What makes Holy Week so… Holy?

This past Palm Sunday kicked off a week, to most Christians, that represents an important time in the life of the Church: Holy Week.  The week before Easter is a special time in which Christians remember the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Is this week holier than all others?  Well, yes and no.

Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and an executive editor of Christianity Today,  helps us understand this week in light of its “holiness”:

But what makes this week holy is something else. It is the fact that something happened back then and there, in space and in time, something so shattering that the grinding wheels of fate were stopped by it and death is now no longer allowed to have the final word… We are invited by this holiest day of Holy Week to believe beyond all doubt that… there is redemption in and beyond, though not apart from, suffering and pain, that decisions we make here and now can have consequences that will last forever, that time is a God-given opportunity to learn to love, and that love is the one thing we experience in time that remains in eternity.

I pray that as we enter into this Holy Week, you will discover the Christ event anew. From Maundy Thursday to Good Friday and to Easter, you will walk with Christ in his last days and discover his empty tomb. Then finally discovering the redemption that God offers through the resurrected Christ.

This special week is a way to experience the unusual nature of God’s work in his creation.