Schedule of RTE broadcasts for Holy Week and the Easter Triduum.

Published on March 30, 2021

Palm Sunday – 28th March RTÉ News Channel, 2.15pm, Mass

https://www.churchservices.tv/cavancathedral

Monday – 29th March RTÉ News Channel, 1030am, Mass, https://www.churchservices.tv/ardfinnan

Tuesday – 30th March RTÉ News Channel, 1030am – Mass,

https://www.churchservices.tv/maryimmacdublin

Wednesday – 31st March RTÉ News Channel, 1030am – Mass,

https://www.churchservices.tv/riverchapel

Holy Thursday – 1st April RTÉ One, 16.40 (repeated Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 1900) – Mass of the Lord’s Supper celebrated by Fr Martin Smith (Chaplain, Carlow IT) with members of RTÉ Cor Linn

Good Friday – 2nd April RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 1500-1600 – Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday from Knock Basilica.

There is also a liturgy in Irish at the same time on Raidio na Gaeltachta: Dé hAoine 02 Aibreán 2021, 15.00 – 16.00 Searmanas na Páise: Searmanas Aoine an Chéasta beo ó Shéipéal Ghobnatan i

gCúil Aodha, Co, Chorcaigh.

Holy Saturday – 3rd April RTÉ One, 1200 noon. Countdown to Calvary (Rpt). Downton Abbey star and Cambridge University theology graduate, Hugh Bonneville, tells the story of the last days of Jesus’ life.

RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 2300-0015 – Easter Vigil Mass from Knock Basilica, which is recognised by Pope Francis as an International Marian and Eucharistic Shrine

Easter Sunday – 4th April RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 1000-1100 – Easter Sunday Mass from « La Carità » COVID hospital in Locarno, Switzerland.

12.25-12.55 (approx) Pope Francis’ Easter Urbi et Orbi Message and Blessing will follow live coverage of the 1916 commemoration by President Michael D. Higgins.

Reflection

Jesus tells his disciples to look at him and touch him. Then he asks them for something to eat. What does Pope Francis say we can learn from these three actions of Jesus?
The second verb is to touch. By inviting the disciples to touch him, to verify that he is not a ghost—touch me!— Jesus indicates to them and to us that the relationship with him and with our brothers and sisters cannot remain “at a distance.” Christianity does not exist at a distance; Christianity does not exist only at the level of looking. Love requires looking and it also requires closeness; it requires contact, the sharing of life. The Good Samaritan did not limit himself to looking at that man whom he found half dead along the road: he stopped, he bent down, he treated his wounds, he touched him, he loaded him onto his mount and took him to the inn. And it is the same with Jesus himself: loving him means entering into a communion of life, a communion with him.
Being Christian is not first a doctrine or a moral ideal; it is a living relationship with him, with the Risen Lord: we look at him, we touch him, we are nourished by him and, transformed by his Love; we look at, touch and nourish others as brothers and sisters.
Pope Francis,