Holy week
Holy Week is a roller-coaster ride from joy to sorrow.
When you are on a roller-coaster, perhaps at a fair or hurtling along in real life,
you hang on for dear life and Trust in the process.
You may be preparing for a wedding,
a funeral or watching a teen teetering on the brink of success or failure.
The Church from the first centuries relived this week:
let reading each of the gospel accounts
be some of your Holy Week building hope and confidence work.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9
The Parenting Programme in the Americas has been successful
in helping parents manage the roller-coaster of family relationships.
Now the programme is planned for the Cree nation in Canada.
May God bless all who go forward in faith, hope and love.