When our family watches movies or reads stories, sometimes the kids will get a little anxious.
It’s exciting. You don’t know what’s going to happen. There’s peril. There’s danger. Is the hero going to make it?
When that anxiety is starting to creep in and it’s not being fun anymore, my wife and I remind the kids: “The good guys always win.”
There’s a lesson here in how we see the Easter story.
The disciples didn’t know. The women at the tomb didn’t know. They experienced real fear. Real grief. Real loss.
For them, when Christ died, everything was over. All hope was lost. The dream was dead.
We get to watch the story knowing the ending. But what if we tried to watch it from their perspective?
Yes, the good guys win. We know that.
But maybe this Holy Week, we can enter into the story as if we’re experiencing it for the first time.
And when Easter comes—and it will come—we’ll understand more deeply what was won.
Let us pray.
Lord, help us enter into Your passion and death. And when Easter comes, let us celebrate with deeper understanding and greater joy. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
