Holy Week

April 13, 2025

Holy Week is a week that brings us face-to-face with the great question- why must this happen? What is suffering all about? But deep down inside of us we already know what the life of Jesus and these first days of Holy Week confirm: there are some things worth living for, even if we find ourselves having to die for them as well.

Sister Joan Chittister

La Semana Santa es una semana que nos enfrenta a la gran pregunta: ¿por qué tiene que suceder esto? ¿Qué sentido tiene el sufrimiento? Pero en lo más profundo de nuestro ser ya sabemos lo que confirman la vida de Jesús y estos primeros días de la Semana Santa: hay cosas por las que vale la pena vivir, aunque tengamos que morir por ellas.

Hermana Joan Chittister

If we love God, we will undoubtedly love our neighbour also; they are as cause and effect.

Retreat Instructions, p.147

This is your life, joys and sorrow mingled, one succeeding the other.

Letter to Francis Warde

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will quickly show itself in the exterior.

Retreat Instructions, p. 145

May God bless the poor Sisters of Mercy and make them very humble that they may not be unworthy of the distinguished blessings God has bestowed upon them.

Letter to Elizabeth Moore

[God] knows I would rather be cold and hungry than the poor in Kingston or elsewhere should be deprived of any consolation in our power to afford.

Letter to Teresa White