Day 1 of our Holy Week Retreat/Conference

We have entered into the most sacred of weeks in the Church. Today we remember the day our Lord entered into Jerusalem for the last time only to leave the city as a criminal carrying His cross to Golgotha to be crucified. In his letter to the Philippians, St. Paul spoke of Jesus’ self-emptying. This emptiness is not a feeling of loneliness, depression, or void. This act of emptying is the expression of God’s infinite love for us. This self-emptying then gives great meaning to what our Lord cried out from the cross, ‘My God, my God why have you abandoned me?” In this act of self-emptying, Jesus stood in solidarity with the human race, and took on our sins so that we may be filled with His Father’s love and mercy.