I have been reflecting on the days of Holy Week, however this year the Triduum (three days) have particularly arrested my attention.
Most of the time we jump in our focus from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday to Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Not much is made of Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and yet something changed in the atmosphere of Jerusalem between Palm Sunday and Thursday. The storm began to brood...
Being from Kansas almost guarantees you have the makings of an amateur meteorologist engrained in you. We look for the signs of the storm before it hits. This makes it easier for us to respond to the storm.
As we move into the Holy Triduum (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday) it is good to pause and meditate upon the portions of Scripture which describe how we reached this point and the people in the Scripture.
What was brooding:
--in the Pharisees to seek to kill Jesus?
--in Judas before he kissed Jesus?
--in John before he fled the garden?
--in Peter before he denied Jesus?
--in Pilate before he pronounced sentence?
