Saint Edward Parish Family » Palm Sunday http://saintedwardparish.org Our door is open…Our table is set…All are welcome… Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:40:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Holy Week In Two Minutes http://saintedwardparish.org/holy-week-in-two-minutes/ http://saintedwardparish.org/holy-week-in-two-minutes/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:57:59 +0000 Sister Therese Ann http://saintedwardparish.org/?p=2119 Want to know why Catholics wave palms on Palm Sunday; wash each other’s feet on Holy Thursday; or kiss the cross on Good Friday? Look no further…

]]> http://saintedwardparish.org/holy-week-in-two-minutes/feed/ 0 Father Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit http://saintedwardparish.org/father-into-your-hands-i-commend-my-spirit/ http://saintedwardparish.org/father-into-your-hands-i-commend-my-spirit/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:57:15 +0000 Sister Therese Ann http://saintedwardparish.org/?p=440 For most of us,  Holy Week unfolds like many other weeks: work, school, preparing meals, doing laundry. Palm Sunday begins an unusual week – a week – concentrated in a few days on the ultimate meaning of our lives. We are invited this week to reflect on these questions: Why are we here? What have we been called to do? What are we willing to die for?

We have journeyed from Ash Wednesday to this day. This week, we will experience the last hours of the life of Jesus. We must slow down and make choices so that this week does not go by without our taking time to enter into its meaning.

In our Gospel today, even in the midst of great suffering, Jesus extends his compassion to others, so total, that he  willingly empties himself to the point of death. As we enter this week, let us pray that our self-emptying for the good of others will be so total.

We celebrate in the liturgies of this week what we live every day – all the dying to self that characterizes our faithful discipleship. The triumph of this week is in doing our tasks with joy, being kind to those around us [even those cranky folks], meeting setbacks as paths to learning. Then, with Jesus, we can commend ourselves into God’s hands.

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