Today is Holy Thursday. 

Today is the day Christ gave himself up spiritually and physically for our sins.

As a Catholic, this is they day the Holy Eucharist came to be, in a sense.

I don't know if upset is the right word, but it has always seemed odd to me that today is not a Holy Day of Obligation. There is a certain heaviness to today and I always go back to the imagery portrayed in The Passion of the Christ of Jesus struggling in the garden the night of Holy Thursday. 

She Reads Truth has a wonderful devotional on "The Cup":

"Throughout the Old Testament, “the cup” is used as a metaphor for God’s judgment and His wrath, as in Isaiah 51:17: “You have drunk the cup of the Lord’s fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops” (NIV). So when Jesus prays about avoiding the cup, He’s fully aware of what He is about to do by going to the cross: He is drinking the cup of God’s wrath. Yes, He’s taking on the physical agony of the cross, but He is also taking on the spiritual agony of separation from His loving father. And that separation is the pain that is breaking Him down in the garden.

But without missing a beat, He prays on."

I think the final line of "He prays on" is a wonderful take away for not only Lent and Holy Week but life. I have a personal connection to Holy Week, and yes that sounds funny since this season is SO much bigger than me, and many of my friends know and are probably tired of hearing this story but I will always tell it every Lent. Junior year of college my mom gave me up for Lent, best thing she ever did. It brought us together and I fully believe is the reason we have the incredible relationship we now have. Holy Week symbolized the end of the journey we had gone through that Lent and a new beginning. And last week at Palm Sunday mass it was said "at the end of it all is the resurrection," not only for Christ but for us. The end of Lent and Easter should always be viewed as a new beginning whether for relationships or habits or routines. 

And that is why mom and I always say Happy Holy Week.