by Abbot Patrick Troadec FSSPX,
Holy
Week, the heart, the “Holy of Saints” of the liturgical year! As the Church
gradually prepared us before letting us in! Today, she lifts the veil of
monkeys and symbols. It enables us to
contemplate the most sublime mystery of salvation and even to participate in
it.
During
this week, we will contemplate the sufferings that Our Lord Jesus Christ
endured during his Passion. Beyond the
physical suffering, we will not forget to consider his moral suffering. Indeed, his soul experienced fear as he
approached his Passion: “Now my being is in turmoil” (Jn 12:27); he experienced
sadness at the moment of his agony, going so far as to cry: “My soul is sad to
die”(Mt 26:38); he endured shame by being condemned to an infamous torture
between two robbers. He also endured the
mystical pain of his Father’s silence when he cried out: «My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?» (Mt 27:46)
In
applying our minds to the consideration of his unspeakable sufferings, we will
not forget to consider the heroic virtues that Jesus Christ manifested in these
circumstances: the love of his Father and the love of our souls, humility and
magnanimity, strength and meekness.
We
will not fail to see also the wonderful effects of his Passion. In fact, the whole liturgy embraces with one
glance the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord. His work of redemption does not end at his
death, but is prolonged in the victory of his resurrection.
“The
liturgy does not only want to be a lamentation of Christ’s death and a
compassion for his sufferings.” No, throughout this week, we hear the accent of
victory and joy. We see in the Passion
of Christ a transition that leads us to the glory of the Resurrection (…) There
is not a day in this whole week when we did not hear, in a clear and distinct way,
the themes of Easter and the songs of victory.
Let us think only of Palm Sunday with the royal tributes to the Lord, of
Holy Thursday with the solemn Mass of the Last Supper and the blessing of Holy
Oils, of Good Friday with the elevation of the cross as a sign of victory (…)
Palm Sunday is the monumental door that brings us into the holy mysteries of
Easter!” (Dom Pius Parsch, The Guide in the Liturgical Year, Salvator, 1939,
vol. III, pp.-6)
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