"In many ways, Holy Week holds within it our entire human story — all of the hope, tragedy, love, and joy that shapes our days. It reveals to us the horrors of injustice, but it also shows us the deepest love the world has ever seen. As we move from the intimacy of the Last Supper, to the agony of Gethsemane, to the desolation of Golgotha, we can find traces of our own stories — stories of friendship and betrayal, fervor and futility, hope and humiliation... think about Jesus willingly taking up one of those crosses and saying, “I will not stop for you. I will not choose safety at the expense of injustice and evil. I will not save my own skin while you keep killing the people I love."
What will we do?
Read this and more in Debie Thomas' "Cruciform."
You are holy
Infinite and holy
A billion suns rise for you
Clouds paint the skies for you
Mountains stand tall for you
Valleys bow down to you
Everything rising to
Sing all our songs for you
- The Liturgists, "Vapor"
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