Palm Sunday: The WEEK begins!

Hi Friends!

We begin Holy Week this Sunday. Sometimes it's easy to go through this week with a limited vision. We hear about Jesus' thanksgiving day parade into Jerusalem. We imagine Jesus and His disciples preparing for and then eating the Last Supper. We retell His arrest, trial, torture, Way of the Cross and Crucifixion. Then, next Sunday, we learn of His first Resurrection appearances to Mary, Peter, John, the Apostles, and the two on the way to Emaus. 

I think that seeing and hearing of all of these events as what happened some 2000 years ago limits their impact on us now. Yes, they did happen in a historical time and place. BUT, with all things with God, the things that happened with Jesus in that Holy Week  two millennia ago are way beyond any time and locale. Jesus is the Christ and God's Son and therefore is still walking the Way of the Cross. He is always living, suffering, dying and rising for all of us who still need Him to be our Messiah and the Son of God for us in our time. 

Our spiritual work this Holy Week is to prayerfully discern how He is still walking the Way for you, me and the World. How have my sins and selfishness (and yours) put Him on trial and crucified Him now? How do we reject the violence, grudge holding, hatred and selfishness that keeps us from a full relationship with Him? How do we accept the forgiveness, love, and new life that only He can give us? What is holding me back from being fully alive?

The events of Jesus' life, death and resurrection are current events. The more we let Him be our only Savior and God, the more precious and fruitful this life and His life becomes.

Have a Holy Week!

paz,
me