A lot of times, I feel like non-catholics don’t quite get the Catholic fascination with Lent, and, by extension, the Holy Triduum. Jesus rose from the dead, after all. Why focus on the Passion when you can focus on the obviously “more important” event of the Resurrection? Right? As one of my Protestant friends once said, when discussing her aversion to the crucifix and why she didn’t feel the need to celebrate Jesus’s rather horrific death, “My Jesus came down from the cross.” Why exactly do Catholics feel the need to spend an entire three days meditating on the death of our Lord? Are we really that dark and sadistic? Do we enjoy pagan rituals and nighttime jaunts…