Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week, with the commemoration of the Lord's entry into Jerusalem we begin our journey to the cross and resurrection. Each year when we celebrate these mysteries new aspects of these days impress themselves upon us. At the end of the week, at the Sacred Triduum, we find a Liturgy which takes us into the very heart of the love of Father, Son, and Spirit. During these days we are not just remembering events of long ago, we are celebrating their effects in our own lives. We are being caught up into the life of the Trinity as seen in our fallen human world.
It is essential that we listen to what the Liturgy is actually saying to us during these days. We must resist the temptation to render our celebrations too accessible, too one-dimensional, too flat. There is a depth in these celebrations that we will never exhaust in our lifetime because they celebrate the life and death of the Son of God himself. We will never comprehend what we are celebrating, never make sense of it all, never understand it fully because here we are grappling with the deepest of all mysteries that of darkness and light, good and evil, life and death. We are not called to explain but to adore and be saved. 'Lord by your cross and resurrection you have set us free. You are the saviour of the world.'