{"id":6984,"date":"2010-03-29T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=6984"},"modified":"2010-03-30T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:38:04","slug":"commentary-preparing-for-holy-week-and-knowing-its-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/commentary-preparing-for-holy-week-and-knowing-its-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Preparing for Holy Week and knowing its significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6985\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/crs007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6985 \" title=\"crs007\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/crs007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: takemeiamyours.files.wordpress.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Holy Week is upon us. It is a time when we fast with joy, submitting  ourselves to spiritual struggles in preparation for\u00a0 the sorrowful Passion  and joyful Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 need for\u00a0 God\u2019s assistance and mercy, placing our complete trust  in His affectionate providence; it is a prescription for salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Let us  be up and on our way.<br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8211; Paul Kokoski<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holy Week is upon us. It is a time when we fast with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggles in preparation for\u00a0 the sorrowful Passion and joyful Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 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