Holy Week prompts us to follow the path of Jesus

Holy Week is upon us.

It is a time when we fast with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggles in preparation for the sorrowful passion and joyful resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus told us that “unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. But if it dies it produces much fruit. The man who loves his life loses it, while the man who hates his life in this world preserves it to eternal life” (John 12:24). Similarly, unless we do penance and die to our earthly ways we cannot enter into heaven.