Holy Week is about
transformation for it calls us to journey deeper, to encounter Christ, to
witness God’s love and to discover truths about ourselves and our journey of
faith. As we enter into this week each day demands of us an awareness of transformation.
“Look your king is coming to you, humble, and
mounted on a donkey…”
– Matthew 21.5
Palm Sunday
calls us to look at what we need to let go of
to be transformed.
Do we just shout
Hosanna or are we willing to pick up the cross?
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust.
– Psalm 71.5
The quiet days of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week
are simply that,
a reminder of quiet and reflection needed in our lives.
Are we quiet enough to
hear how God is inviting and calling us to be opened and transformed?
“This is my Body that is for you. Do this in
remembrance of me.”
– 1 Corinthians 11.24
Holy Thursday
reminds us that we are all family, we are
called to the Table of Life and
we are called to serve.
Who do we invite to
our daily table? Do we help others to be nourished?
Do we take the time to
appreciate the gift it is to receive the Bread of Life?
Where do we ‘wash the
feet’ of our family and neighbors?
Christ became obedient for us to death, even
death on a cross.
–
Philippians 2.8
Good Friday.
The transforming cross is placed before us.
Can we gaze on it and
place all our worries and fears, hopes and dreams at it?
Do we trust that
through the cross we are transformed and brought
to the fullest of life?
Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods
her,
ablaze with light from her eternal King,
let all corners of the earth be glad,
knowing
an end to gloom and darkness.
– Easter Exsultet
Holy Saturday.
This two-fold day…
we begin at the tomb with
the stone rolled across
we end leaving the
tomb for the stone has been rolled away.
This is the night of
nights, this is truly about transformation
from darkness to light, emptiness to fullness,
broken to whole, death to life.
Where in our lives
have we recently experienced darkness to light, death to life?
Have we let this transformation
touch us and how we live our lives?
O Give thanks to the Lord for he is good;
his
steadfast love endures forever.
This is the day the Lord has made;
let us
rejoice and be glad.
– Psalm 118.1, 24
Easter Sunday.
New Life – Redeemed,
Freedom, Transformed
Indeed let us rejoice!
Let us give thanks to our God for the gift of new life which is life
transformed by the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that we are claimed
for life eternal by our God.
How can we help others
experience new life?
Where in our own
journey do we need to experience the transformation new life offers?
How will we live as
Easter people this year?
As we journey into
this week of weeks,
may we be open to the gift of transformation
that it offers to us.
Blessings on your
journey.
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