Holy Week

I don't write about what happened today or yesterday very often, but this will be an exception. Since I am a good little Catholic, I have been immersed in Holy Week. On Tuesday, we took the Jr. High kids out to Red Rock for the Holy Week Hike. Admittedly, it was not a very religious or spiritual experience, but sometimes that's hard to do with Jr. High students. You take whatever you can get!

Yesterday was Good Friday, and we were involved in the dramatic presentation of the Stations of the Cross. Boy was it a labor of love this year! If so many of us didn't believe in it so much, it would have been very easy to have let it go. We had very little support and most of our set materials and props had been thrown out in a mad cleaning spree. There were a few moments when we thought it just wasn't going to happen this year, and if it did, no one was going to come. But, the Holy Spirit takes over when you most need it, and low and behold, it was wonderful. I am so proud of our work with the Stations. It really reminds me of what Christ the King used to be about: touching people and making them think about Jesus' sacrifice and how His love effects their lives. As the years have progressed, CTK has become more and more cerebral and PC and has lost the simplicity of our common human experience which centers around emotion and the love of Christ. You shouldn't have to be a liturgist or have a Masters in Theology to understand the point. Ok, off my soap box now... Back to my point; there is so little that I really believe in these days where the church (apart from my job, but that's another ministry for another topic!)is concerned, but Stations is the exception. It is amazing how people are touched through the story- the music, reading and drama only support it. It will always be the story that is the most important thing we have been entrusted with, and we have told it well. I am honored to be a part of it and look forward to its growth in the years to come.