Holy Week is not a time for us to get lost in the isolation of our own shame and our own sin because that’s not what it was about for Jesus. For Jesus, it was about redeeming us from that sin, lifting us up out of it, placing joy in our hearts, filling them so that they burst open for everyone to see, so that everyone might feel connected in the love that bursts forth from us.
As we celebrate the Triduum, we don’t stop at Good Friday to beat ourselves up – we take it as part of the trajectory down and then back up for Easter with Jesus as he rises. That is our trajectory as we embrace the cross that reveals the pain that every one of us knows intimately. When we pass through it, we leave it behind; it no longer defines us. Resurrection does… if we let it.
--Fr. Patrick Michaels,
Homily, March 24, 2024
Homily, March 24, 2024
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