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Dear Parish Faithful,
HOLY WEEK - Tuesday
“Come, O faithful, let us work zealously for the Master...”
(Sung with Aposticha at Matins and Vespers on Holy Tuesday)
During Holy Week, our penitence is brought to a high level of intensity, at a dosage that we cannot tolerate for long. But here we are pushed to our limits, because our Lord himself, the King of Glory, who made the heavens and the earth, is on his way to being betrayed, abandoned, and slaughtered. Matters do not get any more serious than that, so we have to make sure we are paying full attention....
The hymn encourages us to goad each other to work zealously: Don’t almost do something; don’t just think about doing it, don’t do it in a half-baked way. Do it, and do it well, for the sake of God.
—Dr Peter C. Bouteneff, “A Hymn of Invitation,” in Holy Week: A Series of Meditations
