WHAT’S OUR GOAL?

Composers and Spiritual writers often call Lent a journey, thus  we might ask what’s the destination? The answer is the Triduum, the three holiest days of our year as a community of faith. Lent ends on Holy Thursday evening at sunset, thus leaving us at the doorstep of the  Triduum  which  then  begins with  the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The Triduum isn’t just three days, but rather one continuous liturgy that takes place over the course of three days taking us from the supper table to the cross to the empty tomb. It is the annual celebration of the  Passover of the Lord, a remembrance of how Christ passed from life to death to new life again. The rites we participate in during these three days are the most ancient, sacred and memorable of the entire year and they require the 40 days of Lent as a proper preparation. The  Triduum not only enables us to accompany Christ but becomes our own passover too as having died to self through the penitential disciplines of Lent, we pass from death to new life with Christ in the Sacred Triduum.

So let us keep our eyes fixed on the goal as we proceed through the days of Lent realizing that this is also our ultimate goal resurrection and life with Christ.

Fr. Edward Healey