THE CROSS: A Personal Reflection on the Holy Week

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THE CROSS: A Personal Reflection on the Holy Week

(March 25, 2024)

 

The Holy Days of recall on the Paschal Mystery (Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ) has begun. Indeed, what an opportunity for us to take time for vacation not for fun and frolic but from the concerns of the world to the concerns of our spiritual being, which is actually the foundation of our existence, the basis and meaning of our life.

It is very timely, or so it seems, that a very challenging situation is set before me involving my personal life. The knowledge of it even came after I formally turned over the Holy Relic of the Cross as a donation to the Parish of the Holy Cross received by the Parish Priest. Now I am beginning to see and, hopefully, understand the significance of such a move.

Am I giving up the “crosses” of my life?

Am I surrendering the “crosses” in my life to God?

Is God telling me that it’s about time to allow Him to appropriately take charge of my life?



My Reflection:

During these Holy Days, it seems like the Lord is telling me that I have kept the crosses of my life to myself for too long already and it is now time to hand over to Him all my worries and concerns. That I have tried for too long to carry my “crosses” all by myself and it’s time to lift them all up to Him. That it has been a while since I kept to myself the “crosses” even of other people, family and friends, and it’s time to allow Him to carry those “crosses” with me. That during these Holy Days, I seek His guidance, His word, His will. The act of donating the Holy Relic of the Cross to the Parish is an act of surrendering to God the “crosses” that I have been quietly, even secretly, carrying all by myself.

 

My Prayer:

Lord, grant me the mind to know and understand.

Gift me with the will to accept and transcend.

Give me a heart that feels the brokenness of people.

Grace me with your compassion and forgiveness and that I may also do the same.


O God, bless me with the courage to surrender myself to you and the ability to do your will.

 

Amen.

 


 

Acknowledgments:

·        https://elem.hcdsb.org/stanne/2020/04/holy-week-begins/

·        https://www.pietystall.co.uk/stations-of-the-cross/

·        https://www.jppc.net/ngg_tag/holy-week/nggallery/page/2

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