hello. and on behalf of the arch dioc diocese. it's a journey we said, a communal journey the entire church together on a journey with jesus toward the glory of his resurrection. when today's program airs it will be palm sunday, april 9th and we will have just one week left in the journey. but it's a long, difficult, disturbing, and fascinating week. the last week of jesus life on earth. we call it holy week. >> have inspired art and music

of incomperable beauty. our guest today will help us understand this better. she has a masters degree from the university of nater dame. she's been doing this work as an expert in litter jooe for the arch dioces e. when we come back after this brief break will take a walk.

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>> absolutely. >> so this airs the beginning of palm sunday, april 9th and from palm sunday to easter sunday is the holy week with an array of fantastic sackments. can you walk us through from the beginning to the end. >> it's kind of our super bowl in many ways. starting with palm sunday it celebrates the entrance of jesus into jerusalem. >> tell us where we are. >> this is the archbishop profession. we actually reenact the introons. the services start with those blessing our palms first. this is bishop justice reading the gospel of jesus entering jerusalem. triumphantly with all the people celebrating this man who they thought was a savior, was a

masaiia not knowing what was to am come. so the palms become sack ri mentals. you'll see them folded into crosses or roses. >> and what we saw in the last shot people take those home and they use them in their own worship at home. and on taum sunday we hear the narrative of christ suffering death. >> yeah, many people do a dialog and they have their own lines and different parts are done by different people. it's fantastic to hear this beautiful music. it's a long time to stand. >> and it's strange to be in the crowd yelling crucify him. >> absolutely. so we have to take that responsibility that we probably would have been in the crowd. >> it's a strange and difficult

moment. >> so now let's modify to holy thursday. >> we then technically have holy tuesday, monday, and wednesday. those are kind of the quiet time in the church. we then have holy thursday. so normally in the vatican you would see a prism mass because it's more timely to do it. he blesses the oils that are going to be used throughout the church year. so we get new oils every year and this is him blessing hem, preparing them. and actual holy thursday once that happens lent is officially over at sunset and on holy thursday we celebrate the institution of the last supper. so it is a very large method and we begin three days. it's one long mass.

we have people who are a little confused by that but it's a beautiful service where we actually say this is all one long journey. >> thursday, friday, saturday. >> they all go together. and people can come and go as they please. but on thursday we have many people called the momdotune. as i have loved you. be a serve ant to one another and because of that we have the washing of the feet. so you will see the posttor or the archbishop go down and wash the feet of people signifying that he is a serve ant to them just as jesus washed his apostal feet and in many parishes that extends out. >> it's a beautiful ceremony i know. and then i believe the altars are stripped. the church is emptied and then good friday is upon us.

>> right holy ends beautifully on friday where there's prayer during the evening and we go into friday like you said. we strip the altar. it becomes a very solemn time and we drape across as you saw in that other photo usually in red. >> and good friday now. we have a few photos of local would you call these precessions? >> we have the stations of the cross at many of our parishes. the cathedral does it at 1:00 and again the stages showing those stations that jesus walked on his way to passion. the pope does it in the coliseum in rome. >> some of our churches are reenactments in costume. but there's three hours where you acknowledge and remember and mourn and celebrate the suffering and death of jesus on friday afternoon. >> right. >> and there's again you read

the passion there and you hear the story. >> this time we hear the passion narrative. >> and good friday ends how? >> in ultimate simplicity as i said there's one long litteragy and friday ends the same way in that people just fade away. we have the cross ready. people can go and pray in front of the cross but the time is just kind of we're in sleep mode. so we're kind of in a very quiet time. it's time for fasting, for prayer. just very quiet. there can be no sackriments. there's absolutely nothing else going on in the church. >> it is quite striking to see the empty church, the darkened church were all symbolically in the tomb in the dark. >> but we just commemorate that time. kind of an anniversary of wow

this was an amazing time and of course his apostals and we're all his followers were confused. >> so what happens next is holy saturday and i believe that holy saturday the litteragy is at night. so we'll go into some depth into that. rejoin us for a walk through holy week.

we've arrived at holy saturday.

. >> yeah, during the day we actually have complete fast and the churches are empty. you can go and pray but there will be no other services until after sunset. after sunset boy do we have a service and it will last several hours and it begins with a famous service we call it the service of light. so after this darkness of three days in the tomb we now have this beautiful festival of light where light, christ, the light of the world has come into our lives because he has risen. >> this is the cathedral. a lot of parishes have to have it outside. easter they're not appreciative. but we start with this bonfire literally that the church has been darkened. and so you start this bonfire and sometimes all you hear is the crackling of wood as we walk in silently.

and here the archbishop and he takes his light and we light all the candles throughout the church. there's this beautiful service of everyone holding these golden glows and the idea is once you all have candles. you don't have the electrical lights on because you've got this beautiful glow of l the lights from the candles. >> right. >> and there's a beautiful thing that links into good friday. on good friday we have something. we have the precession of the cross where it says hold the wood of the cross in which kries, our savior died. this time we hold the easter candle and we say christ our life and it's the same precession but we're having that position to change to the death we've celebrated and the life we see and the light. so the very next thing that's is

called the exultat. it can be pro claimed if someone can't see. but it declares. rejoice. and it's poetry. it just goes through all sorts of ideas of christ, the morning star. christ is overcome the depths of darkness. heaven has come to earth and earth has come to heaven. it's just this beautiful declaration of how joyous we are and how this darkness of three days is over and now we celebrate what's truly happened. >> is this text by st. auguston. >> we know it's probably 4th or 5th century and sometimes it's in latin and obviously translated into other languages. >> it's a bootful song and that begins the ceremony i guess and then there's mass. >> then there is. now we're back into mass. you can have up to eight readings and it's the story of

creation and god's entrance. so we go through a lot of the old testament. a lot of singing. a lot of prayer. we can make it long but it's beautiful because you start with genesis and you go through all the way up until christ. >> personally i like it. >> in a nutshell. >> and it's deep. you go deep into med station just sitting in the pew there and taking it in. >> i told people put your watch away. just sit back and enjoy these beautiful stories. hear them in sequence and the idea is we're of course hearing them with the knowledge that christ has risen. >> and we also now welcome ceremony ally. >> we have what's called the bpa advertise mall. people who've never been baptized before children and adults we have the bpa 'tis

baptismal service. it used to be an ancient church. we now of course let people enter the church any time of the year. but for new people, adults we have them do it here on this ancient night. >> you have an interest and a knowledge about orthodox littergj as well. >> well just that we follow different calendars. the date of easter does change of easter but we calculate it a different way than the orthodox. so some years we don't celebrate easter on the same day. this year 2017 we're all celebrating it together. orthodox churches will celebrate it it on the same sunday and also because we believe that the narratives were during passover in jerusalem. so they all converge. >> yeah, and i'm not sure we

call it holy thursday but does everyone realize that's the passover supper. >> was a passover meal we believe. >> yeah. >> where he would have gotten together with his friends. >> it's so fascinating and so deep. it's how do i put it it's endlessly. you can plummet endlessly as we'll see in our next segment. now i wanted to ask you something because what most people know about easter is easter eggs and easter bunnies. we've had the mass. christ has risen. whiteness but can you tell us about easter eggs and easter bunnies what's that got to do with the catholic church. >> just like christmas. the eggs are a sign that if you are fasting throughout lent eventually you would have no butter, no fat at all.

no protein. so having, getting to have eggs was a treat getting to finally have pancakes and wonderful food. >> so the eggs became a sense of let's decorate. also we always decorate easter in spring. so those are kind of secular signs. >> and they're generous and lots of fun. and i never pine for the taste of hot crust bun at easter. >> they make them the rest of the year but you're missing out. but it is fun and it's very fun that if people the tradition of giving things up for lent it's very fun to know that after the easter vigil you can go have that piece of chocolate to celebrate the time of deprivation is over let's indulge. thank you for that. we'll talk about in our next segment is art and music of

christ passion, death, and resurrection. please join us.

hello and welcome back. we're going to turn to the question of music and art that has been stimulated and inspired by the holy week of easter and again i just wanted to mention so much well-known music that's been inspired by easter. just to mention box passions, the st. john's passion and what i read was he wrote two others gospels and those have been lost. but so much fantastic music and importantly i think handles masaiia which is you wanted to tell us about. >> well it's just interesting because i think in the united states handles masaiia becomes a

christmas piece. and listens to it which it's a beautiful piece but handle masaiia is actually written in three pieces. the second is the passion, death, and resurrection and it culminates in the the kor russ. it is celebration. that's the ultimate celebration and then the third part is his message to us while he's back on earth. so i always say to people don't listen to the masaiia christmas but listen to it at easter. that's the time to really make it special. that's the time you want to sing that hallelujah loud voice to really celebrate because that is what the song is talking about. >> and we know there's a lot of music in the bay area that people can hear this time of year. so let's talk about art because you've selected a few favorite paintings and so on of your own. you can tell us about. >> obviously christian art was inspired many artists and that's

how they got funded and what they depicted. i'm no art historian. one of the most famous is the leonardo did ivinci's last supper. it's been redone and parodied and looked into. they've restored it recently. it's just beautiful. a beautiful piece of perspective. there's also more modern pieces. dolly has the supplement of the last supper. same picture. it's the picture of him instituting last supper. it looks a little more spaceship. dolly as you and i discovered became a catholic so a lot of his heart was about jesus and his scriptures. >> and we'll see it again. >> the cruise fiction interestingly enough for the first several hundred years of

christians they did not depict the crucifixion. it wasn't until 4th, 5th century that people started depicting it. others depicted it more beautiful and you can see even here you see the glow around christ but it is still something where he is being dying on the cross. >> the first one we saw was. >> oops i have to look at my list. della francesca. >> will and then valasquez. >> this is another dolly and it's supposed to be st. john of god's cross and it's supposed to depict how god saw the crucifixion so it's god looking

down on his son being killed but the colors are beautiful and it just picks a different viewpoint. >> yeah. and... >> but then obviously we go on. you don't want to focus on the good friday. you want to look at this. this is the dela francesca and the dela francesca resurrection of christ and it's beautiful to show that next step. >> so here we have christ being taken down from the cross. >> with mary and the disciples tragic. we look at all of these things and we have a perspective that they don't have. we look at them and say these are things but we now know what happened so here we have the resurrection. this is a very famous piece. >> dela francesca what year, what time? >> renaissance. >> and i read that alex huxly

said jesus is very athletic. >> sometimes there are more bust jesuses than not. but it does sort of that try um, if. he even has that flag like he's going to stake claim. >> another one i findfast mating. >> so the book of kell's is mainly in ireland and it's a beautiful depiction of illuminating manuscripts. but where they took the passion and they took all that they love about the gospel and the scriptures and actually described the different artwork around it. >> and this is the line of betrayal. the first letter a in that word is two lions biting each other and i'm told that's judas biting

the neck of jesus. yeahs this is showing mary with jesus into her arms and the destruction on her face. it's beautiful. >> and then then christ the redeemer. >> a huge beautiful statue. >> fantastic. thank you for taking us through that. let me ask you how we wind up this program. >> i would say what people don't realize is how beautiful the hol week is and you've got everything. you've got music, it's just gorgeous and i would really encourage people to come and see. if you haven't been to a church in a long time come for 30 minutes. it will change you. >> join us for holy week in a catholic church near you.

thanks very much for joining us. well see you next time on mosaic.

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