It's Palm Sunday weekend and to many of you non-believers/other-believers, it's the beginning to Holy Week, which will eventually lead up to Good Friday and then Easter Sunday. For most of the laymen out there, Holy Week is best characterized by the public holiday that everyone receives from Good Friday. Hardly anyone knows why that Friday is good (apart from the fact it's another long weekend). Day in day out, people awake to that new day. But to set aside some time to think and reflect, Good Friday is a day of mourning and there is nothing joyous to be jubilant about. It is good for we are alive, and only because the Lord is dead.

I know nobody wants to read such religious stuff but I've been doing a little self-reflection lately and I realized I'm regressing into a Sunday Catholic, one who holds on to his faith only on the weekends and whenever he needs the temporary "salvation" God can provide. That has to change.

I used to be so involved and passionate about these religious things and somehow, the worldly distractions have disrupted the connections that I had with religion and tore me apart from God. I go to bed most nights without saying my daily prayer, even during the Season of Lent, but what excuse is fatigue when Jesus selflessly let himself be crucified only to save us and not himself.

It's hard to comprehend the unconditional love that he exhibited because it's more than human. To put it logically, it's God-like. But that shouldn't stop me from trying to be like God. After all, we were all crafted in his image and likeness.

I need to do better than this.

Pray tell, can you do this?


Only with grace. God's grace.