A Holy week reflection

My arm is in severe pain (actually, since I first wrote this down, even more so)! My foot always hurts. And, if you want to know why, go here, Help with medical bills.
But, as I write this, it's Palm Sunday. I'm familiar with the Passion Narrative, but, because of lack of room, I had to hang out in the vestibule. With a bunch of children.

Since the day after this goes live is the anniversary of my father's death, please check out these articles, What my father's death taught me about redemptive suffering, and this one, Thank you, Dad

Before we get started, please check out my previous article, I ain't afraid! and my latest on Locals, On my darkest day
I like children, but, autistic overload is a real thing.
Anyway, we're coming into Holy Week, and, indeed, it's already started. And during this time, when we focus on Our Lord's Passion, Death, and Resurrection, we need to reflect on what that means.
Some people talk about “being saved”. Now, I don't believe the view of a minority of Protestants (and it must be emphasized that it is a minority of Protestants, lest someone think this is the only, or even predominant, Protestant view), of “once saved, always saved” doctrine.
If someone were to ask me if I have been saved, I'd answer differently than if someone asked if I am saved.
If someone asks WHEN I was saved, the answer is 2,000 years ago when Jesus was on the cross.
“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and bowed his head, and gave up the ghost”,
(John 19:28-30)
“But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
(1 Corinthians 1:23-25).
*All verses from the King James Version

Adam Charles Hovey is the founder of the Catholicism, News, and Whatever community and the host of the weekly Bible study, Coffee and Christianity