Day: April 12, 2022

This is Holy Week, in the runup to Easter, it’s a week and a time when we can look back on the past number of weeks of Lent since Ash Wednesday and ask ourselves if we have done anything special by way of fasting or giving of alms or denying ourselves of any of the comforts of life for the honour and glory of God. At my time of life it is not easy to give up some favourite thing, so instead I’m inclined to make little sacrifices as I go along. No butter on my bread now and again, nor salt in my egg, things like that as the notion takes me. Saying a few more prayers, giving more to the poor and needy and it all helps to stave off any feeling of guilt as the weeks go by. But Holy Week is different, days when we think we are never doing enough to ease that inner voice which keeps telling us that we ought to do more, the feeling of guilt goes on every day. With the result that with so much emphasis on our longing for something, our feeling or appetite for it gets stronger, sometimes, if we’re to admit it, out of control and we devour the damn thing rather than to be looking at it.  Hopefully God loves the weak as well as the strong. Then Easter Sunday dawns and all the ties of Lent are loosed and we find that our longing for our favourite thing is easily satisfied after all and we wonder why didn’t we do more. It happens every time.

[read more …] “Eily’s Report – 12th April”