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Tuesday of Holy Week | Readings: Isaiah 49:1-6; John 13:21-33, 36-38
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Monday of Holy Week | Readings: Isaiah 42:1-7; John 12:1-11
As members of the body of Christ, we experience the death and resurrection that Jesus did. Everything in our lives—the heights of joy and triumph, the depths of suffering and death—is united with the life of Christ. The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’ command to pick up your cross and follow him.
Palm Sunday | Readings: Philippians 2:6-11
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So it is that the Sabbath, if practiced well, is no refuge from our everyday lives, but a reorientation that should come to permeate them.
Selfishness leads nowhere and love frees. Those who are able to live their lives as a gift to give others will never be alone and will never experience the drama of the isolated conscience. Jesus says something remarkable to us: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Love always takes this path: to give one’s life.
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent | Readings: Ezekiel 37:21-28; John 11:45-56
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Jesus’ death and resurrection express a reality that is complicated, emotionally moving, and yet joyful. Death does not have the last word. And that is indeed the good news. God is the one who will be there for us! God is the one who is concerned and cares for us! God is the one who, as we pray in Psalm 34, hears the cry of the poor!
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent | Readings: Jeremiah 20:10-13; John 10:31-42
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent | Readings: Genesis 17:3-9; John 8:51-59
