Holy Week
Laura DeMaria
Friends, we are fully in Holy Week. Oh boy!
First, I’d like to catch you up on a few things, particularly recent radio interview. Three to catch up on:
Monday, March 8: It' ain’t too late to Lent. Listen here.
Thursday, March 18: How to prepare for Easter and not get all whiplashed by going from fast to feast. Listen here. (starts at ~20:58)
Monday, March 29: Reflecting on spiritual lessons of the past year, and how this Easter is different than last. Listen here. (starts at about 24:00 minutes)
The other thing is, I cannot help but be a tiny bit sad that March is coming to an end and therefore so is the time of extra special devotion to St. Joseph. Now, obviously, one can honor him any ol’ time. But March is his month, and so I will just say, I am glad for his presence and patronage.
And now, we enter Holy Week. As I said in the interview this morning, a church I sometimes attend in DC would have had all kinds of fancy stuff going on this week. Masses and lectures and confessions and things involving bells and incense. But I don’t mind. I will stick with my humble and beloved home parish, and do the Triduum, and be really dang grateful for the fact my church is even open. Last year it wasn’t. Yikes.
Further, I realize I no longer have the need to reflect on the way things were, or to even miss them. They just aren’t like that anymore; what’s the point of living in the past? All things are in God’s hands, everything eventually renews itself, the seasons pass, the leaves change, the flowers come up, our lives go on. This, too, shall pass, as they say.
May you have a blessed, peaceful, fruitful Holy Week.