Thanks for this excellent post from Vinita Hampton Wright here
I have unashamedly pinched the text hook line and sinker and reproduced it below except for the added image which is a sculpture by Miro.
"I don’t think it’s possible to take
in all of it during any one day or week, even if we attend all the special
church services and read the extra Scripture readings and spend more time in
prayer. There’s only so much one heart can hold and feel and comprehend.
So listen to your own heart and
allow it to land in a specific place this week—an event or one aspect of an
event that takes place in Jesus’ life during Holy Week.
St. Ignatius encourages us to have conversational prayer with Jesus, walking alongside Jesus as a friend while he goes through his great Passion.
St. Ignatius encourages us to have conversational prayer with Jesus, walking alongside Jesus as a friend while he goes through his great Passion.
Sculpture by Miro
Imagine watching something horrific happening to a person you know and love. Some of us don’t have to imagine—we have experienced this.
Allow Jesus’ experience of the Passion
to be as close and human as the suffering you have witnessed in your life or
another’s. Take the time to consider details such as:
§ Sharing with friends
what you know will be a last meal
§ Being arrested and
secreted away from loved ones
§ Going through a legal process
without any advocate or legal representation
§ Being abused by law
enforcement or other people with power over you
§ Having your words and
actions skewed by others
§ Watching close
companions scatter and disappear when you need them most
§ Being subjected to
torture, whether private or public
§ Seeing your mother’s
face, as she watches you suffer and cannot help you
§ Meeting your death in a
situation that is chaotic and painful, and one that misrepresents you to the
whole world.
Grace to you, as you meditate on
suffering, compassion, and love."
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