Have you noticed how life can become boring and repetitive?
Days pass; weeks pass. We don’t even notice. The weeks are all the same, a dull routine.
This is the way it has always been. There were plenty of people living in Jerusalem at the time of Christ who were living dull, routine lives.
When Holy Week came, they missed it. It was just like any other week–just like the week before and the week after–part of the boring, meaningless routine of workaday life.
But what happened that week? The most important things that ever happened.
It is the week that lies at the center of all history, the week that makes life worth living, the week that makes all things new.
The Church exists to keep that week alive on this earth. We are at the threshold of our Church’s most important duty.
Holy Week is not just another week. It is not part of the dull routine. It is not a week that passes us by, un-noticed and instantly forgotten.
No. It is the center of our lives. It is the week out of which we live. It is the week upon which we focus all our attention and longing.
Our sacred mission is to keep next week holy, to live every minute of it with Christ–as if we were in Jerusalem with Him, following His every step.
