15/04/2025

Tuesday in Holy Week

It is a long time since I had to go out to go to work. I am, thus, able to focus on the Mass-Readings for each day of Holy Week and stay synchronised with the liturgical rhythm of  the Roman Church..

But, I am also afraid to commit myself to the intensity of prayer that becomes total isolation from the things of this world. On each of these days the whole of the Liturgy immerses us in the real events that happened in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. That is always the sole purpose of any Mass. 

"Do this in memory of me". 

Holy Week, however, is for me the leaven that is the Grace of the Holy Spirit, recognised and accepted by the sinner that I am, that can defeat all the recognised sinfulness of my being and protect my soul from the apparently innocent self-centredness that blocks me and the other disciples from "spending one hour" with Jesus who as true-man actually, in real-time, needed the support of his friends for whom, as True-God  he had decided to bridge the inconceivable void that there is between the flesh of creation and the Evergreatness of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In the above "second paragraph" there is the keyword "afraid". God knows that I would truly be afraid to step into the void which seems to separate me from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT if not for an inner voice. I thank God, therefore, for this inner voice that assures me that the bridge between us and the Father has not been made by any of the high priests, scribes or Pharisees but  is the Eternal Love that was revealed in Palestine 2000 years ago.

It is the truly infallible way, truth and life that is the Resurrection and the only Pontifex Maximus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who is responding to each one of us who prays with the spirit of a child to "Our Father". My God reaches out me.

How could I refuse such Love?