{"podcast":{"title":"Holy Trinity Winchester Podcast","slug":"holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899","podcast_index_feed_id":7049899,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6021977/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3627be6e6fd267505d435813f91eadfe.jpg","author":"Jamie Franklin","episode_count":139,"summary":"Sermons and Messages from Holy Trinity Winchester holytrinitywinchester.substack.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T18:18:26.171961+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899"},"episode":{"title":"The Week of Weeks and the Transformation of Time","slug":"the-week-of-weeks-and-the-transformation-of-time","published_at":"2026-03-30T13:45:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/the-week-of-weeks-and-the-transformation-of-time","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-week-of-weeks-and-the-transformation-of-time--70998422","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70998422/37e753bbd2c5a61f5a58b5569790e090.mp3","summary":"The Transformation of TimeThe week of weeks begins today. But what exactly does it mean to be a Catholic Christian who observes the liturgical calendar? And what is the significance of Palm Sunday and Holy Week?To begin with, we must recognise that we have been inculcated into a certain view of time: the time of the secular. Secular time implies that all time is the same and that one event simply follows other. We are cut off from the seasons and their festive observances because of technology and advanced infrastructure and thus we experience our lives as a succession of moments that tragically lead to annihilation and death. We can fill time with pleasure or kill it with distraction, but it can hold no more meaning for us than this.But t’was not always so. The pagan world, into which Christianity was born, knew its own pattern of feasts and festivals as of course did the Jewish religion. This pattern was taken up by the Christian Church and transfigured in the light of the Gospel. We are its heirs. And we can keep the flame alive, even in the darkness of the surrounding culture.But we must recognise that there is no neutral view of time. Nor is there a neutral way to inhabit time. We are faced with a choice: secular time or Christian time.Christian time does not see things as one moment after other with the present slipping into the past and the future leading nowhere. It sees time as transfigured in the light of eternity. This is most obvious when we consider the story of the Incarnation, and of Christ’s death and resurrection. For, in these events, we see the eternal breaking into the midst of ordinary life and giving it an eternal meaning. Our everyday reality is transfigured. Nothing can be the same. Life is not just one thing after other. Rather, it is a journey…","meta_description":"The Transformation of TimeThe week of weeks begins today. But what exactly does it mean to be a Catholic Christian who observes the liturgical calendar? A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":749,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/episodes/the-week-of-weeks-and-the-transformation-of-time/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/the-week-of-weeks-and-the-transformation-of-time.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}