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What is Holy Week?

It’s a wonderful season packed to the brim with meaningful ceremonies that bring us to reflect on the mystery of God’s love. Yet we truck from ceremony to ceremony to family lunches and then wrangle over-sugared and overtired children into bed with an exhausted sigh of relief… Is it any wonder that the reverence and wonder of the week is often lost?

Easter can also make us uncomfortable for another reason. In a feel-good culture we don’t like to acknowledge our sinfulness. We’d rather believe that our weaknesses are acceptable. But this is the whole point of Christianity. Regardless of how small, our sins are the reason Easter happened. Every. Single. Little. One.

Easter is the time after 40 days, (hopefully) of a new spiritual discipline, to evaluate and meditate on our own imperfections and stand in awe of the radical love of God who died to set us free. It’s an awe-inspiring mystery. (Source https://cathfamily.org/holy-week-explained/)

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Holy Week gives us the opportunity to reenact, relive, and participate in the passion of Jesus Christ. It begins with Palm Sunday (March 24th) and ends with what is called the "Easter Triduum". Triduum (yes, it has two "u"s) is Latin for "the period of three days" and includes the evening of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ending on Easter Sunday.