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He is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!

"Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve; he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them. They were greatly pleased and agreed to give him money. So he consented and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them when no crowd was present."
-Luke 22:3-6

Holy Wednesday is the Wednesday of the Holy Week and the Wednesday before Easter Sunday. This is the day on which Judas betrayed Jesus to Sanhedrin and the day when Jesus was anointed at Bethany.

"Blind guides! For you are like whitewashed tombs --- beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness... snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?"

-Matthew 23:24-33

Holy Tuesday marks the important withering of the fig tree. On Holy Monday, when Jesus approached a fig tree, he found nothing on it but leaves. Seeing this, he cursed the fig tree, and the next day on Holy Tuesday, the fig tree was withered.

Brothers and sisters, as we contemplate and reflect today, let us remind ourselves of the purpose and meaning of Christ' sacrifice for the salvation of humanity. He sacrificed for one of us; and so, may we pursue the things that honor His sacrifice. May our striving of becoming inwardly and outwardly holy, pure, and righteous makes the Lord glorified.