Holy week
It’s not easy observing Holy Week in Australia in March.
The divine weather in Adelaide lures us outside with calm and sunny days,
calm and warm evenings, the Festival etc. Up north, floods ravage the land, bushfires
on the west and east coasts have left destruction.
Pleasure and pain, personal and communal, leave no time or inclination for Devotion.
Charles Williams, a contemporary of CS Lewis, advocated the bearing of one another’s burdens.
Let us who can, serve others with prayer, reading, washing feet, reliving the Great Days until the joy of Easter.
… the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:28
Mothers Union members live to serve as Jesus served: tending the poor and oppressed,
binding up the broken in body, mind and spirit. May each member take time during
Holy Week to consider their motives and intentions,
look earnestly at their way of life and resolve to serve rather than be served.
