Holy Week
Everything about Holy Week is counter-intuitive, especially the opening scene – the King on the donkey.
This isn’t cute, or endearing, it’s cultural dynamite – no less so today than 2 millennia ago.
Who among us lives humbly – on purpose? Even spiritual pilgrimage is touted by the travel agent.
The Prayer Book sets out each of the Passion narratives to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.
It can be too much. But we need some gutsy reality.
Even those in our land who have been swamped by mighty waters or fires or loss of work or friends
or dignity, can be awakened through those Holy Week events. Jesus bears the unfairness,
injustice and betrayal, the pain, the abandonment, the spite that besets all us.
The King on the Donkey/the Fool on the Hill.
Our God turns all our loves and hates inside out and up-side down.
“Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Matthew 21:5
Let us pray for our neighbours in Papua New Guinea as they suffer the ravages of Covid.
Mothers’ Union is very active, campaigning against gender-based violence
and working for improved literacy and wider heath programmes.