Holy Week, floating a balloon, and pray for my parents

The Tuesday Pillar Post

Hey everybody,

It’s Holy Week. 

“Christ on the Mount of Olives,” Caravaggio, 1605. public domain.

I was looking back this morning on Lent — on my plans for Lenten sacrifices, and the ways in which I failed to embrace them as I’d hoped. If you’re anything like me, this might be a tendency of yours too, in the early days of Holy Week.

Of course, Lent never r…