Monday of Holy Week

Monday of Holy Week

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble! The key component in the composition of our song today is the silence: the space in between the questions and the trembling. That’s where we feel the weight of the Cross. Our faith leads us to seek to better understand what we believe. But before it gets to our brain, faith passes through the heart that place at the center of ourselves that we’ve been cultivating throughout Lent.
That’s where we tremble with this song.

This week we walk with Jesus through his Passion and Death, which is full of drama and movement. We don’t often imagine him in the quiet, in-between moments away from the action: on the dark, quiet walk up the Mount of Olives, waking up in the quiet of a jail cell, and catching his breath after the scourging. He would not have wasted the stillness of these moments, and neither should we this week.

Prayer for Morning
Faithful Father, you sent your Son to bring us the fullness of your love. Speak to my heart this week as I walk through your Son’s Passion. Holy One, I listen for your Word.

Ponder Today
What is the prayer I want to bring to the quiet moments in between all the action of this week?

Prayer for Evening
Faithful Father, though your Son suffered and died, you did not abandon him—and you do not abandon us. Help me to take on Jesus’s faithfulness. Holy One, I give you gratitude and praise for your grace.