“The eyes of all hope for You, and You give them their food in due time” (Psalm 145:15). These words of faith and hope in the Psalm express the sense of our entire being. They connect us with God and make us aware of our faith. They express a faithful person’s honest expectations and readiness to assume responsibilities. “The eyes of all hope for You.” Our minds and hearts look to You, O Lord, our God. This Holy Week will be sanctified in our spiritual life as the “Holy Week” of Your Only Begotten Son, who descended from heaven to earth to illuminate the entire world and to lift up humanity towards You, O Almighty God.
Our eyes look to You, O Lord, and our hope is in You, O Christ our Lord, because by walking with you in your path of light, the life of those who believe in You are transformed. Our eyes hope in You, O Lord, because you provide us spiritual nourishment abundantly as the “bread of life.”
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, let us dedicate ourselves completely to God to be worthy to celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection. Let us vow to live with Christ and like Christ. The more we become in touch with our deeper soul through prayer and spiritual readings, the closer we become to God, the Creator of all. Even more, through our renewed life, we become the bearers of God’s love; and through heavenly wisdom granted to us, we prepare our souls as a place where God can reside.
As Christian believers we should live our lives by walking along Christ, so that our lives on this earth are illuminated and blessed. And if for even a moment we lose our pace with Christ, we stop being a spiritual channel in the life of society.
The journey of the Holy Week is nothing else but the way to God. The images from Christ’s life presented to us during the Holy Week reveal the most significant lessons of life.
Palm Sunday, the triumphant entry of Christ into the Holy City of Jerusalem, represents an image of our soul. Even as spiritually we open our soul before Christ with Hosannas and received him as a king in our life, at times we fall down from this spiritual height into materialism, the world of materials, forgetting the Lord’s command that “It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh counts for nothing” (John 6:63).
The most essential stations of the Holy Week’s spiritual journey are the services marking the Last Supper, the Washing of the Feet, the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, which lead up to the celebration of Christ’s magnificent Resurrection. By partaking in these events in Christ’s life, our lives are renewed, illuminated and transformed. We reject the hardened, old person in us and become a new person in and through Christ.
The various aspects of Christ’s life during the Holy Week have definite message and meaning for us. Christ shows us the greatest example of humility by washing the feet of his disciples. He becomes the ultimate sacrifice for the salvation of the world as seen in the Last Supper. Christ triumphs over death through His death and Resurrection, on Easter Sunday.
Indeed, with the words of the Psalm, let our eyes look to the Lord for home, because He gives us our food in due time.
Archbishop Hovnan Derderian
Primate
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