My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

HOLY WEEK is here. It is an awesome 8 days of the liturgical year. It begins with Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday) and ending with Easter Sunday. We are called to enter into a deeper journey of uniting ourselves with Jesus, connecting our sufferings to His sufferings, our passion to His passion, our need for the glory of resurrection to His glorious resurrection.

Holy Week is a time when millions of minds will be focused upon last hours of the earthly life of Jesus. Jesus makes His triumphant journey from Bethany to Jerusalem to pass through death. This is the most sacred time of the Church liturgy. It highlights the peak moments of Christ’s love for us.

Jesus was betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter and abandoned by all – “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” But He remains faithful to God’s will to the end, does not turn back in His trial.

This final week of Lent offers us an opportunity to bring our hearts and minds into harmony with Christ. We are invited to make a special effort to attend and participate in this Holy Week liturgy and listen to the Passion and death story of life of Jesus in a spirit of prayer and embrace its message.

Please do find some quite time to read and meditate on the Passion and death of Jesus. You can choose any Gospel you want because each Gospel has presented 2 chapters of Passion and death of Jesus. Just spent your quite time reading and praying the passion narrative of Jesus this Holy Week.