Scripture shouts our own fickleness as humans—our own human tendency to go from declarations of praise to pronouncements of deception. When we take our time to walk slowly through the week called ‘holy’, we must see ourselves: we are happy to cry ‘Hosanna!’ as long as the King meets our needs, our perceptions of what is good and right and best for ‘us.’ When he falls short of our expectations, we cry, ‘Crucify him!’
This week called holy brings us face to face with humanity… who am I in the story? … Am I perpetrator or victim? Am I Pharisee or disciple? If I am disciple, am I Judas or Peter? When am I Pilate, washing my hands of the trouble making Jesus? And when am I Simon of Cyrene, willing to carry the Savior’s cross for a few steps?
Woe to us this week. Woe to us, the people called Christians, if we fail to slow down and examine our hearts, our attitudes, our actions… . Woe to us if we dash to Easter and fail to walk this way of the cross through the Passion of our Lord.
Elizabeth Sausele,
Buhoro, Buhoro: Step by Step Slowly Through Holy Week
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