Holy Week

The Easter Triduum—Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday—is the heart of the Church’s liturgical year. In these three days, we walk with Christ from the Upper Room to Calvary to the empty tomb. The Church grows quiet and watchful. We are invited not simply to remember these events but to participate in them and to unite our lives, our sufferings, and our hopes to the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

On Spy Wednesday, we recall Judas’s betrayal: thirty pieces of silver in exchange for the Lord of glory. It is a sobering reminder of our own capacity to turn away from Christ. As we examine our hearts this week, we are invited to ask where we are called to deeper fidelity and how we can offer generous love in return.

Holy Thursday begins the sacred Triduum with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. We remember the institution of the Eucharist—Christ’s body and blood given for us—and his command to love through humble service, symbolized in the washing of feet.