thank you Father.❤

[@camjones3930]

thank you father

[@eselga8]

Thank You so Much! God Bless You/Your Day!

[@conniemcfeely4115]

Thanks Father Mike 😇😇😇

[@nguyenjohn668]

Have a nice Holy Week everyone!

[@pattiebrielle9368]

Very powerful way to describe the holy week father. Thank you very much.it really helps me alot

[@vatoloco8541]

THANK YOU FATHER

[@clarafierro6921]

Amen .God bless you too, excellent explanation Father Mike

[@LoveLove-bh8rm]

God Bless you all 🙏🏻🙏🏻 🙏🏻

[@floreflorentina8053]

Thank you Fr for sharing. I am always learning. God bless you.😇😇

[@biancacirillo1864]

Thank you Fr. Mike!!! Sharing this.. wish I would have seen it last week! Happy Easter! May the Lord continue to bless you!

[@bearinggoodgifts5025]

Thanks Father Mike

[@bearinggoodgifts5025]

Thanks Father

[@vincewyn1396]

During his solitary confinement he prayed: "I am happy here, in this cell, where white mushrooms are growing on my sleeping mat, because You are here with me, because You want me to live here with You. I have spoken much in my lifetime: now I speak no more. It's Your turn to speak to me, Jesus; I am listening to You". Ps 18:2-3a, In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice. Cardinal Francis-Xavier Thuan V Nguyen 🙏🏻4us

[@mosin9105]

Thanks

[@rachelroeber7159]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!

[@tommasyao2546]

Thank you Father Mike :)

[@haybelportal9475]

God bless you Father Mike. This is such a beautiful and helpful KZbin channel. It would definitely be nice to ask questions and occasionally get a reply/response. Thank you for the work, time and effort you put into your videos.

[@juleske5708]

Beautifully said ... So true...great insights..Thank You 🙏💒🌷GOD Bless...

[@kathybenson5373]

Wow how true and concise and accurate.

[@RobynG70]

This was awesome Fr Mike. Thank you!!! Have a blessed Holy Week!

[@canadathailand1316]

Always love your videos, thank you for sharing!

[@dianeratzburg4330]

Amen❤

[@berrell51]

Just a reminder, Father Mike: Batman v Superman is only a few days left! I hope you watch it since you are amazed by those two characters in your previous video.. Hahaha God bless! :)

[@nigelpascua287]

Wow amazing

[@sandragrace4613]

Thank you do much! Will do next year.

[@charitoampoyo4365]

Brilliantly delivered.

[@lunasol1244]

please pray for my Family one son has Cancer Dr say theirs no cure

[@mariastephens8643]

Luna Sol If you don't mind, what is the update by now?

[@vanessarivera281]

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[@indianajosephine4881]

+Luna Sol I'm sorry to hear this. I just wanted to say that I believe cancer can be cured, in fact I believe there's no disease that cannot. This isn't really widely known I don't think but sicknesses are able to come and fester when the body is too acidic. Our body has a natural ph of 7. 365 (something like that) but most of us these days without knowing are in the acidic range because of all the processed foods, toxins etc that are practically everywhere. There are places to go for more information of this which I will give an example of but what needs to happen is you need to reverse the acidity to get to the neutral alkaline level of 7. You can check up Dr Leonard Coldwell, or type this stuff up into youtube, google etc. The medicine industry don't make money from this because it's natural that's why it's not commonly known that's what I believe. I pray he is better, GOD be with you all...

[@cathybeaudoin8190]

I prayed for you and your family🙏

[@imommtube]

Priceless

[@ThomasBrand]

#ASKFRMIKE , Thank you Fr Mike. I am an usher at a Catholic Church and about 1/5th of the congregation leave after The Eucharist Communion Service. They just walk from the line back to the exit and leave. As an usher I've asked a few people why and they say they want to beat the traffic in parking lot to leave Church. As an usher I stay at least a few minutes after each Mass to clean up and I tell them that also then there is no traffic out, and maybe they would like to talk with others for a few minutes after mass instead of leaving early. I don't say they miss the final blessing of Mass but I want to bring them back for it as I know it helps me. I would be curious on any comments you have. Thank you for your time making sharing the videos. They have helped me and helped me help others.

[@kimfleury]

I don't understand the concept of "beating traffic," because it's not like a few minutes makes any real difference. What people should be doing is staying a few minutes after Mass to give thanks to God and compose themselves for the week ahead, especially if they aren't able to attend Daily Mass. I don't like people staying in the church to talk after Mass. When I was growing up, nobody was allowed to have a conversation in the nave. If someone wanted to talk to the priest, it was out in the narthex. This allowed people to pray in silence. Nobody cares to be courteous any more. As soon as Mass is over, there's an uproar in the nave, loud conversation and laughter. At my parish, they're old hippies, mostly, and hard of hearing now, so they're louder than ever. I've mentioned to them the joy of being before the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle, especially since my work has sometimes made it impossible to step foot on land for as much as a month at a time, and they flippantly answer, "Oh well. Jesus is everywhere." I had that attitude, too, until I was deprived of His presence in the Eucharist, but I never would have dismissed anyone's feelings - in fact, I always left the nave to have conversations, to allow others to pray in their own way in silence. I much prefer the practice at the parishes that have attached social halls, where the priest invites people to stay for conversation with treats. Admittedly, the parish church I attend most often doesn't have that separate space, and the narthex is small, and in winter nobody wants to talk outside. Even so, I wish they would talk more quietly off in the transept, at least.

[@joanfox6679]

I too see people leave early and so I pray for them..they are missing out on one of the many gifts of the mass. The final blessing is truely a gift. God's gift.

[@wms72]

The 15 minutes after Holy Communion are the holiest moments of life, in which the soul is closest to God. Jesus has told saints He is grieved when people receive Him in Holy Communion and then act like nothing has happened. Why don't priests correct this thoughtless attitude so prevalent among the laity???

[@cloudypuff98]

I admit, I am one of the patrons that leave after communion but what I do is walk to the rear and kneel in prayer and afterward give my offerings to the poor as well as offerings as I take holy water to bless my family and home. There may be many different reasons people leave after taking the Eucharist. I believe it is not ones place to judge or focus on what someone else is doing. Your relationship with the Creator is your own and that is the most important thing that matters. The rest will work itself out. Remember, judge not lest ye be judged. Peace and many blessings to you.

[@karenhatch1274]

@@cloudypuff98 Thank you! I am in the church choir so I do not leave early but I believe as you do. Judge not lest ye be judged. We do not know what is in another person's heart. I pray for those who stay and for those that have to leave early and for the ones that were not able to come to Mass.

[@Jogutz26]

This is amazing! Thank you!

[@SoulfulRose]

Wow 🙏🏿

[@lisandroCT]

No law doesn't mean that there's no right and no wrong. When love dictates one's life, there's no law. Jesus was above all law and we're called to that too.

[@chrisenglund1185]

Hi Lisandro, I'm not quite sure I understand your comment completely, I think that Love is the law. Matthew 5:17-20 English Standard Version (ESV) Christ Came to Fulfill the Law 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

[@kaga0]

This was sent to my google classroom...

[@annacatagnus4819]

Same

[@jbcall4]

Wrote each one on family calendar.

[@taramilne9465]

This is a very cool way of praying.

[@jamesjosephkeating4th569]

Wuz up Doc . I kind do this all the time all day everyday doc

[@mistyviolet3825]

🕯LENT 2022💔💔🇺🇸🌍 💔💔

[@tyliful]

great point.

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

Alleluia.

[@tomandkellymitchell7964]

I love your videos.

[@judyboeding5159]

Beautiful 💕

[@mrrehanfernando]

Awesome video Fr. Mike...

[@CariBaez]

He is very wise. to bad no one ever replies to us.

[@p4r5nip86]

+Faith No one may respond, but they are open to questions if you put the hash tag (#) ask Fr. Mike. (was it that I can't remember.)

[@CariBaez]

How? #Askfathermike _like this?_

[@wanda6483]

+Faith #askfrmike

[@CariBaez]

How would they know?

[@fathermikeschmitz4355]

+Faith No one replies? I'm sorry!

[@plattyplatt]

Very informative. Nice one Father!

[@chupapya1447]

So good 😍

[@leeowwh]

#askfrmike How to love God? How to be consoled by His consolations(coz many a times, lack of faith and impatience becomes a barrier for this). How to grow spiritually into a holy person, without ending up like a pharisee or like the Jewish authorities at the time of Christ.. How to not become like the elder brother of the prodigal son?

[@charliepollock3092]

Father mike , I'm 16 only recently I've started to explore my faith and relationship with god . How do I know if god wants me to be a priest . Thank you and god bless from Scotland.

[@cathybeaudoin8190]

Charlie pollock I prayed for you on this🙏. I'm not Fr. Mike, but to sit beside Jesus(visit Him) in the Tabernacle as a regular practice will not lead you wrong! You'll see only when you allow yourself this.

[@gracetibbetts6674]

#askfrmike What is your thought on vigil Masses? Why do we have them? It seems like just an easy way out. Jesus gave us Sunday for Mass, the only day required for Catholics to go to Mass, why do we have to extend it to Saturday night as well?

[@thereseo6008]

Grace Tibbetts Catholicism grew out of the Jewish faith where “days” were not midnight to midnight but sunset to sunset.

[@michellemigone7739]

#askfrmike Do they have a facebook where they post their reflections for each day? May you have a blessed Holy Week! :0)

[@LivingLambsVeganKitchen]

Hi, Michelle! Here you go: facebook.com/AscensionPress/

[@selinas_esta_aqui]

what is one thing that we can do , or add to our prayer life to partake in this way of looking at holy week?

[@p4r5nip86]

+Selina Farias If you want them to see it faster put the (#) ask Fr. Mike (I can't remember if that is right or not but he did say it at the end of the vid.

[@TheChio116]

You are so goofy!! I like you!! :D

[@thiennga2357]

Father, could you please speak a bit slower. You speak too fast and I hardly catch your words. Sorry father for asking this because English is not my first language 😢

[@StevenRMcEvoy]

If you click the video then the gear you can adjust playback speed.

[@marianaramirez6993]

#askfrmike father mike do you thing that it is ok for children and adults to watch tv and eat candy and stuff in holy week?

[@cmurphy2217]

#askfrmike What is the best way to deal with conflict about Catholicism within your family? It seems like it's really difficult to find a middle ground between being constantly on the defensive and just pretending that faith isn't important.

[@MiguelEnriqueCVeluz]

+C Murphy I know there was a guy who said that you have to keep in mind 6 things to deal with non-Catholic, or even anti-Catholic relatives! 1. Don't argue. You're merely gonna push them away. 2. Display your joy. When they ask why you are always so bright and happy, you say, "I'm Catholic!" 3. Pray for them. In John 21, Peter pulled out 153 fish from the right side of the boat. Also note that on Jesus' right side, there sits Mary, and her net has 153 Hail Maries (which is the rosary!). Pray a rosary for your relatives. 4. Pray that God will send someone into their lives to convert them, because essentially, it is not our job, but the Holy Spirit's to convert men. 5. Know your faith, and how to defend your faith. 6. Love them. Nothing speaks greater than love, because God is love, and God is great. Peace! #askfrmike, What can you suggest?

[@cressacarmel3320]

Haha..First "Last Supper!'

[@marcoferreira0223]

#askfrmike First of all, I'd like to thank Fr Mike and Ascension Presents for the wonderfully helpful videos you guys make, they have helped me and so many others so much and are deeply appreciated! Thank you for this video! I would like to ask Fr. Mike as a gay Catholic or rather as a Catholic experiencing same-sex attraction, what are the do's and don't's if I want to live a holy Catholic life and still be at peace with my sexuality? Could you be specific like what about kissing and cuddling and holding hands? I know everything sexual is strictly prohibited, it's the areas of grey that I would like clarification please. I've tried to find and watch your videos concerning homosexuality and the Church and each of them I find so helpful. But I think a lot of us are still plagued with these doubts if we wish to remain good practicing Catholics and still have healthy homosexual relationships, if that's possible, what are we allowed to do or should be doing? Thank you so much and God bless!

[@AileenSerrantes-sv4oj]

Will you stop showing everywhere? Thank you.

[@joedan.]

Hoi