Happy Holy Week! If you can’t go to the different liturgies, maybe you can set aside 15 minutes each day for prayer and reflection:
Holy Thursday: Community and Service
Spend 15 min meditating on Augustine’s teaching on the Eucharist: “Be what you see, and receive what you are!” What are you? The Body of Christ. Reflect on the community of faith to which you belong, and all the communities of which you are a part. What do you see? At the Eucharist, you see the bread broken and the cup poured out, to be shared among many. Reflect on how you are called to pour out your talents and to offer yourself for the hungers of the world.
Good Friday: Suffering and Sorrow
Christianity does not take a Pollyannish view of the world; it knows that sin, evil and death are real and looks that reality in the face. Spend 15 min praying for all of those in the world who are suffering and all who are sorrowing. Take some time to meditate on your own sorrows and your brokenness as well.
Holy Saturday: Waiting…
Spend 15 min in silent meditation, just waiting. It’s not something we tend to do very well and it’s hard. Like the disciples, we wait while Jesus lies in his tomb, not quite knowing what might happen…but unlike them, we wait in happy anticipation for Easter—and mom’s cooking.
Easter: He is Risen Indeed!
Evil and death do not have the final word. Life insists on bursting forth. Spend 15 min giving praise for new life and new beginnings, in your own life and in the world around you.
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Karen
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Karen Soos
Associate Chaplain and Catholic Campus Minister
Davidson College
Campus Box 7196
Davidson NC 28035
704. 894. 2423
Associate Chaplain and Catholic Campus Minister
Davidson College
Campus Box 7196
Davidson NC 28035
704. 894. 2423
