It
is an important message to remember. Holy Week is about the darkness and
suffering in the world. It is about injustice and the isolation felt when the
weight of the world falls upon your shoulders. Holy Week is about the reality
of cruelty and callous nature that resides in the seats of power and authority.
It is about the inability to stand with those you love amidst their darkest
hour. It is about betrayal and being sold out by
someone you loved and welcomed into your circle of friendship and community.
Holy Week is about the suffering of the
innocent and the victory of the ruthless. It is about forgiveness, sorrow,
disappointment, anguish, abandonment, and death. Holy Week is about the worst
of times and the crushing of dreams. It is about suffering and a diagnosis of
death. Why does the church do Holy Week? Because these events remain in the
world around and beyond us and the church is called to be present - amidst the bleak
and darkened days of our world.
Frankly, I myself have no interest in a
church that cannot be present and engaged amidst the worst of times, but
chooses only to observe the most glorious of days.
Be present with the world in her suffering,
be present with the church in Holy Week.
Fr, Richard
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