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A week of little deaths, that\u2019s what Holy Week is for us, and I think I understand why the Orthodox Church calls the season of Lent the\u00a0Bright Sadness.<\/em>Celebration and mourning take turns to stir deep places, and eyes are opened to the truth that we cannot follow Christ and remain unchanged.<\/p>\n

During Lent I want to burrow away\u2014hide in books and words and prayer. But I know on this journey\u2014especially in this last week\u2014I will need these people. I need these people who stand beside me now lifting the leafy fingers of palm fronds. I need to clasp their hands tight and enter into this with strong arms holding me. For\u2026am I not the one who\u2014after waving these palms in exultation\u2014will so quickly turn in anger? Am I not the one who will deny and betray the Lover of My Soul? We enter into Holy Week knowing the end of the story\u2014the great joy of reconciliation. Yet we also know there is no way to Sunday except through Good Friday. There is nothing for it except the walking through.<\/p>\n

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