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Holy Week Message
By: Father Jerry Orbos
Presentation created by: TNatividad
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Maybe your husband/wife/girl/boyfriend is with youright now. Ask him/her, if s/he is willing to die foryou! As the events of the Holy Week unfold, let us notjust be bystanders or onlookers. Let us be a part of itall.
Walk, don't ride! How high you fly at Easter depends on how you
walked the Holy Week. Sorry, there are no short cuts, no freerides in the business of saving one's soul.
The events of this week, starting with Palm Sunday, theLast Supper, the Way of the Cross, the Crucifixion andDeath, the Easter Vigil, and Easter itself have only oneclear message:
You and I are so much loved personally by God
that He gave His only Son to die on the Cross.
Think about it:Is there anyone, anyone at all in your life, who is willing to die for you?
WALK, DON'T RIDE
It is Holy Week. This week is the most
important week for us Christians. In fact, it is
more important than Christmas because if Christ did not suffer, die and rise again (Paschal
Mystery), there would have been no salvation.
Here are some suggestions to make
Holy Week holy. They are all doable,all valuable.
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RELAX :Many of us are overworked and overstressed. We need to rest
our bodies and our minds so that we can "fine tune" withourselves, with other people and with God.
Take a break. Take a walk. Commune with nature. Watch thesunset. Enjoy the moon. Close your cellular phone andyour beeper and just allow yourself to be open to theDivine.
Let go. Let things be. God is in charge. Experience the resting
power of sleep and rest. Smile at the sky. Walk the earth. Whistle a happy tune, or hum a favorite melody.
And just thank God you are still alive.
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REFLECT :
Find time to relax so you can reflect. Don't end up just relaxing. Don't end uptired and empty because you were too busy to relax and thus found no time
to slow down and reflect.
How long has it been now since you have been in this world? What have youdone? You have work, but do you have a life? What is really important foryou? What do you still want to do or accomplish? How is your family and
relationships? And how are you relating with your God?
Is there an area in your life that needs to be healed? Is there excess luggage inyour heart? How would you like to be remembered after you are gone?
Questions.Questions. Allow yourself to be questioned by life itself.
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REPENT : We all fall. We all have mistakes and weaknesses. Accept your
limitations. Welcome to humanity! Be humble. Visit the "redlight" district in the church and make a good confession.
Find time to say sorry to people you may have hurt or just taken forgranted.Make time to visit, to write, to call, to text, to email
anyone you need to say sorry to.
Is there one bad habit you need to give up? Is there one good habit
you need to take up? This is the time for soul-searching. Promiseyourself not to go back to the pit of selfishness and sin.
If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart.
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RENEW : Take time to recharge and just be filled up. Renew your contact with God. Don't just
sit in the comforts of your home and watch the services of the Holy Week.Make thesacrifice of participating in church. Show your gratitude to the Lord.Make that
Bisita Iglesia, that Via Crucis, that Easter Vigil and do it all with gratitude and love.
Renew ties with your immediate family. Make yourself available and vulnerable tothem. Tell them in so many ways that you really care. The world is not just you and
your family. Reach out. Give and share. The time to give is always now and it isnever too late, never too much. Make a generous donation. Go and visit a hospital, an
orphanage, an old folk's home or a sick person.
It would be more wonderful if you can do all these with your family. Renew yourcontact with yourself. Go over old pictures, old letters and files and remember who
you were and what you wanted to be. Clean your room and clean your heart of all the"could-have-beens" and "should-have-beens" and accept yourself.
Embrace yourself for what you are and what you still can be.
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RESIGN : That's right, resign.
Resign «from places and people which and who do notbring out the best in you ...from vices and sins that are
slowly but surely eating you up «from falsehood andpretenses.
Be true. Have substance. No more "japorms". No more"papogi". Just give your best and God will take care of therest.
Resign to God's will and God's plan for you and you will havepeace - that peace of Easter, that peace - which the worldcannot give or take away.
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Good luck, and all the best as you walk the Holy Week. The road that leads to true life is never easy, but theassurance is there:
It is a road that leads to life, and He, Himself is on
the road with you - every step along the way.
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AMoment With the Lord:Lord, help me walk another mile, and help me
smile another smile. Just one more smile as I
walk the Holy Week with You. Amen.
May the Holy Week be for each of us a week of cleansing,a week of renewal and strengthening of our faith - withhope and with Love.
Advance Happy Easter!