Days come and go so there is need to distinguish ordinary days from special days and finally holy days. Like this year's holy week. It is a holy week because:
* persons go out of their way to look deeper into their faith life;
* we try to use this week to experience Jesus in our lives;
* the week takes another perspective of what normally is just any day - it is a set of days that captures the passion,death and resurrection of our Savior, Jesus, the Christ;
* people pray it be holy not for the sake of Jesus but for Christians who ardently need to find the meaning of everything in life most especially the pains, sorrows, death that everyone experiences and should it be the end of the line, that it will find a transcendence that comes only from the Holy; and
* a short week for what is supposed for a lifetime so find during this week the gift of reflection and openness to what life is - after all - a life that makes every person feel the ambivalence of living: life vs. death.
In truth, Holy Week is not only this week but all the weeks of one's life that is always a challenge: to become holy or not is a continuous struggle. We pray for each other this Holy Week and in the other weeks that come our way. May this Holy Week then really be holy because even in our blogging we do not just communicate but we also pray for each other wherever we are.
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