.- In
his weekly pastoral letter, Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco of
Valencia, Spain, said that “what we relive in Holy Week always speaks
to our culture in its most profound roots,” adding that it has special
meaning in today’s world because of growing individualism present
throughout modern culture.
In his letter
the archbishop notes that the different celebrations and re-enactments
of Holy Week in churches and on the streets provide people the
opportunity to recall the overwhelming gesture of love of Jesus, the
Son of God, “who gave his life for us,” and to affirm that “the total
manifestation of God always puts forth a message of truth and love,
which is none other than the way to laying down one’s life for others.”
“Do you want to
see human fullness? Look upon him who loves to the point of giving up
his entire person. Do you want to find authentic greatness?
Contemplate him who chooses to humble himself to the extreme. Do
want to grasp the truth? Follow him who does not hold anything
back for himself. Do you want the highest freedom? Imitate
him who was not intimidated by aggressions or threats,” the archbishop
writes.
Archbishop
Garcia-Gasco also underscores in his letter that “showing the human
person his true dignity and his profound value is the central task of
the evangelizing action of the Church,” adding that this can be
achieved if people are challenged to live in such a way that conforms
to the desire of the human heart to love.
“To love is not
a heroic ideal just for the few, but rather the proper consequence of
discovering the truth and being transformed. One of the places
where we discover our most intimate identity, as men and women, is the
family,” he writes.
In concluding
his letter, the archbishop recalls that it was “the Son of God himself
who desired to have a family and experience upbringing and obedience to
show that all human reality, even from its most fragile and hidden
biological origins, is steeped in the wisdom and love of God.”
Holy Week speaks to culture in its most profound roots, says Spanish archbishop
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