Journey Together Through Holy Week (E-Pistle)

Beginning with Palm Sunday, we will journey together through the holiest week of the liturgical year. Jesus’ joyous entry into Jerusalem will soon be confronted with the painful drama of sin, rejection and betrayal.  

As we embrace this week of Jesus’ Passion, Death, and Resurrection, we may experience our own brokenness.  Let us remember that after the suffering of Good Friday, our hope is in the Lord, Jesus, who triumphed over sin and death and offers us new life in his Resurrection. 

In our world today we see the suffering caused by the sins of war, racism, indifference, greed, and so much more. We Christians never lose hope. God promises never to abandon us and that the Risen Lord is always near us.    

In parishes throughout the diocese, many of our brothers and sisters are making final preparations to be received into the Church when they will join us for the first time at the table of the Lord and partake in his Body and Blood.  

As we accompany Our Lord this week, let us reflect on the sacrificial love he has for each of us. With joyful hearts we look forward to the Easter celebrations when we will hear, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?  He is not here, but he has been raised.”