St Beuno's Outreach Weekly Reflection

‘Behold, your King is coming to you’

We begin our Holy Week Liturgies in a spirit of joyful jubilation, as we accompany Jesus our Servant King into Jerusalem (Entrance Gospel). The Hosannas and waving palms of an expectant people soon turn to jeers of violence and angry fists as we walk alongside Jesus through this most holy of weeks.

Now is the time for us to pay loving attention to the Passion, suffering and death that Jesus willingly entered into for our sake (Gospel). Never once condemning, but always and forever loving us, Jesus forgives us and heals us. This is the nature of his Kingship. God became fully human, to transform sin and human weakness. (Second Reading)

Isaiah’s song of the suffering servant (First Reading) foretells the manner in which Jesus will turn with courage and love towards those who betray and abuse him.

Jesus’s final prayer on the cross forms the opening words of today’s Psalm. Let us pray this text throughout this week as an offering of compassion and love for Christ, and for all who suffer with him.

‘Behold our King of compassion has truly come among us, come let us adore him, the Saviour of the world.’