During Holy Week the readings are taken from that part of the Book of Isaiah known as the Hymns of the Suffering Servant. These are four poems which speak of how the suffering servant brings about God’s plan for Israel. The Church found in those hymns an echo of the suffering of Jesus. They helped the Church to see how the Passion of the Lord was part of the larger plan of God in the world. Often in our lives we find it difficult to make sense of the suffering, the troubles, the difficulties we are going through. We can take a lesson from the experience of those first Christians and see what we are going through as part of something larger than the moment.
