Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. We are quickly approaching the climax of Lent, the climax of the whole liturgical year.

It is Holy Week starting here this upcoming Sunday and I want to prepare you

spiritually for this week of all weeks I'm going to take you into the

spirituality of Holy Week by bringing you in to Christ's passion.

But I have to admit, it's going to be a little hard.

You know, because, man, this Lent has just been in Lent of all Lent all lengths to remember right every day we've been bombard especially the last few weeks

with so much and I feel like Lent has been thrown upon us maybe at least that's how I feel you know maybe as opposed to entering into Lent it's just been kind of forced upon me in a whole new way

But every day we can be really distracted from the Linton season by turning to the latest news, the latest

presidential press conference, what new restriction is out there and what's the death toll

and where is it going next and then we could spend a lot of time watching the news and social media and it just you know just takes over all of our conversations but if that's where we're spending our time that will not give us peace.

And I think Jesus is inviting us here as we're getting ready for Holy Week

to put our attention on him, to keep our eyes focused on him and especially on his passion.

And so that's what I want to do in this week's show. I want to invite you to join me

for just a few minutes and unplug from all that's going out there

with the C word that virus that's out there and it's real and and there's a big problem

and we need to be concerned about it don't get me wrong wrong, but we can't approach this with a secular

mindset, which is just solving it from a human perspective.

We've got to keep our eyes on Jesus.

And this is just true every year, especially during Holy Week.

We should be focused on Christ's passion, but especially this week, so would you

join me in just focusing on Jesus for a little bit? I'll say a few words at the end, particularly from Pope Francis

and his very moving exhortation that he gave from St. Peter's last Friday in that extraordinary

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