The Journey of Holy Week: From Palm Sunday to Easter

Holy week is the most sacred week of the entire liturgical year. Throughout human history, nothing can rival its weight or its beauty. Spanning from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, it invites Christians to enter deeply into Christ’s paschal journey – His crucifixion and triumphant resurrection, conquering sin and death.

In the Greek and Roman liturgical books it is called the Great Week, because great deeds were done by God during this week.

Up to this time, the gates of heaven were closed because of the original sin of Adam. Jesus changed all that. By paying the price for our sins on the Cross, He gained for us our eternal salvation, and heaven was opened once more. Those who engage wholeheartedly in living the paschal cycle discover it can change them forever – the Triduum, standing at the heart of the Easter season, is an intense immersion in the fundamental mystery of what it is to be Christian. during these days, we suffer with Christ so that we might rise with Him at His glorious Resurrection.

Holy Week is not a memory – it is an encounter. Every Mass, every veneration of the Cross, every moment of silence before the empty tabernacle is an invitation to let the love of God break the heart open and remake it entirely.

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