HOLY WEEK
This Sunday is Palm Sunday which marks the beginning of Holy Week. Holy Week is a very sacred time of the year, for it is during this week that we will commemorate and remember the last week of Jesus' life on this earth. The greatest focus of the week is the suffering and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the events that led up to it.

Throughout the world, faithful communities will gather this weekend, to remember the significance of Jesus’ decision to return to Jerusalem. This was for Jesus, a deliberate choice to enter the Holy City, knowing that this would mark the beginning of His suffering, passion and ultimate death. Jesus surrenders with confidence to God’s never-failing love. In the life and death of Jesus we see the way God honoured and reverenced the trust and surrender of Jesus. God journeyed with him, strengthening, affirming, guiding and living in him. So, as we begin our journey through Holy Week let us be aware of the trust and surrender of Jesus into God’s unconditional love, and how that faith and reliance was met with such constant love as to give hope and bring about what was considered impossible. Let us remember also, that the story of Jesus does not end with the resurrection, rather it continues in our lives and is seen and felt when we make love present and possible, when we trust in the unconditional love of God and shape our lives in that hope.

Let us pray - 

God of infinite love,                                                                                       

May we by our faithful remembrance of Jesus’ passion,                                         Be drawn ever more deeply into the mystery of your generous love. We make this prayer through Jesus your Son, who reigns as our eternal King. Amen

Each year the McAuley community gather to remember the events in Holy Week. This year we commemorated this special week through a symbolic journey of the Stations of the Cross. 

 A Lenten Prayer

By Mother Theresa

It Is Between You And God

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and

self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish,

ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win

some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.

Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people

may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy

overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.

Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often

be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It

was never between you and them anyway.

Amen