Holy Week is upon us. It is a time when we fast with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggles in preparation for the sorrowful Passion and joyful Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
What is demanded of all Christians at this time is fasting, abstinence, restriction of personal desires and pleasures, intense prayer, confession, and similar ascetic elements.
Holy Week is a sacred time of divine grace, which seeks to detach us from things material, lowly and corrupt in order to attract us toward things superior, wholesome and spiritual. It is a unique opportunity to remove from the soul every inordinate passion so as to make room for the immense rejoicing and gladness of Easter.
Limiting ourselves to what is absolutely essential and necessary in an attitude of dignified, deliberate simplicity is a formula for patience and tolerance; it is an opportunity to acknowledge and emphasize our need for God’s assistance and mercy, placing our complete trust in His affectionate providence; it is a prescription for salvation.
Let us be up and on our way.
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This week, which we recognize as Holy Week, is the week that causes mankind to reminisce–to recall in their minds–the event that took place, when God, Eternal Spirit of Love, in the form of flesh and bones through His Person, the Son, who is Jesus Christ, suffered the penalty of death that they who believe might have Life.
Yes, Jesus said: I have come that they might have “Life”. I always write that word with a capital L, to emphasize on the fact that simple existence in this world does not mean that a person has “Life”. Otherwise Jesus would not have said, I have come that they might have “Life” because He said that to people, who were standing around and listening to Him. So why would He have to say He came to give people “Life” if they already had it?
As human beings we have failed to understand that we came into this world in a state of spiritual death, but Life is in the Spirit. And so, even if we exist in this world, without knowing God, and His ways of Love, we continue to exist as a formation of dust, waiting to return to our origin form.
But God Almighty want mankind to live in harmony with Him; that was the reason He created us in the first place. So that is the reason Jesus said “I have come that they might have Life and that they might have more abundantly” In that, “God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, to suffer, bleed, and die, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have “Eternal Life” And this alone is all we need to keep in our mind this Holy Week, and our faith will do the rest.
For faith brings Life; and Hope presses on to the fullness of Life, but Love is Life in us–the state of spiritual Light in our awakened soul. “For in Him–Jesus Christ–there was Life, and the Life was the Light of men”.
Every human being is a child of a human parents, but not every human being is a child of God. Jesus told Nicodemus, flesh gives birth to flesh, but Spirit gives to Spirit. You must be born of Water and the Spirit. And this rebirth is the birth of Love. For Love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. And knowing God is evidence of Eternal Life in us. For this is Eternal Life, that they know You, the One True God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. That is the purpose of reminiscing on the events of Holy Week.
Let’s sacrifice and seek the Lord’s forgiveness for our transgressions.
Let’s us all find God in our heart and be at peace with ourselves always. Amazing Grace!
why specifically this week. Our walk with Christ demands we do this more than just one week a year.
Let’s do it for Dominica
The Week that Changed the World!