Hey, everybody. This is Father John Ricardo with Acts 29. And in the middle of all the craziness

and the uncertainty that's going on right now, it seems from our perspective as a team that it's

worth using these days to reflect in a more deliberate way on the scriptures every day, which

for many of us now is the only spiritual food that we're receiving. And so we're going to do a

special podcast series simply entitled, Be Not Afraid, God's Word in Uncertain Times. And we'll try to

post something every day, usually reflecting on the scriptures, so that we can listen in on what God

is trying to say to us in these days. Today is Saturday, March 27th, which means

tomorrow is the fifth Sunday of Lent. And with that in mind, I find myself today reflecting not so much

on the readings today at Mass, although they're very rich, to be sure, but I'm thinking more and more about

the days that are about to begin. If tomorrow's the fifth Sunday of Lent, then that means

next Sunday is Palm Sunday, and Palm Sunday, or Passion Sunday, is the beginning of Holy

Week, which is the single most important, momentous, and significant week in human history.

Now, usually most of us are trying to squeeze the celebrations in for Holy Thursday and

Good Friday and maybe the Easter vigil, if we're really feeling ambitious or Easter Sunday.

We're trying to squeeze them in in the midst of our crazy lives, school vacations,

our work.

Maybe some of us are probably not very attentive to what's going on at all.

But not this year.

Everything's different this year.

And all of us have time to prepare for this great week in a way that we never have before and so with that in mind i thought i'd try to just do two things today one is

i want to encourage you to check out a resource that I have found to be tremendously helpful for me.

I'm one of those people who loves to read, and oftentimes what I do is I just quote other people.

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