A 5th Sunday of Lent Thought About The Cross
The stark and brutal reality of Our Lord's Cross begins to come into sharper focus on this Fifth Sunday of Lent. In less than two weeks, Christians around the world will enter into the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It's time to both anticipate and make plans for Holy Week, now one week away. The traditional calendar of the Catholic Church calls this "Passion Sunday," the first Sunday of Passiontide. The tradition of covering statues in purple can still be observed as it once was for centuries (although this practice is rare these days). Doing so mortifies our sense of sight, helping us to focus in a more singular way on the events so dramatically and movingly captured in the Stations of the Cross. Whether your parish church covers statues or not, here's something written by Father Edward Leen that might help us all keep our hearts and minds where they should be during these waning days of Lent: “The Cross of Christ is not merely a re...