In a few days, we will enter the Holy week. But how will we get out?

Will we retain just an annual memory? A touching memory?

No, this week makes us live a few days full of gravity, decisive days that mark our life. The Holy week awakens us to holiness. It is the very source of holiness, but we can only become saints by following the path of Jesus, the same path He established for us while dying on the cross for our sins.

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus, the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh....."
He 10, 19-20

We Christians, are used to say mere words. This seems so simple: the transition is quickly done. In an overnight: the Cross and the Resurrection.

The cross is not light. The Lord reveals to us that to live the Cross, is to deny ourselves. The renunciation is to pass from the death of ourselves to the life with the Christ. Our path could humanely scare us. There are so many obstacles within us and around us. In spite of our lack of fidelity, the fidelity of the Lord who forgives us, accompany us, helps us up and leads us to the eternal life through the victory of Jesus over death.

"In one sentence of his odes, Salmon said:
If you ever feel the weight of the Cross on your shoulder, just think that this is the hand of the beloved on the shoulder of the loved-one. There is nothing more lovable than the Cross of Jesus. Help us bear this cross with joy for our sanctification, that of our families and our society. Amen.
Father Simon Zind.

Dear brothers and sisters,

The call of the month of April invites us to:

-Celebrate the Eucharist while praying for all the innocent victims of the war in Iraq: May they enter the Joy, the Peace and the light.

-Take time to "sit up" with Jesus on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Kneel down (according to St Basil, to kneel is to show in acts that the sin threw us down), also bend our heart in humility, prepare ourselves to listen to the footsteps of the Risen Lord and follow him. And even if we are only capable of one thought: "it is too long to kneel for an hour", staying awake in itself can translate the Love and unity with the Christ. It has nothing to do with feelings, but a perseverant presence.

May you all have a blessed week.