03/31/2026
Happy Holy Week! ✝️🐑👑🙌
Hosanna in the highest! The Paschal mysteries reveal the heart of our faith. How blessed we are as God’s people!
As we journey through this week, we remember that nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus fulfilled and transformed the old covenant—once marked by continual animal sacrifice—by offering Himself once and for all as the perfect sacrifice for sin.
Through His cross, He established a new covenant, uniting all believers—Jew and Gentile—through His redeeming love. His finished work, crowned by the resurrection, calls us to worship in spirit and truth. Sealed by the Spirit of God, we are adopted into the familial life and love of the Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who remains faithful even when we are not. By the same Spirit that raised Christ, we too are lifted up again and again, no matter how many times we fall.
In the Eucharist, His body and blood mingles with ours, marking us as partakers of this new covenant, and members of His divine family. This communion binds us together as His Church, the people of God, who, alongside a great cloud of witnesses across time and culture, form a people set apart—a nation of priests and Kings within God’s vast eternal Kingdom.
Baptized into Christ as Prophet, King and Priest, His life now lives in us and our governmental authority starts now. Indeed, abounding in grace and mercy, we share in Christ’s ministry : to proclaim the gospel, heal the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to the captives, give sight to the blind, and bring liberation to the oppressed. As the priesthood of believers, we must intercede in prayer for all that God puts on our hearts - for this is one of our most powerful governmental ministry callings and is key to God’s movement among us.
As people of the cross, we offer our lives as living sacrifices. What may seem like foolishness to the world is, to us, the power of God. Christ—our King and our brother—is the firstfruits of the resurrection, and the hope of glory living in us! In Him, we rise daily—dying to the old and becoming new—growing ever deeper in the mysteries of life in Him.
May this Holy Week draw us ever deeper into these paschal mysteries of liberation, redemption, and sacrifice as we walk together in “The Way”!
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Luke 9:23 If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Romans 6:6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever!. Amen.
