We all have our own way of preparing for Easter.  If you find it difficult to reflect this year I share what our pastor mentioned in his sermon this Passion Sunday.  We all, at times, cry to God, “My God, why have you abandoned me!”   It’s Psalm 22:2.   Towards the end of the psalm it reads, “I will offer praise in the great assembly; my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.”  Psalm 22:26

Jesus Christ, ever faithful, ever hopeful.  Read Psalm 22 in its entirety.  Reflect on it.  As you struggle, try to model your life after it.  You will find strength.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/22

Picture is by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1485-1547; public domain on Wikimedia