Look at the picture. Holy Thursday night’s adoration space: After the evening Mass we linger to pray, doing what chosen apostles couldn’t do in Gethsemane. We traveled to other churches to keep this as a night of expectant prayer. Half an hour before midnight those seats were filled for Night Prayer, with some folks kneeling or sitting on the floor. We responded to the Church’s call to pray!

And we did it throughout the week. Palm Sunday, bearing our branches. Morning Prayer is beautifully attended and sung. Good Friday’s veneration of the cross. You kept showing up. It was Holy Week, after all.

What now? We didn’t experience Lent, Holy Week, and the Triduum just to revert to normal, did we? We wanted the Spirit to change us. There’s an old prayer that begins: “I believe, O Lord, but may I believe more firmly; I hope, but may I hope more securely; I love, but may I love more ardently; I sorrow, but may I sorrow more deeply.”

Everything we had in Holy Week, we still have. The Blessed Sacrament remains in our tabernacles. We offer adoration every Monday—along with confessions—from 5:30 to 7 p.m. St Boniface Church is open for private prayer daily until early evening. And we celebrate Mass every day in this parish. Let our Easter compel us to make every week, every day truly holy!