Holy Week is here and for a largely Catholic country like Philippines, it means a shortened work week, participating in Catholic rituals like Visita Iglesia, sitting through The Seven Last Words, and ending of our Lenten sacrifice.
It also means pondering the meaning of words like "Maundy," why Easter isn't like Christmas with a set date, and why Monday-Wednesday of Holy Week don't have special, erm, names.
The "mandatum" comes when he exhorts his disciples whose feet he washed: "If I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, so you must also wash one another's feet." It's a missioning that they follow Jesus' brand of leadership - true diakonia. Holy Week begins with the joyous Palm Sunday — Jerusalem's warm welcome for Jesus. But then it turns pretty tragic. When and why did the tides turn?
Before it turns tragic though, we go through Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday that don't have special monikers unlike the remainder of the week. Why? The Old Testament readings at Mass on these days are from the Prophet Isaiah, and the Three Servant Songs, respectively.
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