Holy Week is a risky business. It contains some of the strangest traditions of our faith and some of the most meaningful. We never emerge from Holy Week the same as how we entered.
When our routines are disrupted or ended, it’s a difficult thing. When routines we enjoy, appreciate and love are suddenly taken from us by circumstances beyond our control it’s more than difficult. It’s a deeply-felt loss and something that we grieve.
“One often gets the impression today that the liturgy is perceived more as a problem to be solved than as a source of life.” Whether one thinks of the liturgy as problematic or not, it is true that the Church intends its liturgical celebrations to be life-giving.