Today, the whole country pauses to observe Good Friday.
Back when I was still spiritual, I have been solemnly scared of the Holy Week. It was so sobering for all the devout Catholics. Until now I see it as an exact opposite of Christmas, like the yin and the yang of the Christian calendar.
Christmas is about joys and the sharing of it. It is also about make-believe happiness, festivities and latent materialism. Everything in excess.
Holy Week is about sorrow and sacrifices. It is about pain and submission to pain. About silence through which we rediscover the foundations of faith. An act of giving up (as opposed to being in excess).
But both Holy Week and Christmas encourage the faithful to look beyond and within themselves. I think it’s called selflessness.
Something this world badly needs.
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