Holy Week

2015 Holy Week Friday’s Station

This is the most meaningful Holy Week…  my first Holy Week after Angel Duc.  It formally started with Friday’s Station of the Cross, Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday Novena and Mass, Maundy Thursday’s Bisita Iglesia, Good Friday’s Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Black Saturday’s Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday’s Salubong and Mass.

 

The week was peaceful and non-stressful just the way I like it.  I never did like to go out of town during Holy Week and join the bandwagon of millions of tourists squeezing into tourist spots, beaches, pools, etc.  but somehow my family, vino and Hane wants to go out of town.  I want to make my future Holy Week like this…  really energizing for Jesus’ Passion, Death and Resurrection.

 

It started with Friday’s stations of the cross – I just wanted to do it as a Friday night gimmick and I brought Vino along.  But that activity turned out to be such a profound one… I realized that I can relate to this…  how my 2014 is the first part of the stations of the cross…  full of suffering – not betrayal… although a small part of my heart still has this resentment towards You Lord.  I know it’s wrong that’s why I’m still not completely healed.  I can relate it to Angel Duc, how he suffered and carried the cross of that congenital disorder.  How brave he was and how he really fought hard to stay alive.  It’s the Passion…  Jesus suffered through it so that He could save us from sin… Angel Duc suffered through it so that he could save me…  it’s not enough that I just go to mass, I need to do something bigger… I don’t want to be passive! 

 

Jesus has suffered through all of it and I think maybe one reason is for all the people who suffered to really relate to him… like me.  I now understand the importance of Jesus becoming man so that all of us can really relate and say that I am one with Jesus.  His suffering is so great, my suffering is nothing compared to what He went through. 

 

Death.  “Unto thy hands, I commend my Spirit”.  It is somehow a relief to die…  to leave the physical earth and leave all the suffering and problems.  And it’s a way to transition to something that is much greater. 

 

Resurrection.  This is now a new word to me…  I’m so grateful that there is life after death… that I will see my Angel duc on the other side… the he is so much more happy there and that he is waiting for me…  Thank you Papa Jesus for saving us and creating that world for us.  I now realize the importance of Holy Week and I want to have it as a tradition to just make it as Holy every year.