So this is it: The most important part of the calendar of remembrances in our church year.

Holy Week is the collection of days beginning with Palm Sunday and running through Easter Day. It encompasses triumph, betrayal, humility, Holy sharing, deep fear, painful suffering, death, and after all creation trembled there is resurrection.

The path we walk every year from the beginning to the end of Holy Week is a spiritual act of endurance. Can we really believe that all of this happened? Did Christ live and then die for our sins? Is the tomb empty on the third day? Could it be that God actually loves creation so much to do all these things?

If God does love us this much, what does that mean for our lives?

Even as we enter into these days together there is a part of living through Holy Week that each of us does on our own.

God is within us in our faith. It’s a relationship and God is present and active in our souls each in unique ways. There is a place in these days of Holy Week for us to listen to God, to learn what God wills, and to respond to God’s love with love.

I pray for us each to live into these coming days with humility and faith so that when the time comes we can stand together beside the empty tomb, rejoicing.

In Peace,

Fr. Chip