Standing on the precipice of Holy Week, we have a sense of foreboding, a sense of anxiety, a sense of breaking relationships. We know what will happen and yet we need to follow the events through. It will not be easy. It is a story to both hear and live through. We must go through the events of Holy Week to get to resurrection!
Palm/Passion Sunday, April 1, will be an inter-generational experience of worship, full of the colors of Holy Week. From the deep green of the Triumphal Entry to the scarlet of death and crucifixion, we will experience waves of emotion and spiritual energy. We will experience this painful, familiar, well-worn story through the events recorded in Mark’s gospel as Mark presents the bare essential elements of Jesus’ last pre-crucifixion days.
Maundy Thursday, April 5, will be a 6:00 p.m. potluck, followed by communion worship. We will recall how Jesus shared a final meal with his followers the night before he was betrayed and crucified. We will remember what Jesus said and did and be challenged to be servants as Jesus was servant to all.
Good Friday, April 6, we will gather at 6:00 p.m. for light refreshments before a 6:30 p.m. showing of the movie The Passion of Christ in the sanctuary, sponsored by our nesting congregation, Mt. Calvary.
Sunday, April 8, the journey continues. After weeks of drawing near to Jerusalem, and a Holy Week filled with varied experiences of joy and betrayal, meal sharing and death, the dawning of this day brings a new and entirely unexpected situation. The tomb is empty! How can it be? What are we to make of it?
The colors and emotions of Holy Week are before us. We are blessed to walk through it with one another and with God. Walk in peace and be assured of God’s amazing love!
Shalom,
Candice
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