The Holiest Week in the year

Holy Week, which begins on the day following Palm Sunday, is the last week of Lent, the week immediately preceding Easter Sunday. It is a time to commemorate and enact the suffering and death of Jesus before his resurrection. As Benedictine Abbot Timothy Wright explained, it is only in walking through the shadows and darkness of Holy Week and Good Friday, only in realizing the horror of sin and its consequences in the world incarnated in the dying Jesus on the cross, only in contemplating the ending and despair that the disciples felt on Holy Saturday, that we can truly understand the light and hope of Sunday morning! So, to be able to even better understand that light and that hope, Linda Bordoni asked Abbot Timothy to lead us day by day, through the Gospel in this holiest of weeks of the year…