Everything depends on Jesus, his dying and rising life. Everything.
With a clear sense of who Jesus is—God most clearly revealed to us—and a
clear focus on what he has done for us through the cross and resurrection, we live now with a hope and confidence that cannot be undone.
Holy Week is the time in the Christian calendar when we pay closest attention to this part of the story.
In the same way, that the gospels slow down during Jesus' last week, helping us to notice every meaning-filled moment: we should not rush too quickly today. This is how God reverses death into life, despair into hope, violence into peace. And it does not come easily.