God created the world in six days and on the seventh day He rested. Holy Week began with Palm Sunday and culminates in our Lord’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The precise timing of the events surrounding the days of our Lord’s Passion follow a template that has been etched into the creation of the universe. And in this pattern there is no coincidence.

During the seven days of Holy Week, we are invited to contemplate something inexorably profound in the underlying interstices of our Lord’s Passion. And this is none other than the remaking of the spiritual fabric of our world and of our lives, and indeed that too of the entire universe, which was accomplished through the work of Redemption won for us by Jesus in His atoning sacrifice on the Cross. The reason for the necessity of this remaking was due to the stain of Original Sin – the reverberating effects of the sin committed in the Garden of Eden by our first parents Adam and Eve. While we can still feel the reverberating effects of this sin in our temporal life, the underlying spiritual fabric of that reality was forever changed when Jesus procured for us our Eternal Redemption at Calvary. Had Jesus not chosen to enter into our midst as both the Son of God and Son of Man in order to atone for our sins – the weight of Original Sin – the powers of darkness, death, and Hell would still have our souls in their grip and the fate of the world, the natural course of creation’s unfolding would be one of a never-ending and unbroken cycle of death and decay. Jesus Christ broke that cycle once and for all when He entered into our midst as Man both fully human and fully divine, the Son of God – the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity – taking on human likeness in everything except sin itself.

Hence on this day of Good Friday, we must endeavour to express our gratitude as people made and remade by God, who are Eternally grateful for what His Son Jesus had procured for us as He endured His Passion, thereby entering into the depths of our sin, despair, and brokeness in order to blot out the otherwise Eternal effects of our inherited iniquity from the Original Sin of our first parents. It was only the intrinsic nature of Jesus’ perfection as the Son of God, essentially as God Himself that could accomplish this for us as nothing else would suffice (on account of its temporal nature), to Eternally endure in reverberating this salvatory pattern throughout the entire Spiritual realm, as a perfect and everlasting sacrifice for us.

AMEN!