Reflections on a Holy Week

Lent - ( Holy Tuesday) the entire Christendom come together this week in observance prayer, fasting and almsgiving, to a standstill , to veer away from everyday things, to reflect on himself, his God and his relationship with God.

St. Paul says the whole purpose of living is to have time to repent, to be converted and to change. As far as we know everything that lives or is alive is always changing and growing, when a thing is not then its dead. The trouble with change is its not an easy thing to do. And there can be no change unless we want to. I think most of us humans are afraid of change, but this fear is the biggest obstacle.

Change means giving up things that we are attached to and trying unknown fields. When we change its an admission that theres something amiss, that we need to grow, that we might have realized we made a wrong decision or what we have been doing is not good or is not working. But the saddest things is someone who thinks he does not need to change ironically .. those who do think this way are the ones who might need it the most.

Basically Lent is conversion, and conversion is turning away from illusory dried up wells that do not give life, its turning to God, who is our true fountain of love and abundant life.

Mortification is a word we hear during this season, came from the Latin word Mortificare, to deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. especially by abstinence or self-denial or sarifice or discomfort. Fasting and abstinence is a must, not to torture us but its main purpose of all fasting and all self denying is to remind us that there is a source of life more profound than food and drink or anything created in this earth and that is God.