Making the Most of Holy Week
It’s Holy Week, and we have almost completed our forty days of Lent—nearly arriving at the finish line. We hope your Lenten season has proved fruitful! Now let’s turn our attention to the sacred days ahead so that we can enter them deeply and make the most of this holy time.
The Heart of the Liturgical Year
The Easter Triduum—Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday—is the heart of the Church’s liturgical year. In these three days, we walk with Christ from the Upper Room to Calvary to the empty tomb.
The Church grows quiet and watchful. We are invited not simply to remember these events, but to participate in them—to unite our lives, our sufferings, and our hopes to the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Spy Wednesday: A Call to Fidelity
On Spy Wednesday, we recall Judas’s betrayal: thirty pieces of silver in exchange for the Lord of glory. It is a sobering reminder of our own capacity to turn away from Christ.
As we examine our hearts this week, we are invited to ask:
- Where am I being called to deeper fidelity?
- How can I respond with greater generosity and love?
Holy Thursday: Love Made Visible
Holy Thursday begins the sacred Triduum with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. We remember the institution of the Eucharist—Christ’s body and blood given for us—and his command to love through humble service, symbolized in the washing of feet.
This is love made visible: self-giving, sacrificial, and deeply personal.
Good Friday: The Mystery of the Cross
On Good Friday, we stand at the foot of the cross. It is a day of silence, fasting, and profound gratitude.
What appears to be defeat becomes victory.
What looks like tragedy becomes redemption.
In Christ’s suffering, we discover that no pain is meaningless when united to him. The cross reveals both the seriousness of sin and the even greater power of divine mercy.
Holy Saturday: Waiting in Hope
Holy Saturday is a day of stillness and waiting. Christ lies in the tomb; the Church keeps vigil.
Then, in the darkness of the Easter Vigil, a single flame pierces the night.
The resurrection changes everything.
Death is defeated.
Hope is restored.
The stone is rolled away—not only from Christ’s tomb, but from our hearts.
Easter Joy
As we prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we pray that the joy of the resurrection fills your home and renews your faith.
Thank you for walking with us this Lent with us at Team Hope Ministries.
A Final Blessing
May you and your loved ones have a blessed and joyful Easter.
God bless you,
Rick Herring
thmjmj@gmail.com