{"id":6105,"date":"2022-04-10T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2022-04-10T20:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:22:15","slug":"a-message-for-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/a-message-for-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message for Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"With the celebration of Palm Sunday, we enter into the commemoration of the Passion, Death, and\r\nResurrection of our Lord Jesus. We enter this Holy Week by uniting ourselves to those who carry\r\ntheir heavy crosses and need to know that they are not alone. <!- wp:more --><!--more--> I\u2019m sure that some may be members\r\nof our own families. Some are friends while the most are not known personally to us. Yet the\r\noutstretched arms of Jesus on the cross inspire us to recognize ourselves as sisters and brothers to\r\none another. As we allow ourselves to be embraced by Jesus\u2019 love, we expand our hearts and\r\nembrace them all in sublime compassion.\r\nWe bring to the passion of Our Lord the people of Ukraine and all who are suffering from the horrors\r\nof war in their native lands.\r\nWe bring to the Lord\u2019s passion, all immigrants throughout the world. Those who flee from the\r\nviolence of war, injustice, poverty, violence, and the lack of opportunities. Those who leave and forsake everything known and cherished for the sake of a better chance in life. We bring their hopes\r\nand their sorrows to the suffering Lord.\r\nWe bring to the Lord\u2019s suffering all those who suffer in silence and whose sorrow is only known to\r\nthemselves. Those who are alone and feel lonely or abandoned. Those who have lost their closest\r\nfriends and closest loved one. Those who have no one to confide in and pour out their hearts to.\r\nWe bring to Jesus\u2019 suffering all the children of the world who are born into despairing poverty and\r\nwho know suffering from their very first breath. Those thousands of children that die daily from malnourishment and disease. Those children sold into slavery of every kind and whose innocence is\r\nrobbed from them by the evil that others have committed themselves to. Those children that do not\r\nknow happiness.\r\nWe bring to the cross all the suffering of humanity with the hope that Jesus offers us in His\r\nresurrection. May we approach the empty tomb with the desire and the resolve to do whatever we\r\ncan to empty this world of needless suffering. May we experience a deep conversion and be\r\nstrengthened in our resolve to make a good difference at the foot of our Savior\u2019s cross. May we\r\ncontemplate the reality that many continue to pay the price for standing up for those who need us.\r\nThem too we bring to the heart of Jesus as we realize that they practice what they believe.\r\nYou are in my prayers and in my heart.\r\nPeace. Friar Julio<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the celebration of Palm Sunday, we enter into the commemoration of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus. We enter this Holy Week by uniting ourselves to those who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-heart"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}