Homily | March 29, 2026 | Holy Week Starts In Your Heart (Episode 70)

Holy Week begins as something personal, not symbolic, because the Passion is not only about what happens to Jesus but what happens inside us. We face the hard truth of how quickly we can praise God and then push him away, and we decide whether we will walk with Christ all the way to the cross.
• the Palm Sunday turn from Hosanna to Crucify Him
• refusing to distance ourselves from the crowd
• Jesus seeing our inconsistency and coming anyway
• the cross as a deliberate and chosen act of love
• the question of staying close when it costs something
• Holy Week as something we enter, not watch
• a single line to carry all week: He didn’t turn back
I urge you to come on Holy Thursday, not just to see the washing of the feet, to hear about the Eucharist, where he gives himself to us. Come on, Good Friday. Don't avoid the cross. Stand right in front of it. Come to the vigil, not just celebrate Easter experience, but how we see the darkness breaking into the light. Or the light breaking into the darkness.

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