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Catholic Charities USA
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Readings of the Day
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"While waiting in anticipation of a joyful religious holiday, an
unseen danger grows in strength and power, threatening to take away
all that we hold most dear..."
Could this be an excerpt ripped out of today's headlines? Or is
it instead a synopsis of the situation that Jesus and his disciples
faced as they approached that very first Holy Week? It really could be
both!
When we began our Lenten journey, few could have predicted what the
world finds itself in today: confronting a dangerous, world-wide
pandemic, socially distanced, economically ravaged, stuck inside our
own homes - some of us by ourselves - in close proximity
to ongoing tragedy, feeling overwhelmed, helpless, and perhaps even at
times hopeless. Though we are only one week away from the Resurrection
joy of Easter, from where we stand today - both figuratively and
literally - we still have a long journey through Calvary before
we experience the hope of that first Easter morning.
In these scary, uncertain times, we are very much like those
companions of Jesus who accompanied him to Jerusalem during that first
Holy Week. They were undoubtedly unaware of the danger that lay just
ahead. As today's Gospel makes clear, Jesus' enemies
- frightened by his rising popularity and how the Roman
authorities would respond to it - resolved to eliminate the
threat by planning to kill him. Unbeknownst to the disciples, the road
on which they were walking would be marked with pain, uncertainty and
even death.
As we look ahead towards several months of social distancing, we are
in shoes similar to those of the disciples: unsure of what the future
holds for us both individually and collectively. Many of us -
including those who work in the Church's social mission -
journey forward whipped by winds of uncertainty and apprehension.
This particular Holy Week - prevented from coming together at
liturgies as we usually do - we have the opportunity to contemplate
the salvific mysteries of our faith in a brand new way: frightened,
confused, and unsure of where exactly God is in all of this. It would
be good to walk along with those first disciples of Jesus who, despite
witnessing the unimaginable suffering of the one they loved, never
lost hope or faith in God: a trust that was rewarded a hundredfold on
that first Easter morning.
Easter has always been a story of paradox: a death leading to abundant
life for all. In our current moment, we are witnessing another
life-affirming paradox: through distancing ourselves from one another,
we seem to be rediscovering the importance of community, togetherness,
and how much we mean to one another. Catholic Social Teaching has
always held up the importance of such social solidarity. But seeing
such life-affirming, life-sustaining action all over the globe should
give us hope that - despite what looks like a Calvary of a bleak few
months to come - we can together strive as an Easter people to build a
just future better than the past we have left behind.
Tom Dobbins Jr. is the Justice and Peace Coordinator of Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, a Producer for the
"JustLove" radio broadcast on Sirius/XM's Catholic
Channel, and Chair Emeritus of the Roundtable Association of Catholic
Diocesan Social Action Directors.
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