Lent and the Triduum are rich with meaning.

This cryptogram puzzle helps youth learn key terms like prayer, fasting, Passion, and Resurrection. They read clues, decode words, and connect them to Scripture. Great for classes, youth ministry, or family time. ✝️🧩🕊️

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Today is #HolySaturday It’s the day Jesus lay dead and buried. The day all creation holds its breath. The day between what was and what is promised. The day crucifixion and violence have won, and the day of hoped-for Resurrection is yet to come.

And in reality, this is where we live: In one long Holy Saturday between the already of yesterday and the not yet of the promise.

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I attended the funeral of my cousin's son today. He was 2.5 months old.

I am comforted by knowing that #Jesus also wept when he saw the distress of those he loved. And then he gave us all hope. #triduum #Easter #Bible

'Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled; and he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept.' John 11:32-35
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=4981728

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We are going to have very beautiful feast days in honor of our blessed martyrs of Compiègne on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

I will be able to attend them in a little tribune, for Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus granted my prayer three months ago by giving me the strength to take a few steps, which had been impossible for me.

That is a great consolation to me, for I can spend many hours in the dear little tribune, which has a grille opening on the sanctuary; I go to seek strength there, close to Him who has suffered so much because “he loved us exceedingly” [Eph 2:4], as the Apostle says.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Letter 324 to Germaine de Gemeaux (excerpt)
Around 10 October 1906

Biographer and editor Conrad de Meester, O.C.D. mentions that the Carmelites of Dijon celebrated the beatification of the Martyrs of Compiègne for three consecutive days: Saturday through Monday, 13 through 15 October 1906.

Mother Teresa of St. Augustine Lidoine and the Martyrs of Compiègne were beatified on 27 May 1906 by St. Pius X in St. Peter’s Basilica. Father de Meester notes that during this October triduum, Père Vallée, the prior of the Dominican friars at Dijon, preached at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on 13 and 14 October.

Then Bishop Dadolle of Dijon celebrated a pontifical Mass in the morning on Monday 15 October for the solemnity of St. Teresa of Avila; he also was the preacher for Benediction later in the day.

There was a window with a grille in the second-floor infirmary that permitted Elizabeth to look down on the sanctuary during the Mass and Benediction and to pray near the tabernacle whenever she desired (Cf. Photograph 191 on page 126 in Light, Love, Life: a look at a face and a heart).

Elizabeth attributes her ability to walk from her infirmary bed to this window to the intercession of St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

Elizabeth enclosed a holy card of the newly-beatified Martyrs in her letter to her young friend Germaine.

de Meester, C 2017, Rien moins que Dieu: sainte Elisabeth de la Trinité, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2003, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity volume 2: Letters from Carmel, translated from the French by Nash, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: In the background, we see a detail of the renowned stained glass depiction of the martyrdom of the Carmelites of Compiègne, masterfully designed and executed by Sr. Margaret Agnes Rope, O.C.D. for the Carmel of Quidenham, England. In the foreground are two newsclips from the New Orleans Times-Democrat (seen on the left) and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (on the right) announcing celebrations in the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in New Orleans and St. Louis to mark the beatification of the Martyrs of Compiègne. Image credit: newspapers.com (Public domain), Discalced Carmelites

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